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The Book Of Cin
by H.M. Wolfe
The Book of Cin by H.M. Wolfe
Thats it. Im calling it. Time of death, 41% after 4 days of trying.
I honestly can’t tell if I’m not vibing with this book as a whole or if I’m not vibing with this book right now. But either way, it’s turned me into a hypercritical little gremlin, and I’m just not in the mood to fight my way through it.
What can I say. I literally picked this book with zero information beforehand, purely because the next book in the series has a pretty cover. Not this book. The next book. If that isn’t the stupidest fucking logic you’ve ever heard… but here we are. Embrace your chaos TBR, man. Live a little. Sometimes it lands. Sometimes it doesn’t.
This book definitely has potential, and there’s absolutely an audience for it. I’m just not that audience.
Right off the bat, the naming conventions threw me. They felt extremely juvenile, like someone’s first crack at worldbuilding with a middle school notebook. I cringed internally every time certain city names popped up. And for some reason, the author is deeply obsessed with the letter A in character names to the point where everyone just kind of blurred together into one indistinguishable blob of A names.
Cin, our FMC, is… weak. I mean that in every sense of the word. Weakly written, weakly motivated, weakly developed. Just weak. This book isn’t technically YA, but it really really should have been. As much as I want to cheer for the rare FMC who isn’t barely legal, she still read like a high school sophomore fumbling her way through a group project. The story would have been better served leaning into that and fully committing to a YA identity instead of trying to hang with the NA and adult crowd.
There’s potential here, I’ll give it that. I can see the bones of something bigger and better underneath all my personal gripes. There’s absolutely a crowd that’s going to eat this up. But for me, the struggle to get past my hangups turned into me avoiding reading altogether, which is never a good sign.
Give it a shot and decide for yourself. My voice is just one in the crowd, and plenty of others really enjoyed this book. Sometimes the chaos TBR hits gold, and sometimes you just gotta laugh and move on to the next pretty cover.
Thats it. Im calling it. Time of death, 41% after 4 days of trying.
I honestly can’t tell if I’m not vibing with this book as a whole or if I’m not vibing with this book right now. But either way, it’s turned me into a hypercritical little gremlin, and I’m just not in the mood to fight my way through it.
What can I say. I literally picked this book with zero information beforehand, purely because the next book in the series has a pretty cover. Not this book. The next book. If that isn’t the stupidest fucking logic you’ve ever heard… but here we are. Embrace your chaos TBR, man. Live a little. Sometimes it lands. Sometimes it doesn’t.
This book definitely has potential, and there’s absolutely an audience for it. I’m just not that audience.
Right off the bat, the naming conventions threw me. They felt extremely juvenile, like someone’s first crack at worldbuilding with a middle school notebook. I cringed internally every time certain city names popped up. And for some reason, the author is deeply obsessed with the letter A in character names to the point where everyone just kind of blurred together into one indistinguishable blob of A names.
Cin, our FMC, is… weak. I mean that in every sense of the word. Weakly written, weakly motivated, weakly developed. Just weak. This book isn’t technically YA, but it really really should have been. As much as I want to cheer for the rare FMC who isn’t barely legal, she still read like a high school sophomore fumbling her way through a group project. The story would have been better served leaning into that and fully committing to a YA identity instead of trying to hang with the NA and adult crowd.
There’s potential here, I’ll give it that. I can see the bones of something bigger and better underneath all my personal gripes. There’s absolutely a crowd that’s going to eat this up. But for me, the struggle to get past my hangups turned into me avoiding reading altogether, which is never a good sign.
Give it a shot and decide for yourself. My voice is just one in the crowd, and plenty of others really enjoyed this book. Sometimes the chaos TBR hits gold, and sometimes you just gotta laugh and move on to the next pretty cover.