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chloefrizzle
This is a YA romcom, and I'm happy to say that it is teen appropriate, and that the characters act their age but don't get annoyingly immature about it.
The thing that I loved the most about this book is that it's very Dungeons & Dragons. Our characters play D&D, and they are constantly referencing it.
I found it hard to love this book. The characters were so full of life and fun, but the book was lacking conflict for most of it. Jude, our protagonist, has everything go his way. There aren't external stakes, or internal conflict for him. It isn't until very late in the book that we start getting any sort of conflict, and by then I was annoyed at the book and bored.
Jude is also seriously lacking Main Character Energy. When the plot is turning, it's not because Jude is making it happen. Things are always just happening to him, and he goes along with them. It makes it hard to root for him when he's not really making decisions or plans. When he gets a setback, he just wallows in it until something else happens in the plot. He doesn't try to solve it or change his circumstances.
The book includes comic panels, which is fun! It's a story that Jude is drawing. The corresponding audiobook portions have sound effects and background music. It's well produced and immersive.
Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.
The thing that I loved the most about this book is that it's very Dungeons & Dragons. Our characters play D&D, and they are constantly referencing it.
I found it hard to love this book. The characters were so full of life and fun, but the book was lacking conflict for most of it. Jude, our protagonist, has everything go his way. There aren't external stakes, or internal conflict for him. It isn't until very late in the book that we start getting any sort of conflict, and by then I was annoyed at the book and bored.
Jude is also seriously lacking Main Character Energy. When the plot is turning, it's not because Jude is making it happen. Things are always just happening to him, and he goes along with them. It makes it hard to root for him when he's not really making decisions or plans. When he gets a setback, he just wallows in it until something else happens in the plot. He doesn't try to solve it or change his circumstances.
The book includes comic panels, which is fun! It's a story that Jude is drawing. The corresponding audiobook portions have sound effects and background music. It's well produced and immersive.
Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.
Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf Volume One
Jordan Gunderson, Jenny Frison, Todd Herman, Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence
Bungling exposition, flat emotionally, and how dare they draw Charles not handsomely. But it's readable.
There is an easy way to tell if you'll like this book or not:
DO YOU LOVE MYTHBUSTERS?
If the answer is yes, you should read this book. Because that's the only complaint that people have about it: that it's too science experimenty. Everything else is perfectly paced, funny, and action packed.
DO YOU LOVE MYTHBUSTERS?
If the answer is yes, you should read this book. Because that's the only complaint that people have about it: that it's too science experimenty. Everything else is perfectly paced, funny, and action packed.
And now I'm hooked back into this series
Solid. Fun. I was kind of hoping for more after the awesome first book.
I think the reason I'm so bored with this series is that it is structured so that the protagonist is always dealing with other people's problems, not her own.
DNF @ 35%
DNF @ 35%