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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I really really really wanted to like this book. However, I am DNF'ing at 41%. I'm still giving it 3 stars though, because the world is really interesting and the plot seems like it will be great. The issue is that the pacing is too slow for me, and I can't retain interest in the book to continue reading it. It was making me start to resent the book. A negative here is that there are too many characters at hand, so I was also really struggling to understand what was going on. This is probably a fantastic pirate MG, but, for those reasons I had to DNF.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I really really really wanted to like this book. However, I am DNF'ing at 41%. I'm still giving it 3 stars though, because the world is really interesting and the plot seems like it will be great. The issue is that the pacing is too slow for me, and I can't retain interest in the book to continue reading it. It was making me start to resent the book. A negative here is that there are too many characters at hand, so I was also really struggling to understand what was going on. This is probably a fantastic pirate MG, but, for those reasons I had to DNF.
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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
You go into this book expecting it to be the love story of Aris and Metis- but it is truly this overarching love story that has spanned the entirety of tabula rasa. For a standalone book, Dahlan does an incredible job of giving us the answers to most of our questions, even down to explaining what brought about Tabula Rasa in the first place and who the creator really was, and his motivations. Their story was really mind-blowing and I think that if Dahlan wanted to write anything else in this universe, writing about them would be a fantastic choice.
I think this book would be a good read for people who enjoyed Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind. It has the same concept of true love bringing people back to their memories, without the toxicity of manic pixie dream girls and their male counterparts. I gave this book a solid 4 out of 5 stars. The only reason that it lost a star is that some of the logic was lost with regards to the memories and how they are pulled from people- as well as the dreams. I felt a little confused over reality and how it fit into this story at times, and that is the only thing keeping it from being 5 stars for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
You go into this book expecting it to be the love story of Aris and Metis- but it is truly this overarching love story that has spanned the entirety of tabula rasa. For a standalone book, Dahlan does an incredible job of giving us the answers to most of our questions, even down to explaining what brought about Tabula Rasa in the first place and who the creator really was, and his motivations. Their story was really mind-blowing and I think that if Dahlan wanted to write anything else in this universe, writing about them would be a fantastic choice.
I think this book would be a good read for people who enjoyed Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind. It has the same concept of true love bringing people back to their memories, without the toxicity of manic pixie dream girls and their male counterparts. I gave this book a solid 4 out of 5 stars. The only reason that it lost a star is that some of the logic was lost with regards to the memories and how they are pulled from people- as well as the dreams. I felt a little confused over reality and how it fit into this story at times, and that is the only thing keeping it from being 5 stars for me.