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A review by mcgbreads
The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.
ARC review; thanks to NetGalley, Hodder & Stoughton, Hodderscape, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Del Rey for the access to the ebook.
You know when you start a book and right away you get the feeling that you're not going to like it? That's what happened with this one and it was a bummer because I loved the cover and I loved the description.
Sadly, I disliked the writing style and tone immediately, but I kept going. Then, when we're introduced to characters who are immortal and hundreds of years old, but they act like teenagers, I knew this book just wasn't for me.
They're given these rich stories as backgrounds; one is the god of trickery and the other is a being that eats men's livers, but the way they speak and act doesn't match that at all because the author, for some reason, made them sound like modern-day teenagers. The "banter" was weak as well and, overall, I just didn't care for this at all.
It felt like the author had good ideas but kinda ruined them in trying to get the story to fit popular tropes. In my opinion, of course. I see a lot of people loving this and that's great, I wanted to be in that group.
You know when you start a book and right away you get the feeling that you're not going to like it? That's what happened with this one and it was a bummer because I loved the cover and I loved the description.
Sadly, I disliked the writing style and tone immediately, but I kept going. Then, when we're introduced to characters who are immortal and hundreds of years old, but they act like teenagers, I knew this book just wasn't for me.
They're given these rich stories as backgrounds; one is the god of trickery and the other is a being that eats men's livers, but the way they speak and act doesn't match that at all because the author, for some reason, made them sound like modern-day teenagers. The "banter" was weak as well and, overall, I just didn't care for this at all.
It felt like the author had good ideas but kinda ruined them in trying to get the story to fit popular tropes. In my opinion, of course. I see a lot of people loving this and that's great, I wanted to be in that group.