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A review by mcgbreads
A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan
Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.
ARC review; thank you to NetGalley, Wave Walker Press, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles for the access to this ebook!
I gave this a good chance before I decided that I just couldn't commit to finishing a book that's this long if I'm not enjoying it at all. It's not for me, but I do encourage people who are interested in it to give it a shot because I think that the premise is good, I just don't like the writing style (it's so unnecessarily descriptive) and the structure of the story is not engaging to me.
The plot follows Audra, a storyteller who lost her purpose when all stories in her land lost their endings. She flees her home and finds herself in a new city where she meets Jaik, a farmhand with a talent for reviving stories. Together they go on a quest to bring back the power of stories and it goes from there.
That's a good premise and I was so excited to get into this, but my issue with the structure is that the story keeps getting interrupted by other stories and you already know they won't have an ending because it's established at the very beginning that's the issue that needs solving, so they just felt like a waste of time to me as a reader.
Does it make sense given what the book is about? Absolutely. Should it have been done so often? Absolutely not. When I know I'm reading something that's not moving the plot along whatsoever and I'm forced to do it often, I just can't do it. Moreover, I read 23% of this and I couldn't tell you why I should care about what was happening.
I really did try to push myself to get through it, but I can't, it feels too much like a chore. I hope this book finds its readers, I'm sadly not one of them.
I gave this a good chance before I decided that I just couldn't commit to finishing a book that's this long if I'm not enjoying it at all. It's not for me, but I do encourage people who are interested in it to give it a shot because I think that the premise is good, I just don't like the writing style (it's so unnecessarily descriptive) and the structure of the story is not engaging to me.
The plot follows Audra, a storyteller who lost her purpose when all stories in her land lost their endings. She flees her home and finds herself in a new city where she meets Jaik, a farmhand with a talent for reviving stories. Together they go on a quest to bring back the power of stories and it goes from there.
That's a good premise and I was so excited to get into this, but my issue with the structure is that the story keeps getting interrupted by other stories and you already know they won't have an ending because it's established at the very beginning that's the issue that needs solving, so they just felt like a waste of time to me as a reader.
Does it make sense given what the book is about? Absolutely. Should it have been done so often? Absolutely not. When I know I'm reading something that's not moving the plot along whatsoever and I'm forced to do it often, I just can't do it. Moreover, I read 23% of this and I couldn't tell you why I should care about what was happening.
I really did try to push myself to get through it, but I can't, it feels too much like a chore. I hope this book finds its readers, I'm sadly not one of them.