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phoenix2's review against another edition
2.0
What Became of Magic is a fantasy book about witches, magic, and a mystical place where everything comes together.
The book has an interesting new world that it introduces. From the magic system, to the magical creatures, everything was interesting to discover and read.
In addition, the start of the story was solid, with the main character being endearing and tragic at the same time.
However, the book started focusing and relaying on the destined, written-in-the-stars love. Surely, this is a me thing, as I don't enjoy that kind of love stories, especially since it felt like instant love, as they didn't really have any on-page previous moments together. Thus, the pace of the love story was all over the place, and being that into each other from the start didn't make sense to me. Also, the story focuses too much on the main couple's dynamics and their love to resolve almost anything.
Moreover, the progress of the story was not as enjoyable, with most of the characters talking in riddles, and the mystery solving resembling a video game rather than an epic story.
Nevertheless, the writing was enjoyable and had many whimsical moments.
The book has an interesting new world that it introduces. From the magic system, to the magical creatures, everything was interesting to discover and read.
In addition, the start of the story was solid, with the main character being endearing and tragic at the same time.
However, the book started focusing and relaying on the destined, written-in-the-stars love. Surely, this is a me thing, as I don't enjoy that kind of love stories, especially since it felt like instant love, as they didn't really have any on-page previous moments together. Thus, the pace of the love story was all over the place, and being that into each other from the start didn't make sense to me. Also, the story focuses too much on the main couple's dynamics and their love to resolve almost anything.
Moreover, the progress of the story was not as enjoyable, with most of the characters talking in riddles, and the mystery solving resembling a video game rather than an epic story.
Nevertheless, the writing was enjoyable and had many whimsical moments.
gingernutpup's review against another edition
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Interesting idea. But way too boring and a convoluted storyline that didn't make much sense. I also felt like the character should have just done some therapy if she was still having issues in her 30s over a middle school sleepover that went badly! I wouldn't recommend this book to others.
kylapatt's review against another edition
Liked the introduction to the main character Aline and found it cool/interesting with the concept with her powers helping souls pass on . It just was taking to long to get to the point of events and scenes even though it was showing past of Aline but just was not getting to present day fast enough. I just did not like where it was going and the book lulled out.
cobaltbookshelf's review against another edition
3.0
This book was not what I expected but was entertaining. I liked the premise of the story, but I felt like it never fulfilled the promise that was there. I wanted something that was more emotional. Overall,What Became of Magic is a cozy and entertaining magical story.
A special thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press & Wednesday Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
A special thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press & Wednesday Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
okevamae's review against another edition
2.0
DNF at about 40%.
This one didn’t work for me at all. I think the author was going for a fairytale/storybook/whimsical tone in a modern setting, but it was tonally inconsistent, so it just came across as disconnected. I also felt like, for me, it didn’t connect emotionally either. Things just kind of happened one right after the other, but I often did not know why things were happening - cause and effect was not always clear to me. The worldbuilding was pretty flimsy as well – things that didn’t make sense were just kind of hand-waved away. I think I was supposed to accept the hand-waving as being part of the whimsy, but since the whimsical tone didn’t work for me, neither did the hand-waving. I got the book from NetGalley, so I was going to try and power through so that I could submit a review, but in the end I couldn’t do it. I was just constantly bored and annoyed. My first NetGalley DNF :(
This one didn’t work for me at all. I think the author was going for a fairytale/storybook/whimsical tone in a modern setting, but it was tonally inconsistent, so it just came across as disconnected. I also felt like, for me, it didn’t connect emotionally either. Things just kind of happened one right after the other, but I often did not know why things were happening - cause and effect was not always clear to me. The worldbuilding was pretty flimsy as well – things that didn’t make sense were just kind of hand-waved away. I think I was supposed to accept the hand-waving as being part of the whimsy, but since the whimsical tone didn’t work for me, neither did the hand-waving. I got the book from NetGalley, so I was going to try and power through so that I could submit a review, but in the end I couldn’t do it. I was just constantly bored and annoyed. My first NetGalley DNF :(
kvangundy's review against another edition
2.0
As much as I wanted to like this one, I just couldn't get past all the characters and the far too unnecessarily complicated storyline. It had a good idea behind it, but it was just too hard for me to decipher the actual story beyond all the confusion. 2 stars. Thank you, for the eARC.
cactusjuice720's review
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
letboburnhamburnem's review against another edition
1.0
I found this book to be so unnecessarily confusing and if I hadn’t bought a physical copy I wouldn’t have finished it. Too many ideas, too many characters with too many names and relationships to each other and despite having all these big ideas just was also somehow really boring???? Genuinely bummed because the back cover made it sound so fun and interesting but alas
starrylight's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.25
Book was wildly confusing, went fast in the worst way. Throwing together multiple diffrent mythos doing things that made no sense
jerichamacie's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75