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A review by ella_kate
An Orc on the Wild Side by Tom Holt
lighthearted
slow-paced
2.5
2.5 stars
Urgh this is not the review I wanted to be making because I really really wanted to like this book and I did for the beginning of the book. But I think that highlights my biggest problem with it: I only liked it towards the beginning . Tom holt is clearly an author who is creates the most wonderfully imaginative concepts for books and are initially incredibly exciting to read but for me the exciting part of the book remain it’s initial concept. Because throughout that’s all that the plot felt like it was, a concept that was just being expanded into a novel and there’s was nothing that drew me to it beyond the initial “selling point” so to say. I think this book would have been better as a short story because the longer it went on for the more it felt drawn out and dull. I also thought that the resolution of the conflict at the end was just a little bit too quick and easy that it made the length of the book seem a little pointless.
But that said it was fun, clever idea that initially was enjoyable and I think could have been really good if it had been structured differently and had a faster pace.
It was just a book that didn’t have a lot happen and was more general vibes, which maybe didn’t match the plot concept of the book.
Urgh this is not the review I wanted to be making because I really really wanted to like this book and I did for the beginning of the book. But I think that highlights my biggest problem with it: I only liked it towards the beginning . Tom holt is clearly an author who is creates the most wonderfully imaginative concepts for books and are initially incredibly exciting to read but for me the exciting part of the book remain it’s initial concept. Because throughout that’s all that the plot felt like it was, a concept that was just being expanded into a novel and there’s was nothing that drew me to it beyond the initial “selling point” so to say. I think this book would have been better as a short story because the longer it went on for the more it felt drawn out and dull. I also thought that the resolution of the conflict at the end was just a little bit too quick and easy that it made the length of the book seem a little pointless.
But that said it was fun, clever idea that initially was enjoyable and I think could have been really good if it had been structured differently and had a faster pace.
It was just a book that didn’t have a lot happen and was more general vibes, which maybe didn’t match the plot concept of the book.