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A review by llim
The Weight of Souls by Bryony Pearce
3.0
Not bad.
The romance at the end wasn't too irritating, kind of out of nowhere but it worked, I guess.
The whole "army of the dead" at the end was cool, I didn't think the book would be that bold and go into the supernatural/mythology stuff as much as it did. I didn't much like the random journal entries littered throughout the story (they felt irrelevant, and interrupted the main story), and I don't think they were really necessary (they certainly didn't help me understand the whole underworld thing...honestly, it wasn't super clear what was going on in the journal entries anyway. Something with robbing a tomb? And some evil professeur?).
Not sure the "bad kids" really deserved the fate they got...sure, they sabotaged the Justin guy so he'd end up falling off the scaffolding, but come on, he's the one who went up there in the first place. I'm not sure it would even be considered murder in court...they probably wouldn't get much time for it. They really didn't deserve to be turned into zombie statue things for the rest of eternity >_>
Liked the british accents~
Feels like there should be a sequel...but it doesn't look like there is one. Weird.
Oh, ha, also, the whole prospect of a secret 'truth or dare' club is ridiculous, I can't believe the author just ran with that.
The romance at the end wasn't too irritating, kind of out of nowhere but it worked, I guess.
The whole "army of the dead" at the end was cool, I didn't think the book would be that bold and go into the supernatural/mythology stuff as much as it did. I didn't much like the random journal entries littered throughout the story (they felt irrelevant, and interrupted the main story), and I don't think they were really necessary (they certainly didn't help me understand the whole underworld thing...honestly, it wasn't super clear what was going on in the journal entries anyway. Something with robbing a tomb? And some evil professeur?).
Not sure the "bad kids" really deserved the fate they got...sure, they sabotaged the Justin guy so he'd end up falling off the scaffolding, but come on, he's the one who went up there in the first place. I'm not sure it would even be considered murder in court...they probably wouldn't get much time for it. They really didn't deserve to be turned into zombie statue things for the rest of eternity >_>
Liked the british accents~
Feels like there should be a sequel...but it doesn't look like there is one. Weird.
Oh, ha, also, the whole prospect of a secret 'truth or dare' club is ridiculous, I can't believe the author just ran with that.