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capn_beardy 's review for:
Black Stone Heart
by Michael R. Fletcher
This book started off so promisingly. A great premise with a twisty mystery making up its bulk, I was sure I was gonna be hooked til the end.
Howeva, it puttered out for me a little after the halfway mark. I really do want to know what happens when our (anti)hero finally gets his heart all back together but there’s so many dreary inner monologues of doubt that I just can’t read another whole book. This guy just has endless debates with himself. One page he’s all gung-ho on not being an evil monster and then two pages later he’s back to “oh well, let’s chop up some bodies so I can get my power back lol”. And then he immediately feels guilt about being blasé about murder again! Pick a lane, dude! I can get on board with someone struggling with his evil inclinations, but it has to be more subtle than this, it just has to.
It’s a pity because I felt like this book could have been so much more. There’s bits here and there that are truly fun and interesting. But it’s so bogged down by pages of maudlin recriminations that I really have very little interest in reading the next installment.
(ALSO SPOILER ANGER: Dude, you are NOT allowed to be surprised by the Venka discovery at the end. I mean DUHHHHHHH)
Howeva, it puttered out for me a little after the halfway mark. I really do want to know what happens when our (anti)hero finally gets his heart all back together but there’s so many dreary inner monologues of doubt that I just can’t read another whole book. This guy just has endless debates with himself. One page he’s all gung-ho on not being an evil monster and then two pages later he’s back to “oh well, let’s chop up some bodies so I can get my power back lol”. And then he immediately feels guilt about being blasé about murder again! Pick a lane, dude! I can get on board with someone struggling with his evil inclinations, but it has to be more subtle than this, it just has to.
It’s a pity because I felt like this book could have been so much more. There’s bits here and there that are truly fun and interesting. But it’s so bogged down by pages of maudlin recriminations that I really have very little interest in reading the next installment.
(ALSO SPOILER ANGER: Dude, you are NOT allowed to be surprised by the Venka discovery at the end. I mean DUHHHHHHH)