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A review by mickeyreads
Murder Road by Simone St. James
2.0
To badly summarise (because it’s 11pm and I just read this in like 4 hours)
- Characters that had no depth outside of their past trauma that was info dumped in chunks, including a FMC whose life only character traits were being pretty but not too pretty and being thin and eating diet bars, and a MMC who was a soldier once upon a time.
- A rather predictable and, I’ll be perfectly honest, anticlimactic twist.
- Writing reminiscent of a mid to late 2010’s YA novel (you know, the ones with the vampires and angels that were churned out without editing in the age of wattpad)
- Stilted, unnatural, and cringe worthy dialogue
- no well rounded character motivations (not even from the villan)
- no real resolution
- the lowest stakes for the main characters
- points were made and then re explained constantly, this book was in a constant state of telling, not showing, to the point it felt like it was written for someone with the reading level of a 6 year old.
This book was very readable, I pushed through all of the things I hated because I wanted to know what happened, and found myself unbearably disappointed. Not my worst read of the year, but definitely my second worst so far.
Read this if: You want an easy “horror” (I put horror in quotations because it was not at all atmospheric or scary) and don’t want to have to do any reading comprehension at all. All in all this is the kind of book that feels like it’s written for people who don’t read.
- Characters that had no depth outside of their past trauma that was info dumped in chunks, including a FMC whose life only character traits were being pretty but not too pretty and being thin and eating diet bars, and a MMC who was a soldier once upon a time.
- A rather predictable and, I’ll be perfectly honest, anticlimactic twist.
- Writing reminiscent of a mid to late 2010’s YA novel (you know, the ones with the vampires and angels that were churned out without editing in the age of wattpad)
- Stilted, unnatural, and cringe worthy dialogue
- no well rounded character motivations (not even from the villan)
- no real resolution
- the lowest stakes for the main characters
- points were made and then re explained constantly, this book was in a constant state of telling, not showing, to the point it felt like it was written for someone with the reading level of a 6 year old.
This book was very readable, I pushed through all of the things I hated because I wanted to know what happened, and found myself unbearably disappointed. Not my worst read of the year, but definitely my second worst so far.
Read this if: You want an easy “horror” (I put horror in quotations because it was not at all atmospheric or scary) and don’t want to have to do any reading comprehension at all. All in all this is the kind of book that feels like it’s written for people who don’t read.