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A review by kittyg
The Fallen by Lee French, Erik Kort
3.0
*This is one of my #SPFBO books for this year*
I really was interested in this when I started reading as I feel like the start of the book really drags you in. At the beginning we're following a young woman called Chevali who is the Clan Seer for the Blaukeners. These people are a travelling group who entertain, wander and live a fairly untroubled life. They sometimes put on shows for villages if they want to trade or gain money, but in general the Clan is family and they never leave or desert one another.
Chevali's character is a promising one at the start, she seems like she knows her own mind and she's kind of stubborn at times. I particularly like the fact that she stood up for herself multiple times and knew how to say 'No' when she needed to. However, as the story went on I feel like Chevali made a few choices and we saw a few internal thoughts from her that were a little disappointing and I feel like she could have stayed a little stronger than she did.
The magic of this world comes from the Seer mostly because whenever Chevali touches a person she gets to see their thoughts as images in her mind. I like the concept of this magic, and the fact that she uses it to be a Seer for the clan was interesting, but alongside this Chevali also occasionally has visions.
The story itself is fairly well paced although I did find some bits a little slower than I wanted. I read the first half of the book pretty quickly, but there is a section in the middle which is setting up a new location and organisation and I felt some of that was a bit slow-going.
On the whole, I think this had some good moments and it didn't follow quite the path I anticipated which I liked, but I think some of the elements I found most fascinating (the Clan life) aren't really a feature later in the book and I would have liked to see more of these.
It's a solid read with only a few typos/grammatical issues (although one was the name of the main character so that's not great!) and I gave it a 3*s overall so 6/10 for SPFBO.
I really was interested in this when I started reading as I feel like the start of the book really drags you in. At the beginning we're following a young woman called Chevali who is the Clan Seer for the Blaukeners. These people are a travelling group who entertain, wander and live a fairly untroubled life. They sometimes put on shows for villages if they want to trade or gain money, but in general the Clan is family and they never leave or desert one another.
Chevali's character is a promising one at the start, she seems like she knows her own mind and she's kind of stubborn at times. I particularly like the fact that she stood up for herself multiple times and knew how to say 'No' when she needed to. However, as the story went on I feel like Chevali made a few choices and we saw a few internal thoughts from her that were a little disappointing and I feel like she could have stayed a little stronger than she did.
The magic of this world comes from the Seer mostly because whenever Chevali touches a person she gets to see their thoughts as images in her mind. I like the concept of this magic, and the fact that she uses it to be a Seer for the clan was interesting, but alongside this Chevali also occasionally has visions.
The story itself is fairly well paced although I did find some bits a little slower than I wanted. I read the first half of the book pretty quickly, but there is a section in the middle which is setting up a new location and organisation and I felt some of that was a bit slow-going.
On the whole, I think this had some good moments and it didn't follow quite the path I anticipated which I liked, but I think some of the elements I found most fascinating (the Clan life) aren't really a feature later in the book and I would have liked to see more of these.
It's a solid read with only a few typos/grammatical issues (although one was the name of the main character so that's not great!) and I gave it a 3*s overall so 6/10 for SPFBO.