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An Inheritance of Ashes
by Leah Bobet
I received this book via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
Uhm. Messy. An inheritance of ashes is a messy mix of good ideas there weren't put together as they should have. There are good elements and good ideas but they are so poorly developed that the result was a mess.
The relationship between Marthe and Hallie was one of the worst things about this book. Marthe is a complete asshole for most of the book, while Hallie spends half of it feeling sorry for herself and whining about everything. Then all of a sudden Marthe becomes nice. Yeah, sure. I hated her and I hated their relationship. I get it, she is pregnant and the father of the baby might be dead, but it doesn't justify her being cruel to her sister.
The world-building is almost non-existent. There are these "Twisted Things" that come out of somewhere...and then there's this war against a god that is never explained. Everything is taken for granted, while nothing is really explained. We get some answers at the end of the book but they didn't seem very clear to me.
Heron's identity was quite predictable, which kind of tested my patience, since I wasn't really enjoying the book.
I kind of liked the romance.
I'm almost sorry because I wanted to enjoy this book but I really couldn't. The summary promised things that the book itself failed to deliver.
Uhm. Messy. An inheritance of ashes is a messy mix of good ideas there weren't put together as they should have. There are good elements and good ideas but they are so poorly developed that the result was a mess.
The relationship between Marthe and Hallie was one of the worst things about this book. Marthe is a complete asshole for most of the book, while Hallie spends half of it feeling sorry for herself and whining about everything. Then all of a sudden Marthe becomes nice. Yeah, sure. I hated her and I hated their relationship. I get it, she is pregnant and the father of the baby might be dead, but it doesn't justify her being cruel to her sister.
The world-building is almost non-existent. There are these "Twisted Things" that come out of somewhere...and then there's this war against a god that is never explained. Everything is taken for granted, while nothing is really explained. We get some answers at the end of the book but they didn't seem very clear to me.
Heron's identity was quite predictable, which kind of tested my patience, since I wasn't really enjoying the book.
I kind of liked the romance.
I'm almost sorry because I wanted to enjoy this book but I really couldn't. The summary promised things that the book itself failed to deliver.