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isabelleverdino's Reviews (370)
3.5⭐️ This book was definitely entertaining! I wanted to read it when goodreads emailed me about it lol and it did get me out of my mini reading slump. I LOVED the beginning of this book and even though the end wasn’t exactly what I wanted I’m happy I read this.
This was really not for me. Which is unfortunate- because this book tried to be SO many things that none of them felt successful to me.
I went into this book expecting a mystery. And for the first 100 pages that’s what it seemed like it was. When it started shifting beyond that, I was willing to play along. But I was never convinced. The book spent so much time with the original seven cartographers but not enough to be their own story or to make me care about them. I didn’t. I didn’t care about the drama, the betrayals, the secrets with them; it felt paltry.
Then they added the magic bit. Kinda cool. Gotta be honest though, not enough of a motive to kill people. Or to pretend to be dead for 20+ years and hide from the world and everyone who loves you including your daughter. After reading the note, Nell says she understands now. Why her parents did it. Well I don’t. For all they wanted to talk about maps being valuable even if they were fantasy, let it be impermanent. The Pevensie family did not feel the need to claim ownership over Narnia forever because it was not theirs- and the world was wider than that one experience. For experts on cartography, and for people who had friends and loved ones, they seemed to miss that.
So I, unfortunately, don’t get the hype around this book. Parts of it were interesting. In fact, I think at least three books could have been written from different concepts or sections of this book. Maybe I would have liked those better.
I went into this book expecting a mystery. And for the first 100 pages that’s what it seemed like it was. When it started shifting beyond that, I was willing to play along. But I was never convinced. The book spent so much time with the original seven cartographers but not enough to be their own story or to make me care about them. I didn’t. I didn’t care about the drama, the betrayals, the secrets with them; it felt paltry.
Then they added the magic bit. Kinda cool. Gotta be honest though, not enough of a motive to kill people. Or to pretend to be dead for 20+ years and hide from the world and everyone who loves you including your daughter. After reading the note, Nell says she understands now. Why her parents did it. Well I don’t. For all they wanted to talk about maps being valuable even if they were fantasy, let it be impermanent. The Pevensie family did not feel the need to claim ownership over Narnia forever because it was not theirs- and the world was wider than that one experience. For experts on cartography, and for people who had friends and loved ones, they seemed to miss that.
So I, unfortunately, don’t get the hype around this book. Parts of it were interesting. In fact, I think at least three books could have been written from different concepts or sections of this book. Maybe I would have liked those better.
