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3.19 AVERAGE
3.19 AVERAGE
DNF, only got about 30 percent through
The concept and the scenes with Death are the only decent parts, and they are genuinely serviceable.
The backstory makes no sense, and it reads like it is supposed to be a script for a superhero movie or CW drama without subtlety or nuance.
The concept and the scenes with Death are the only decent parts, and they are genuinely serviceable.
The backstory makes no sense, and it reads like it is supposed to be a script for a superhero movie or CW drama without subtlety or nuance.
I only made it to chapter 5 of this book before I gave up. This book was completely different from what I was expecting from the description and from most of the reviews I read.
I saw reviews about how this was a view on Grimm fairy tales, and a clever approach to "Death" via his apprentice.
For me this book came across as a depressing, violent dark and angry world. Maybe I should have expected that - although I have read the original Grimm tales, and realize they are darker than Disney would have us believe, this book was so unrelentingly dark and hard, I just could not bring myself to stick with it any longer. Possibly, the book gets more engaging further on, but it was too heavy for me in the portion I read.
I saw reviews about how this was a view on Grimm fairy tales, and a clever approach to "Death" via his apprentice.
For me this book came across as a depressing, violent dark and angry world. Maybe I should have expected that - although I have read the original Grimm tales, and realize they are darker than Disney would have us believe, this book was so unrelentingly dark and hard, I just could not bring myself to stick with it any longer. Possibly, the book gets more engaging further on, but it was too heavy for me in the portion I read.