A review by cko
Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

You know how some books feel like they are destined to be a movie? Or perhaps even should have been a movie, instead of a book? I kept craving to see this play out on screen rather than the page.

Some things I liked:
  • Gay slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance!!!
  • Bisexual representation!!!
  • The descriptions of how Rao experiences truth as a physical sensation
  • The horror aspects and metaphors about nostalgia
  • The page-turning pacing in the first and last thirds of the book

Some things I didn't like:
  • There were often long sequences of dialogue with no attributions. Not sure if it's because I read an ARC (thank you, S&S!) but I often had to reread the dialogue to figure out who was saying what because the back-and-forth didn't make sense; it often seemed like one person would speak twice in a row.
  • There was also a slow part in the middle that dragged on a bit, and later I saw the reasoning for it, but I almost didn't pick the book back up again because of that slowness.
  • A few of the characters did not feel real (like Rhodes, but maybe psychopaths just have that quality?)
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