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A review by the_ya_assassin
Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart
2.0
"If my past has taught me anything, it's that the brave act without thinking, and the clever avoid all acts of bravery."
This is not a drill, y'all, this is not a drill. Another OVERHYPED book has appeared on my Goodreads.
Witches Steeped in Gold's premise sounded right up my alley. Pity the author failed to deliver a good story - it didn't keep my attention and BARELY kept my will to continue. I wanted to DNF but I thought it'd get better - it didn't.
For starters, NOTHING, and I mean nothing, happens the first 200 pages. All Ciannon Smart does is set up the plot and worldbuilding- it was boring and very confusing. Imagine an info dump of 200 pages. It had a good plot AFTER the first 300 pages, but I was ready to DNF by then (I kept going though because I HOPED it would get better). Secondly, I could not tell the difference between the two characters' POVs and I don't give a crap about either of them. They were both w*tches (you know what I mean) and I hated them. In fact, I WANTED them to fail at their mission. In addition, Smart FORCED their character arcs onto them and they weren't even well-established arcs. I legitimately only cared about ONE of the characters and that was the pirate, Roje, who the reader only saw, like, twice, maybe three times.
The one thing I DID like were the subplots - they were much better.
Also, I just need to rant - there are FEW Jamaican things in this book, despite how the synopsis made it sound - the food is the ONLY thing I could identify as Jamaican. Throwing random "Jamaican" words into the story, does NOT make it Jamaican.
Overall, good concept but TERRIBLY executed. Please do not waste your time on this book. And if you do, borrow it from the library.
This is not a drill, y'all, this is not a drill. Another OVERHYPED book has appeared on my Goodreads.
Witches Steeped in Gold's premise sounded right up my alley. Pity the author failed to deliver a good story - it didn't keep my attention and BARELY kept my will to continue. I wanted to DNF but I thought it'd get better - it didn't.
For starters, NOTHING, and I mean nothing, happens the first 200 pages. All Ciannon Smart does is set up the plot and worldbuilding- it was boring and very confusing. Imagine an info dump of 200 pages. It had a good plot AFTER the first 300 pages, but I was ready to DNF by then (I kept going though because I HOPED it would get better). Secondly, I could not tell the difference between the two characters' POVs and I don't give a crap about either of them. They were both w*tches (you know what I mean) and I hated them. In fact, I WANTED them to fail at their mission. In addition, Smart FORCED their character arcs onto them and they weren't even well-established arcs. I legitimately only cared about ONE of the characters and that was the pirate, Roje, who the reader only saw, like, twice, maybe three times.
The one thing I DID like were the subplots - they were much better.
Also, I just need to rant - there are FEW Jamaican things in this book, despite how the synopsis made it sound - the food is the ONLY thing I could identify as Jamaican. Throwing random "Jamaican" words into the story, does NOT make it Jamaican.
Overall, good concept but TERRIBLY executed. Please do not waste your time on this book. And if you do, borrow it from the library.