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A review by quirkydrummer
What If…Loki Was Worthy? by Madeleine Roux
3.0
(SPOILERS START MIDWAY DOWN- First three paragraphs are spoiler free)
I really REALLY wanted to like this book more than I did. I had a lot of fun with it over the first 150 pages or so, but there were a lot of issues with the book that made me knock a four star down to a three.
I feel like the biggest problem with this book is the editing. There were multiple times while reading that I had to go back and reread sections. I would find myself getting confused, go back to ensure I didn't miss something that just happened, and the most common culprit was just the order and ways in which events are presented. Sometimes, however, it felt like a piece was missing entirely, and that got very frustrating to experience every time I sat down to read a portion of the book.
Mjöllnir is also referred to as an axe at one point where it is involved in a battle where another fighter has an actual axe. I don't know how that slipped past editing, but it surprised me so much that I went back to read the page four times in a row to make sure I didn't misunderstand something (we're seeing a pattern with that).
(Spoilers start here)
Events happen that are convenient to move the plot along but make no sense for the character performing them. I was baffled when Jane, knowing Quinn has written ~30 questions down on individual slips of paper about Asgard (information she doesn't want Tony Stark to know) BROUGHT THESE WITH HER DURING A TRIP TO STARK TOWER. One conveniently falls out in Tony's lab, and that's a legitimate plot device that moves things along in the later half of the book. For a woman who is so smart (admittedly VERY stressed and exhausted) and determined to keep Asgard's secrets out of the wrong hands, she comes across as highly incompetent in that regard by bringing a purse full of questions about Thor, Asgard, wormholes, etc. directly into the work space of the man she's trying to hide that info from.
Also, we commit the cardinal sin of "the dog (gecko) dies." And while yes, Brian's story purpose was to speak about the impermanence of mortal life, him getting "scraped" off the ground was when I just kind of stopped caring about what happened next.
Points for including "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" in Loki's self-help book pile though. If any of us need to read it, it's him.
I really REALLY wanted to like this book more than I did. I had a lot of fun with it over the first 150 pages or so, but there were a lot of issues with the book that made me knock a four star down to a three.
I feel like the biggest problem with this book is the editing. There were multiple times while reading that I had to go back and reread sections. I would find myself getting confused, go back to ensure I didn't miss something that just happened, and the most common culprit was just the order and ways in which events are presented. Sometimes, however, it felt like a piece was missing entirely, and that got very frustrating to experience every time I sat down to read a portion of the book.
Mjöllnir is also referred to as an axe at one point where it is involved in a battle where another fighter has an actual axe. I don't know how that slipped past editing, but it surprised me so much that I went back to read the page four times in a row to make sure I didn't misunderstand something (we're seeing a pattern with that).
(Spoilers start here)
Events happen that are convenient to move the plot along but make no sense for the character performing them. I was baffled when Jane, knowing Quinn has written ~30 questions down on individual slips of paper about Asgard (information she doesn't want Tony Stark to know) BROUGHT THESE WITH HER DURING A TRIP TO STARK TOWER. One conveniently falls out in Tony's lab, and that's a legitimate plot device that moves things along in the later half of the book. For a woman who is so smart (admittedly VERY stressed and exhausted) and determined to keep Asgard's secrets out of the wrong hands, she comes across as highly incompetent in that regard by bringing a purse full of questions about Thor, Asgard, wormholes, etc. directly into the work space of the man she's trying to hide that info from.
Also, we commit the cardinal sin of "the dog (gecko) dies." And while yes, Brian's story purpose was to speak about the impermanence of mortal life, him getting "scraped" off the ground was when I just kind of stopped caring about what happened next.
Points for including "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" in Loki's self-help book pile though. If any of us need to read it, it's him.