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A review by jpaulthunders77
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Did not finish book.
FROM BLOOD AND TRASH!
dnf @ p. does it even matter??
i just couldn't finish it! reading it in the first place, a preplanned decision brought about by my curiosity of the hype, is an utter, irredeemable mistake. i shouldn't have even tried, but the book has never left my mind since it won the Goodreads Choice Awards for Romance. so i was like, fuck it, let's try. what's so good about it? why and how has it defeated Beach Read? and boy was i so disappointed.
the writing is atrocious. ellipses are abused. commas are the new mushrooms—ubiquitous and improperly placed. characters are so cliché and uninteresting. dumb heroine + "hot", asshole hero = eccccckkk!!! their sexual tension was over the place, the 'love' was actually insta-love if you're gonna ask me.
WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE SWOON OVER THIS ASSHOLE? it appears to me that lack of consent is tantamount to hot, spicy, and angsty romance. bleh! i kid you not when i tell you that angst is still plausible without the hero being an asshole. believe me!
okay, so i must have dnfed this near the midpoint but i couldn't remember where specifically because nothing of great interest happened by the middle, and it's coming from a person like me who's perfectly content with mundane slice-of-life dramas and bullshits. didn't care about the worldbuilding (bitch, where??!), the magic system, and the romance.
this is my first dnf ever because i am a self-diagnosed O.C. person who, in the past, has always pushed through reading till the end even if i wasn't enjoying the book. now i realize that i need to value my time and my mental health, and maybe i should stop dwelling with these thoughts of being a failure for not conquering a book.
the audiobook is 19 fucking hours long!! i would like to reserve the dedication of finishing these long-ass books in reading literary fictions or a dickensian book, or whatever that is actually of good quality.
dnf @ p. does it even matter??
i just couldn't finish it! reading it in the first place, a preplanned decision brought about by my curiosity of the hype, is an utter, irredeemable mistake. i shouldn't have even tried, but the book has never left my mind since it won the Goodreads Choice Awards for Romance. so i was like, fuck it, let's try. what's so good about it? why and how has it defeated Beach Read? and boy was i so disappointed.
the writing is atrocious. ellipses are abused. commas are the new mushrooms—ubiquitous and improperly placed. characters are so cliché and uninteresting. dumb heroine + "hot", asshole hero = eccccckkk!!! their sexual tension was over the place, the 'love' was actually insta-love if you're gonna ask me.
WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE SWOON OVER THIS ASSHOLE? it appears to me that lack of consent is tantamount to hot, spicy, and angsty romance. bleh! i kid you not when i tell you that angst is still plausible without the hero being an asshole. believe me!
okay, so i must have dnfed this near the midpoint but i couldn't remember where specifically because nothing of great interest happened by the middle, and it's coming from a person like me who's perfectly content with mundane slice-of-life dramas and bullshits. didn't care about the worldbuilding (bitch, where??!), the magic system, and the romance.
this is my first dnf ever because i am a self-diagnosed O.C. person who, in the past, has always pushed through reading till the end even if i wasn't enjoying the book. now i realize that i need to value my time and my mental health, and maybe i should stop dwelling with these thoughts of being a failure for not conquering a book.
the audiobook is 19 fucking hours long!! i would like to reserve the dedication of finishing these long-ass books in reading literary fictions or a dickensian book, or whatever that is actually of good quality.