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A review by imme_van_gorp
To Hold a Hidden Pearl by Fearne Hill
Did not finish book.
DNF @77%
This really wasn’t for me.
The writing was too flowery and felt too dragged out. There were lots of descriptions of things that simply weren’t important, and ended up really boring me. Meanwhile, the dialogue also seemed odd and appeared stilted.
I couldn’t bond with the characters at all. I felt nothing for them, even though they are both very lonely, sad and depressed, which should have invoked lots of emotion and sympathy from me, but did neither.
Both characters honestly just did not feel like real people to me and I also didn’t really like them, thus it was hard to care about them.
Their relationship itself did not hold my interest either.
I just wasn’t vibing with their dynamic or their interactions, and it was very much an insta-love development. I felt absolutely zero investment in them and I wasn’t able to see the love between them at all.
There were just a lot of weird and questionable things going on in the relationship, and I really didn’t like it.
This whole book felt weirdly empty to me, and I was just so over it. The book wasn’t getting any better, and I would even go so far as to say it was steadily becoming worse, so I figured I’d quit.
This really wasn’t for me.
The writing was too flowery and felt too dragged out. There were lots of descriptions of things that simply weren’t important, and ended up really boring me. Meanwhile, the dialogue also seemed odd and appeared stilted.
I couldn’t bond with the characters at all. I felt nothing for them, even though they are both very lonely, sad and depressed, which should have invoked lots of emotion and sympathy from me, but did neither.
Both characters honestly just did not feel like real people to me and I also didn’t really like them, thus it was hard to care about them.
Their relationship itself did not hold my interest either.
I just wasn’t vibing with their dynamic or their interactions, and it was very much an insta-love development. I felt absolutely zero investment in them and I wasn’t able to see the love between them at all.
There were just a lot of weird and questionable things going on in the relationship, and I really didn’t like it.
This whole book felt weirdly empty to me, and I was just so over it. The book wasn’t getting any better, and I would even go so far as to say it was steadily becoming worse, so I figured I’d quit.