A bit confused?

After the first volume I could hardly wait to read this one, but in certain respects it was disappointing.
Don’t get me wrong, the ides for the story and the writing are just as good, ….BUT:
First of all it still has this confusion with the characters “viewpoint”, not that the narrators voice changes, but the chapters change in the respect of whom we are hearing about. That would not be a problem as such and wasn’t really in the first volume
After that first volume though I expected, following the tenor of the final events there, Kylla to be the only one who is projected back in time, but here suddenly we find the others, too. And while that would be logical for the other two “original Amazons”, Lorelei and Johan, it isn’t exactly or Cynthia and her Brother, Inès and Adméte.
Also the time differences given at the start of a different narrative like “15 years later” don’t make much sense, when we suddenly are reading about a different character. I think there is a need for editing here so that it becomes natural to follow a course of events in a coherent time line or a character.
At 61% I find myself close to giving up. The storyline is too confused to enjoy, even though the fractured bits are well written, but it is difficult to keep track of what is going on and what the various ‘heroines’ experience in relation to the first volume seems absurd in some moments, the context practically missing more often than not. It feels more like drafts for more than one volume all jumbled, really. Perhaps tomorrow it will come together, I sincerely hope so.
Published on September 25, 2020 15:41
No comments have been added yet.