Meghan's Reviews > Shadow Frost
Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost, #1)
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bookshelves: young-adult, arcs, fantasy, published-2019, did-not-finish, read-2019
Oct 02, 2019
bookshelves: young-adult, arcs, fantasy, published-2019, did-not-finish, read-2019
Thank you netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for a free copy of the book in exchange for a review. Also: excellent job on the cover.
Oh boy okay. DNF'd at 112 pages/28%
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Look, I don't know how much of this is me, as this book seems to be quite loved. Fantasy, especially YA fantasy, and I have an incredibly complicated relationship. I can't pick and choose what I do like about it, but I do know I am super picky about it. To the point that I've honestly tried not to grab any galleys of them anymore because I rarely like them.
I am so glad that I found out the author originally wrote this at 15 and is only 19. Coco, it is amazing you got published, and I do actually look forward to seeing what you do in the future.
Because I do think part of my is that this book reads like a new book. It's mostly in the dialogue for me. I think the concept here is really cool -- the princess is bad ass, she's got some great friends, a complicated and bad relationship with her mom, and now there is a demon threatening the kingdom. Even some of the random reveals are really cool.
But everything reads and feels so surface level. It takes 80 pages to get to the demon problem, and there is no build up to it. None at all. The guardians(?) are practicing, and then suddenly we find out that thirty guards have gone missing. And the fight the princess has to get her mother to allow her to leave is ....incredibly easy?
Mostly though, I just can't deal with the dialogue (at one point a guardian says bye to a guy by his name, the princess asks why he knows the name, and it's JUST. POINTLESS.), nor when a guy is more worried about his crush having a boyfriend when they're all at risk of dying from a demonic creature. That's the point I had to close the galley and put it up.
Maybe I just need to read longer fiction, because I am guessing everything that's going to get put into this book isn't going to have enough build up. I just don't feel any pull to care about the characters or the kingdom, and I can't do that for 400 pages. I gave it 62 pages longer than I normally would, knowing that the author is young, but that's my limit.
Oh boy okay. DNF'd at 112 pages/28%
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Look, I don't know how much of this is me, as this book seems to be quite loved. Fantasy, especially YA fantasy, and I have an incredibly complicated relationship. I can't pick and choose what I do like about it, but I do know I am super picky about it. To the point that I've honestly tried not to grab any galleys of them anymore because I rarely like them.
I am so glad that I found out the author originally wrote this at 15 and is only 19. Coco, it is amazing you got published, and I do actually look forward to seeing what you do in the future.
Because I do think part of my is that this book reads like a new book. It's mostly in the dialogue for me. I think the concept here is really cool -- the princess is bad ass, she's got some great friends, a complicated and bad relationship with her mom, and now there is a demon threatening the kingdom. Even some of the random reveals are really cool.
But everything reads and feels so surface level. It takes 80 pages to get to the demon problem, and there is no build up to it. None at all. The guardians(?) are practicing, and then suddenly we find out that thirty guards have gone missing. And the fight the princess has to get her mother to allow her to leave is ....incredibly easy?
Mostly though, I just can't deal with the dialogue (at one point a guardian says bye to a guy by his name, the princess asks why he knows the name, and it's JUST. POINTLESS.), nor when a guy is more worried about his crush having a boyfriend when they're all at risk of dying from a demonic creature. That's the point I had to close the galley and put it up.
Maybe I just need to read longer fiction, because I am guessing everything that's going to get put into this book isn't going to have enough build up. I just don't feel any pull to care about the characters or the kingdom, and I can't do that for 400 pages. I gave it 62 pages longer than I normally would, knowing that the author is young, but that's my limit.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
September 11, 2019
– Shelved
September 11, 2019
– Shelved as:
young-adult
September 11, 2019
– Shelved as:
arcs
September 11, 2019
– Shelved as:
fantasy
September 11, 2019
– Shelved as:
published-2019
September 12, 2019
– Shelved as:
to-read
October 2, 2019
– Shelved as:
did-not-finish
October 2, 2019
– Shelved as:
read-2019
