Colleen Cowley
Auteur de Subversive
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Séries
Œuvres de Colleen Cowley
Into the Bargain: A Clandestine Magic Fairy Tale 4 exemplaires
Clandestine (Clandestine Magic Trilogy Prequell) 2 exemplaires
Interlude: A Clandestine Magic Short Story 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Cowley, Colleen
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Courte biographie
- Colleen Cowley writes romantic fantasy from a home next to a possibly magical forest. But then, aren't all forests magical?
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 105
- Popularité
- #183,191
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 4
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
But it isn't some unreasonable and one-sided manifest against men.
With that out of the way, let me get to my actual problems with this book.
I am sad to say that the world-building doesn't hold together in the slightest which compromises the entire plot as well.
The core idea is actually much more interesting in practice than it sounded in the blurb.
And on the surface, at least at first, it seems like this could actually be very entertaining.
Even many of the core plot points and conflicts are well-designed to make for a good story.
But it all frays at the edges from the start until everything unravels.
I usually give a book the benefit of the doubt if it starts with an unbelievable premise or some illogical initial setup. There is this initial grace period where a book can basically ignore common sense to get to some interesting starting point.
But I expect that beyond the premise and its surroundings that a story tries to stay internally consistent.
This one does not. The author just makes shit up along the way constantly without having any backing explanation whatsoever.
And these are not just some minor details, the majority of the entire plot and world-building is made of these bizarre additions.
What is even more baffling to me is that this very much seems like it's all planned out and not just some spur-of-the-moment addition or a discovery-written story.
But the building blocks from which the story is built are one more absurd than the other.
The writing style is very enjoyable, I had no problem connecting to the character and the plot pulled me in but the further I got the more I disconnected because nothing makes any sense towards the end.
The ending is just a "to be continued" without any real climax or anything. But towards the end there the logical consistency problem spread to the characters' reasoning as well which made less and less sense either. This loss in character coherence at the end there is what ultimately made me rate this only 2 stars.… (plus d'informations)