Axl reviewed The reader by Traci Chee (Sea of ink and gold -- book one)
Review of 'The reader' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
3.75
442 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2016
Traci Chee: The reader (2016)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-399-17677-7
- OCLC Number:
- 948174345
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4 stars
(4 reviews)
"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
Heather reviewed The reader by Traci Chee (Sea of ink and gold -- book one)
Review of 'The reader' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Looking at reviews of this book it seems like this is either a book you adore or one that you don't understand at all. I'm in the don't understand category.
The premise seems good. A girl's family is killed and she goes on the run with the thing that they were guarding - a book. No one reads in this time so she doesn't know why the book is important.
Ok, that seems like a good start. But it starts to break down quickly.
I kept reading this book because I was certain it had to go somewhere and have everything tie together eventually. I was wrong. It wasted a great premise. This is supposedly the first book in a series so maybe it will all make sense eventually but I don't want to slog through more books to find out.This review was originally posted on Based On A …
Looking at reviews of this book it seems like this is either a book you adore or one that you don't understand at all. I'm in the don't understand category.
The premise seems good. A girl's family is killed and she goes on the run with the thing that they were guarding - a book. No one reads in this time so she doesn't know why the book is important.
Ok, that seems like a good start. But it starts to break down quickly.
I kept reading this book because I was certain it had to go somewhere and have everything tie together eventually. I was wrong. It wasted a great premise. This is supposedly the first book in a series so maybe it will all make sense eventually but I don't want to slog through more books to find out.This review was originally posted on Based On A True Story
Subjects
- JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
- JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
- Adventure and adventurers
- Robbers and outlaws
- Orphans
- Fiction
- Books and reading
- Fantasy
- Kidnapping
- Adventure stories
- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / General
- Murder