arr reviewed The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
Review of 'The Wayfarer Redemption' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Within the first 150 pages, this book contains:
- An absurdly terrible prophetic "poem" about non-specific evil that must be defeated by a band of plucky heroes going on a quest.
- An obnoxious heroine who inexplicably has 20th century values in her generically medieval world, who is also amazingly beautiful in that way that only fantasy heroines in terrible books are.
- A douchey hero with an absurd name (to go along with the other absurd names in the book that sound like they were made up by a 4th grader).
- A guy we're supposed to hate despite the fact that we are given no actual reason to do so other than that the aforementioned unappealing hero and heroine seem to. Their hatred also appears to be for no reason other than that they read the book beforehand or something.
- Juvenile prose with a wandering POV that …
Within the first 150 pages, this book contains:
- An absurdly terrible prophetic "poem" about non-specific evil that must be defeated by a band of plucky heroes going on a quest.
- An obnoxious heroine who inexplicably has 20th century values in her generically medieval world, who is also amazingly beautiful in that way that only fantasy heroines in terrible books are.
- A douchey hero with an absurd name (to go along with the other absurd names in the book that sound like they were made up by a 4th grader).
- A guy we're supposed to hate despite the fact that we are given no actual reason to do so other than that the aforementioned unappealing hero and heroine seem to. Their hatred also appears to be for no reason other than that they read the book beforehand or something.
- Juvenile prose with a wandering POV that changes from one sentence to the next in various instances. Generally, this seems to be because the author was apparently too inept to handle writing a scene with multiple people thinking and feeling at the same time without just jumping into each character's head in turn to tell us directly what was going on with them.
This is an AMAZINGLY terrible book. It's as though the author took a list of crappy, generic fantasy tropes and used them as a guideline.
How was it published? Your guess is as good as mine.
