Review of 'Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Audiobook version: narration is ok, except for a large flaw: rythm, breathing spaces/breaks in the wrong places (too many) all the time.
"She really... said to the cat that... she should learn to speak longer... sentences".
It is deathly tiring. Setting the narration speed to 1.1 helps a little but doesn't fix it of course.
Story is campy ya with bad prose and bad writing habits. But the story, cliché as it is, is fun.
The waaaaay too many porn scenes are absolutely cringe-worthy. They read as if they are written by a 14 y/o boy who has discovered pornhub and tries to capture scenes into words. I'm not adverse to reading some smut, but this is puerille and written from a woman's viewpoint by someone who probably has never had sex with a real woman. It distracts from the story, and I started skipping the (too long) scenes all …
Audiobook version: narration is ok, except for a large flaw: rythm, breathing spaces/breaks in the wrong places (too many) all the time.
"She really... said to the cat that... she should learn to speak longer... sentences".
It is deathly tiring. Setting the narration speed to 1.1 helps a little but doesn't fix it of course.
Story is campy ya with bad prose and bad writing habits. But the story, cliché as it is, is fun.
The waaaaay too many porn scenes are absolutely cringe-worthy. They read as if they are written by a 14 y/o boy who has discovered pornhub and tries to capture scenes into words. I'm not adverse to reading some smut, but this is puerille and written from a woman's viewpoint by someone who probably has never had sex with a real woman. It distracts from the story, and I started skipping the (too long) scenes all together.
The footnotes are funny, but the humor in the book usually not. Jay needs a better editor to read through those fight scenes (esp the last ones) because apparently there's an unlimited supply of "last knives"/"last globes".
But a story can be very unevenly and written as a mashup of other existing books, with all the flaws stated above, and still have good entertainment value. Hence the three stars.
