QuietCat reviewed The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith (Hell's Library, #1)
Adequate
3 stars
I'll preface that my rating and my review stem primarily from the fact that I didn't feel like I really 'clicked' with this book until almost the end.
There isn't anything particularly wrong or glaring with the writing style, and concept is a delightful one. I do feel that there was a lot of characters. While they all had their role to play, the length of the story and the events transpiring didn't give enough room for all the characters to breathe and grow and become well known to me. I think that's one of the reasons I didn't precisely care about any of them until the book was almost over. However, the writer does keep the pacing at a decent clip and scatters just enough curiosity about events to have kept me hooked until the end.
The plot also didn't feel like it had a great deal of space …
I'll preface that my rating and my review stem primarily from the fact that I didn't feel like I really 'clicked' with this book until almost the end.
There isn't anything particularly wrong or glaring with the writing style, and concept is a delightful one. I do feel that there was a lot of characters. While they all had their role to play, the length of the story and the events transpiring didn't give enough room for all the characters to breathe and grow and become well known to me. I think that's one of the reasons I didn't precisely care about any of them until the book was almost over. However, the writer does keep the pacing at a decent clip and scatters just enough curiosity about events to have kept me hooked until the end.
The plot also didn't feel like it had a great deal of space to breathe. The most important beats are addressed, but there's aspects that felt like they could have been explored deeper--lore wise and emotionally.
It's not a bad book by any means or measure; it just could have been better. And being able to see that always leaves me a bit disappointed.
