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I have read a lot of books in my time here on this earth. this book is just...uninteresting. i thought it would be good. i held onto hope right until the very end, all to no avail. it was all romance and dark broody sexual tension, interspersed with a few quick action bits, and the occasional excellent side character to keep you reading. but thats it. i never found myself caring overly much about the girl and her problems, and never found myself cheering on their budding love. while i finished it, it left a bitter taste. i wish i hadnt purchased it.

this is one mans humble opinion. i gave it a shot, read it all the way through, but still found it vastly sub-par. it reads more like a trashy romance than a fantasy, and while im all for romance in my fantasy, this just didnt make me care at all.

it didnt make me want to put it down half way and never return, but it did make me feel like i wasted my time. to be fair, i almost always read books all the way through. it takes a very terrible book for me to put it down and bury it forever. this wasnt quite that. but i didnt like it. thats all i can say really.


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Trailer Park Fae Gallow and Ragged Lilith Saintcrow 9780316277853 Books Reviews

Robin Ragged and Jeremiah Gallow are two half-humans trying to make the best of things on a cruel, finicky Fae chessboard. They've each got baggage - some of it alive, some freshly dead - and trust is a concept that neither of them really believe in. They're thrown together, then drawn together, but this isn't a romance (so far - I've got my fingers crossed even though Saintcrow's romances can be painful).

The prose starts off heavily lyrical, but there's a reason for it. It's part of the setting and atmosphere, lighter in the scenes set in the human world or away from the more powerful fae characters. I found the world interestingly rendered, the characters complex and compelling, and the story satisfying. That said, I want more. Much more.
I expected more humor and fun in this story. The blurb describing the novel leads to this assumption, even the title gives that impression, and that's the first disappointment. No jokes, no fun, only pain and angst. Instead of fixing the book, fixing the blurb intro might actually help people with what to expect.

In the book we have, next to the main storyline, a romantic push-and-pull relationship between two people that hardly talk to each other. Instead they always have these internal monologues that end up assuming that the other is a cold-hearted somethinsomething and they must hate the other. Or they are or did something cold-hearted themselves and so the other must hate them. Again and again and again until I just wanted the book to end.
I've read other books from Lilith Saint-Crow that I did like, so perhaps it's just the story that's not resonating with me...
Reviewing the entire trilogy as a whole as well as by the installment. Often times one can tell from a first book in a series how a given author writes and if the stories they tell are of any interest or quality. Some authors can start with a weak first book, but develop and become stronger over the course of a series. That is unfortunately not the case here.

Lilith Saintcrow has piqued my interest as an author before, but the synopsis for this book and the series as a whole is woefully misleading as to what this strange, almost rambling story and its characters really entails. The writing itself is decent, just reading some of the prose structure and pacing and you can tell the author is a keen writer and well established in style. However the content itself is very thick and disjointed, though it could be reasonably assumed that due to the nature of Faerie lore the series bases itself in, this could a stylistic choice on the author's part, though not one that does the story any favors.

The main characters take the the idea of budding romantic chemistry and go running in the opposite direction. There are no genuine moments of flirting or engagement with eachother, only vaguely inferred interest on both parties' parts and long, drawn out inner thought sections which always culminate in the assumption that the other is actually not interested after all, and/or make wild guesses about why. The female protagonist is under the assumption that the male protagonist only sees her resemblance to her sister, his dead wife, and he in turn thinks that she sees him as a cold hearted killer and nothing more. And rinse and repeat through the entire book, and then the entire series. Not once do they actually talk about how they really feel and why, and the vague inferring gets old within the first few times they do it.

The action scenes are fast and descriptive, but very brief and slapdash with their pacing and use. It seems every other scene characters are running somewhere or from something, fighting something, hiding out, then doing it all over again. It is not helped by the random side character perspectives the author decides to give as much if not in some cases more development in the short term than she gives her main characters in the long term for one-off encounters they have as outsiders looking in on the story, usually ending with flash-forwards about how it affects said side characters in the future, after which they are never brought up again. It seems to be an effort to try and flesh out the mystical lore of the series and how it affects the normal world so randomly, but it comes off as pace breaking and needless padding for the story overall. None of it does anything to affect the main cast nor add up to some grand consequences at the end of the books individually or the series as a whole.

There are also smaller details that get focused on so often and so thoroughly that clash with the actual events at hand, making them break the immersion and come off more as distracting than helping craft the actual scenes. Overly detailed focus on the background, or bringing up bits of Faerie lore and background premise that drag in noticeable spots when the focus should be on the action or the characters interacting with eachother. Also a few very confusing uses of terms repeated throughout the books ad nauseum, like despite the cover depictions and all written descriptions of the male protagonist's weapon looking and being constructed like a spear, the author refers to it as a lance, which has almost the exact opposite construction to its design as constantly described by the author every time the protagonist brings it out. This seems like a bit of a nitpick, but given how often the author goes through the descriptions so repeatedly through the books, it starts to stick out like a sore thumb along with all the strangely used terms.

What really rankles however is that there are moments the books, the first in particular, seems to set up turning points where it seems like there will be actual character moments and interactions, that deeper engagement will occur for the story and actually give reason for investment. But then it fails to, every time, and instead of reading out of interest to see where the story and characters go, there is a frustrated sense of impatience wondering when the author will actually get to doing it. This pervades all the way to the end of the trilogy, and to a very disappointing conclusion, the most disappointing I've come across in a very long time as a reader, and moreso because the author does seem to be competent at story-crafting and thus off all the more befuddling to why she wrote it such a way that gives so little care to its actual characters and how the story itself proceeds.

It is not often I find myself regretting spending money on books, but this is an instance where I feel like I wasted quite a bit on this trilogy when I should have stopped with the first book. It is quite possibly the most well crafted, intentionally written disappointment I have ever read.
I have read a lot of books in my time here on this earth. this book is just...uninteresting. i thought it would be good. i held onto hope right until the very end, all to no avail. it was all romance and dark broody sexual tension, interspersed with a few quick action bits, and the occasional excellent side character to keep you reading. but thats it. i never found myself caring overly much about the girl and her problems, and never found myself cheering on their budding love. while i finished it, it left a bitter taste. i wish i hadnt purchased it.

this is one mans humble opinion. i gave it a shot, read it all the way through, but still found it vastly sub-par. it reads more like a trashy romance than a fantasy, and while im all for romance in my fantasy, this just didnt make me care at all.

it didnt make me want to put it down half way and never return, but it did make me feel like i wasted my time. to be fair, i almost always read books all the way through. it takes a very terrible book for me to put it down and bury it forever. this wasnt quite that. but i didnt like it. thats all i can say really.