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Dylan B
A good read. Unfortunately, the author's writing style is a bit stilted and often rushed. This is painfully true during deaths of major characters. While no one enjoys a character taking two pages to die while making whispered confessions, we would like more than two sentences worth of details.
With that in mind, the fact that major, like-able characters do die is a refreshing change of pace for young adult literature. The excellent plot and character development more than make up for any lapses in write style.posted 5 years ago.
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Lina B
totally with you on the major characters dieing thing. it's no fun reading a book if you know the hero's going to survive!
posted 3 years ago.
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Autumn R removed this reply 3 years ago
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Vanilla Assassin
You are set up, in a standard three act structure, to expect certain characters to be significant and for others to be expendable. Reeves breaks this model. I expect it was deliberate, but I agree with Dylan: it was not handled as expertly as he might have wanted.
posted 3 years ago.
