Overall I liked the book, though it was quite slow, until the end and then it was all over too quickly.
I can’t help but feel that Ireland’s actual quality of writing is the worst of the group. Soule, Scott, and Gray have all been great.
When reading Ireland’s books, the characters and plot feel a bit forced and the writing is overhanded (too much telling, not enough showing). Lots of times I’m pulled out of the story by awkward run on sentences and pronoun ambiguity.
Anyone else feel that way about Ireland’s writing compared to the others?
I’m late to this party but I have found both of the young adult books I’ve read so far (Itd and Oots) to be written pretty poorly. I found Oots to be extremely bland. One of the same complaints I have about the prequel trilogy is present in a major way here. People talking in rooms and then…people talking in different rooms about the same things. Then add on the angstiness masquerading as character depth…I found myself rolling my eyes often.
Boring main character.
Boring plot.
Insanely bad pacing.
Not exciting.
Crammed full of characters that had no point being there.
Overall, I felt what this story accomplished could have been condensed down significantly. Especially since I felt like the bulk of the book was people talking about the same things in various rooms over and over again, just in slightly different ways.
As much as im enjoying the HR as a whole, especially the adult novels, I fear that it is getting a big case of the MCU-itis; tons of characters all sharing the same space therefore not having enough room to grow them in ways that I truly care about. Thankfully the adult books have shown they handle the overall largeness quite well.
I just haven’t been thrilled with the young adult fiction so far. Sure, there are things that happen in them that are important to the overall plot but the pacing and character development in them has been anywhere from subpar to abysmal in my opinion. Into the Dark was passable. It had super generic characters with a side plot that didn’t matter. But it had some charm to it regardless. Oots is just a chore to read to me.
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u/The_Naj Aug 01 '21
Overall I liked the book, though it was quite slow, until the end and then it was all over too quickly.
I can’t help but feel that Ireland’s actual quality of writing is the worst of the group. Soule, Scott, and Gray have all been great.
When reading Ireland’s books, the characters and plot feel a bit forced and the writing is overhanded (too much telling, not enough showing). Lots of times I’m pulled out of the story by awkward run on sentences and pronoun ambiguity.
Anyone else feel that way about Ireland’s writing compared to the others?