⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book was fucking meh
Thoroughly confusing story with too many characters to keep up with and too many double crosses to keep straight. It tried to be Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour and failed miserably. I was bored almost the entire time except for when Babau Jean showed up and started shredding some bitches. Then he disappeared, and it got fucking boring again.
I didn’t care about any of the characters except for Babau Jean (whose name the narrator pronounced like Baboo Jean), the bad guy, who turned out to be Alice’s father who wasn’t her father but her grandfather but really it was her father. Because why not confuse the ever-loving HELL out of your reader?
Alice should have been far more developed. She was useless and had no agency from start to finish. Everything just happened to her. She controlled nothing, which made for a weak-ass heroine that I couldn’t identify or empathize with.
The story could have been so much better if it had stronger character development and fewer pointless twists and turns. So-and-so’s mother was so-and-so’s friend was so-and-so’s daughter who wasn’t really her daughter but someone else…on and on it went, ad infinitum.
Annoying word usage alert: "Intuited” was used far too much. It was ridiculously annoying.
The narrator had a great voice, but she kept mispronouncing words. Her over dubs sounded wooden and emotionless. They were clearly dubs because she lost the cadence of the original speech every time. It also had a different background quality.
I didn't hate the book, but I didn't fucking love it either. If you're looking for something witchy, Anne Rice is better.
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