Danielle Knight

A rather vengeful accord is rather an accord full of bollocks.

I don't even know where to start, as this book ticked so many boxes on how notto write a book.
There is the totally annoying and insufferable main character, who thinks she is the bee's knees but in reality is as thick as winter fog. Maybe it was meant as an endearing or cutsie putsie character flaw but which is just so, so off putting.
The whole magic system was not really explained, yes, you could figure it out slowly during the show more story, but honestly, at the end, when there was an explanation why the one part of the magic wielders is always rude and dishonest and the other half is the goodie two shoes, I was not interested in it anymore.

Overall, this book is yet another stone in this wall of first time authors, who are lacking talent and/or creativity.
There is yet again a lot of description about clothes, things, you know, those things which someone can very easily see in front of you, but as soon as it comes to describing things that are only in the writer's head, there is nothing.
The monsters never came to life, for example, they were neither spooky or scary (a bell???, seriously???), yes, sure, you might have gotten an idea where the writer wanted to go with it, but the lack of writing talent didn't help to bring it over the finish line.

This book was supposed to have horror elements, but honestly the most horror part was the totally inane wrong usage of paradox. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of paradox and oxymoron, but in this case they felt like as if the author did not really understand how to apply them and just used them because she had heard about rhetorical terms.
"The thundering pantomime voice", "he held the cigarette loosely but firm between his fingers" ...

The story by itself is nothing special, it is was it said it would be (besides the horror), it's not really my cup of tea, so I won't make any snarky comments about that.

As we say in my native language, this book was a grab into the toilet. show less