Ellen O'Connell
Auteur van Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
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- 10
- Leden
- 348
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- #68,679
- Waardering
- 4.0
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- 41
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- 11
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- 4
First, the only good thing I can say: there's a lot of drama, a lot of external issues threatening the union of our hero and heroine. If you don't mind weak characterization and shoddy writing and only care about plot, then you'll like this book. Every time I think it has to end, it doesn't. There's always something new and interesting around the corner, which forced me to keep reading and keep being disappointed.
As I mentioned earlier, the writing and characters are crap, and they go hand in hand. The exposition is all over the place. O'Connell info dumps readers with families trees and neighbors' backstories, most of whom the reader never meets. It's exhausting, boring, and frustrating. It made it difficult to find relevant and important information. However, if there's something you want to know more about, O'Connell doesn't deliver.
She also tended to solve her own problems early in the book but drag them out for the entire story. For example: racism. Cord is half Indian, so the entire town is against him, even his own family. Fine. Stupidly, (the villain in this is remarkably stupid) he's attacked IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY RIGHT AFTER CHURCH LET OUT, which means there's a ton of people around. After the fight, most of the townsfolk go up to the sheriff to make sure he knows that Cord was provoked. It seems that Anne and Cord have won over the townspeople, but in the next chapter, they still think she's trash for marrying him. Even Cord's family's racism towards their own brother surprised me. Even when they learned how Anne and Cord got together, they still assumed he forced her! Everyone in this book is dumber than a rock.
So yeah, lots of inconsistent characterization, plot development, and exposition. As a side note, the fight scene was poorly written, which I would know as a martial arts instructor. That was infuriating to read. The only reason this isn't 1 star is because it was sometimes decent, and there was plenty of drama to keep me hooked. Then the climax blew it, and I was so frustrated!
Without giving too much away: the climax promised to be great with tension and deviousness and Cord needing to defy nature to save Anne. Why did it fail miserably? BECAUSE THE ENTIRE CLIMAX WAS TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HER SPINELESS, WEAK, COWARDLY, RACIST RELATIVES who suddenly repented after hearing the villain's REAL plan for Anne. Nope. Do not care about them. It completely deflated the entire climax, and I have rarely been so disappointed in a book.… (meer)