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Lux
Since the war that magic users lost, it's dangerous to have magic. It's not illegal, exactly, but folks are perfectly accustomed to seeing the corpses of warlocks lying in the gutter as they go about their day. Lux is a warlock who dares to survive everything thrown at him. Even through captivity, torment at the hands of a hunter who's taken a liking to messing with his head, and facing the chilling casual brutality of society around him, this warlock has to find a way not just to survive, but to live.
280 pages, Paperback
Published May 6, 2019
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May 19, 2021
Unfortunately it doesn't feel like a book, but a collection of drabbles, missing a clear red thread - save for the names of the main characters.
From chapter to the next side characters disappear and we find ourselves in a completely new situation without knowing how the previous problem got resolved and how the MC got into the new one.
Of course he too is clearly favoured by the narration, which in this case means everything is merely done to hurt him.
Everyone else around him feels like nothing more than a wooden statue, only serving to increase his suffering, not like characters we can connect with.
Not even the villain is remotely interested in them. They just exist.
And don't get me wrong. I am not anti MC suffering, but all the characters should feel believable and alive to a degree, even if they aren't important.
I just don't feel anything for Lux during all his suffering, no ounce of sympathy, probably because the narration doesn't give us time to care about him with all the scene jumping and the author can't expect the reader to check out all of his uploaded drabbles, when we paid money for this book.
It might get better later, but I had to drop the book after half of it- which is something I really don't do ordinarily!
I just literally couldn't keep up with anything.
I remember this old man Lux happened to run into and you don't know at first if he was helpful or was going to hurt him and suddenly in the next chapter he was gone and Lux at a totally another place and you just felt dropped into this new situation and had no idea where to go from here, or how you came there.
I regret spending money for this book, when reading the drabbles probably would have done it so much easier for me - and it would have been for free.
The cover is nice to look at, no question, but that is unfortunately not worth the money.
I was hoping for a revised version of the few drabbles I've read, not a completely mess with merely any connections.
I will revisit it eventually and maybe I can ignore it then and see if the rest gets better, but the first half leaves me just incredibly confused and disconnected.
From chapter to the next side characters disappear and we find ourselves in a completely new situation without knowing how the previous problem got resolved and how the MC got into the new one.
Of course he too is clearly favoured by the narration, which in this case means everything is merely done to hurt him.
Everyone else around him feels like nothing more than a wooden statue, only serving to increase his suffering, not like characters we can connect with.
Not even the villain is remotely interested in them. They just exist.
And don't get me wrong. I am not anti MC suffering, but all the characters should feel believable and alive to a degree, even if they aren't important.
I just don't feel anything for Lux during all his suffering, no ounce of sympathy, probably because the narration doesn't give us time to care about him with all the scene jumping and the author can't expect the reader to check out all of his uploaded drabbles, when we paid money for this book.
It might get better later, but I had to drop the book after half of it- which is something I really don't do ordinarily!
I just literally couldn't keep up with anything.
I remember this old man Lux happened to run into and you don't know at first if he was helpful or was going to hurt him and suddenly in the next chapter he was gone and Lux at a totally another place and you just felt dropped into this new situation and had no idea where to go from here, or how you came there.
I regret spending money for this book, when reading the drabbles probably would have done it so much easier for me - and it would have been for free.
The cover is nice to look at, no question, but that is unfortunately not worth the money.
I was hoping for a revised version of the few drabbles I've read, not a completely mess with merely any connections.
I will revisit it eventually and maybe I can ignore it then and see if the rest gets better, but the first half leaves me just incredibly confused and disconnected.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 30, 2021
If you were to read any one scene from this book, you would probably enjoy it as much as I did when perusing Scott Wells' tumblr account. Scott Wells' excerpts and drabbles on social media are what drew me to purchase this book. Unfortunately, this story is not nearly as fine tuned as the rest of his writing.
The sudden POV changes and setting changes gave me whiplash. For the first half of the book, I thought my eyes were constantly skipping over a paragraph or missing important context. For the second half of the book, I finally got used to it.
The characters and premises of this book are extremely interesting, but I find that Wells does not dive into the emotional and physical details of each scene as much as I'd hope for. This book would be twice as long and twice as interesting if each scene was more carefully expanded on. Instead, it feels like the narrator is running a marathon. Every dark or heartfelt moment that I could imagine savoring was often forgotten due to the constant rush into the next scene. Wells obviously has a lot of great ideas, but they all seemed mashed together in one book and very few of these great ideas are stewed upon in the overall plot.
The biggest pet peeve of mine was the constant stuttering dialogue. I could imagine it clearly in my head that a character was stuttering throughout the story after reading the first chapter, yet received s-s-stuttering d-dialogue on every p-p-page that I found more often distracting than pitiful or endearing. Maybe that's my own personal pet peeve, but it is a quirk you will have to get used to with this book.
All that being said, I did not dislike this book. I found the premise entertaining and wished the author spent more time on various scenes and expanded upon the arcs of each character. I LOVE the first line. The ending is fantastic! There are a few aspects (that I will not say due to spoilers) that surprised me and held my attention. Scott Wells has shown he has an exceptional amount of potential that I look forward to see grow with each new story.
The sudden POV changes and setting changes gave me whiplash. For the first half of the book, I thought my eyes were constantly skipping over a paragraph or missing important context. For the second half of the book, I finally got used to it.
The characters and premises of this book are extremely interesting, but I find that Wells does not dive into the emotional and physical details of each scene as much as I'd hope for. This book would be twice as long and twice as interesting if each scene was more carefully expanded on. Instead, it feels like the narrator is running a marathon. Every dark or heartfelt moment that I could imagine savoring was often forgotten due to the constant rush into the next scene. Wells obviously has a lot of great ideas, but they all seemed mashed together in one book and very few of these great ideas are stewed upon in the overall plot.
The biggest pet peeve of mine was the constant stuttering dialogue. I could imagine it clearly in my head that a character was stuttering throughout the story after reading the first chapter, yet received s-s-stuttering d-dialogue on every p-p-page that I found more often distracting than pitiful or endearing. Maybe that's my own personal pet peeve, but it is a quirk you will have to get used to with this book.
All that being said, I did not dislike this book. I found the premise entertaining and wished the author spent more time on various scenes and expanded upon the arcs of each character. I LOVE the first line. The ending is fantastic! There are a few aspects (that I will not say due to spoilers) that surprised me and held my attention. Scott Wells has shown he has an exceptional amount of potential that I look forward to see grow with each new story.
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