Fynh liest reviewed The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
Didn't quite catch me at the beginning
3 stars
The book felt to me like there were some ideas that weren't properly followed through, because constantly new aspects were introduced that ended up at a loose end without making something out of them and that also didn't really contribute to the story. The usual "ah, now all this stuff from before makes sense" moment that I know from other books stayed absent. Example: The eponymous Library of the Dead was rather a sideshow and made up only a very small fraction of the story. Besides, the narrative style didn't hook me, but that's just a taste issue, I can imagine other readers enjoying it.
Luckily in about the last third, the plot finally became more coherent which made it more intriguing and it also took some speed, and thus for at least some time the book became a pageturner for me.
The end, however, I found a little too …
The book felt to me like there were some ideas that weren't properly followed through, because constantly new aspects were introduced that ended up at a loose end without making something out of them and that also didn't really contribute to the story. The usual "ah, now all this stuff from before makes sense" moment that I know from other books stayed absent. Example: The eponymous Library of the Dead was rather a sideshow and made up only a very small fraction of the story. Besides, the narrative style didn't hook me, but that's just a taste issue, I can imagine other readers enjoying it.
Luckily in about the last third, the plot finally became more coherent which made it more intriguing and it also took some speed, and thus for at least some time the book became a pageturner for me.
The end, however, I found a little too predictable and clichéd.
