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The Everything Box
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bookshelves: bookbeat, books-of-2020, fiction, humour, urban-fantasy
Dec 20, 2020
bookshelves: bookbeat, books-of-2020, fiction, humour, urban-fantasy
How I read this: borrowed through BookBeat audio subscription
Wow this book was exhausting. It felt like a chore, and I wish I had given up, but I just try not to DNF if I can. I can see myself liking it much better, had I read it some 3 years ago. But now it just felt tedious, not funny, not engaging. I was incredibly uninvested in the story or the characters.
I'm giving it 3 stars our of common decency, because I think my slump is affecting me, but it's rounded up from 2.5 for sure. However, if you enjoy urban fantasies, it does tick most of the boxes - just about, and as if it was done in a formulaic manner (like in a "an urban fantasy has to have this, this and that" kind of way). I just found the characters dull and unlikable, and the plot and dynamics kind of generic for an urban fantasy. I've certainly read ones where I felt much more invested than with this one.
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Wow this book was exhausting. It felt like a chore, and I wish I had given up, but I just try not to DNF if I can. I can see myself liking it much better, had I read it some 3 years ago. But now it just felt tedious, not funny, not engaging. I was incredibly uninvested in the story or the characters.
I'm giving it 3 stars our of common decency, because I think my slump is affecting me, but it's rounded up from 2.5 for sure. However, if you enjoy urban fantasies, it does tick most of the boxes - just about, and as if it was done in a formulaic manner (like in a "an urban fantasy has to have this, this and that" kind of way). I just found the characters dull and unlikable, and the plot and dynamics kind of generic for an urban fantasy. I've certainly read ones where I felt much more invested than with this one.
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Reading Progress
November 27, 2020
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Started Reading
December 14, 2020
– Shelved
December 19, 2020
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Finished Reading
December 20, 2020
– Shelved as:
bookbeat
December 20, 2020
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books-of-2020
December 20, 2020
– Shelved as:
fiction
December 20, 2020
– Shelved as:
humour
December 20, 2020
– Shelved as:
urban-fantasy
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Dec 27, 2020 06:31AM
I think you are right - that's what this book felt like to me as well! This is the only one of his that I have read. But I don't think I will be continuing with any other of his books - it is like you say, a little bit too repetitive.
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