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The City in Glass
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this felt so self indulgent, in the absolute worst way. a collection of creation myths and character concepts that didn't work in singing hills so were lumped together here. it felt amateurish, complete style over substance, which is why i'm so bitter and annoyed here - i KNOW vo can do better, in fact i know she can do better with this very formula, because she's done it a dozen times over with singing hills!
there was perhaps one moment in the book that i genuinely felt captured some magic (view spoiler) but outside of that it was largely made up of what felt like quotes designed to look very good in photosets or taken out of context to be posted on instagram. she even did the deeply cringe sin of triple repeitition in italics: 'a signal waiting for one person who needed to see it, spoke holy and holy and holy. i expect this from tumblr and people trying to hard on ao3, not from this author. and 'had had' turned up twice within about 5 pages of each other, which smacks of laziness to me.
the demon also did not feel particularly demonic. there were occassionaly moments of...extreme pragmatism, i guess. but i think its a pretty poor use of a demon if pragmatic is the best you can do. and before anyone starts on the 'it might not be christian!' then why is there an angel??? why have that dichotomy?
the end note mentions this was written in lockdown, so i'm going to assume vo read a lot of middling destiel fanfiction and hope like the rest of us she has now moved on to something else. hopefully something better, like dune, or one pie-[i am attacked by a thousand bees]
there was perhaps one moment in the book that i genuinely felt captured some magic (view spoiler) but outside of that it was largely made up of what felt like quotes designed to look very good in photosets or taken out of context to be posted on instagram. she even did the deeply cringe sin of triple repeitition in italics: 'a signal waiting for one person who needed to see it, spoke holy and holy and holy. i expect this from tumblr and people trying to hard on ao3, not from this author. and 'had had' turned up twice within about 5 pages of each other, which smacks of laziness to me.
the demon also did not feel particularly demonic. there were occassionaly moments of...extreme pragmatism, i guess. but i think its a pretty poor use of a demon if pragmatic is the best you can do. and before anyone starts on the 'it might not be christian!' then why is there an angel??? why have that dichotomy?
the end note mentions this was written in lockdown, so i'm going to assume vo read a lot of middling destiel fanfiction and hope like the rest of us she has now moved on to something else. hopefully something better, like dune, or one pie-[i am attacked by a thousand bees]
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