Thorn (Dauntless Path, #1)

by Intisar Khanani

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Al principio, me gusta como la 'acción', si podemos llamarla así, comienza de inmediato. No hay largos párrafos de introducción que haya que sortear para llegar a lo que de verdad nos concierne. No, la historia abre con el suceso que pone en movimiento todo. At the beginning, I like how the 'action', if we may call it that way, starts right away. There're no long, burdensome introductory paragraphs we have to sort through to get to the real stuff. No, the story opens with the event that sets everything else in motion.

What I didn't like, however, was how confusing things got as the story progressed. It wasn't making any sense for a while. And there's a fine line between leaving stuff out to give the reader room for imagination, and having him asking himself 'wtf?'.

Y hay demasiados personajes. Más de los que son necesarios. No puedo recordar los nombres de las personas con las que Alyrra 'Thorn' se estaba quedando excepto por Violet y Laurel, porque sus roles tuvieron un impacto en la historia. And... there're also too many characters. I can't remember half the names of the people Alyrra 'Thorn' was staying with, except for Violet and Laurel, and that's just because the made several appearances and actually did things.

Unfortunately, this novel was bland in more than one aspect, but above all the little things, the biggest flaw, in my opinion, was how everything seemed to be disconnected. I feel like a lot of the things that happened were mostly a filler for the real story, which took soo long to take place because we had a lot of description about how much Thorn enjoyed being a goose girl and his little goose boy companion who was always looking at her, like ALL THE TIME, and she'd never say anything about it. And there's a talking horse, and then faeries and it's just... all over the place.

I was tempted to DNF several times.