Jubilee Manor

by Bethany Hagen

[shannonmiz]

This may be more “it’s me” than the book, because I only liked the first one moderately. I did think I needed to know what happened next though. (Again, wrong.) I have reasons for not liking it, but boredom was number one. The rest?

Everything just felt anticlimactic and unimportant. Like, I guess some of the twists and such were supposed to cause surprise, but even if I didn’t see them coming, I just didn’t find anything too particularly exciting.
There were so. many. characters. Seriously, who were all those people?! The names… too many names. I couldn’t keep them straight, which led to even more not caring.

I still don’t get the world building. There were these mentions of stuff in the first book that I thought would expand the world building in this book but then all of that just kind of vanished?

When bad things befell characters, no one in the book seemed to care any more than I did. Like, I didn’t care because I was bored, what was everyone else’s excuse?

So yeah, I really wanted to care. I just didn’t. I feel like if you loved the first book, this might be a good fit. If you were on the fence… this probably won’t help matters.