Magic Bites
Ratings171
Average rating3.7
DNFed @ 23% 75 pages
I was excited when Jonny suggested this book as our next buddy read. I've been wanting to read something by this author for a while now so I thought this was perfect. unfortunately this book did not work for me.
I first started reading it by listening to the audiobook. The one I found was a dramatized version. I had no idea what that meant when I started listening to it. I just thought it was going to be a normal audiobook. Boy was that no the case. I hated the dramatized version. It was to much so much so that I couldn't even understand what was being said sometimes. I love the idea of a dramatized version but it's just not for me. I then found the eBook on Libby and I tried listening to it while following along but that didn't work either because the audiobook was missing a lot of the text that was in the eBook. I got 13% into the audiobook when I finally decided I was just going to start over by just reading the eBook. I was hoping this would help me to get into it more but alas that didn't help either.
The author throws you into the story immediately which I usually enjoy but we are thrown in with no knowledge of the world and barely get any within the little bit I was able to read. It's definitely fast paced and the lack of world building just left me confused a lot of times not to mention all the different characters being thrown in I couldn't keep up with who was who and who was good or bad. It was just all to much to try to keep up with.
Because of all this I just found myself not caring about anything and every time I put the book down I had to force myself to pick it back up. I really wanted to like this book and I am sad that I didn't. maybe one day if I can find a normal audiobook of it I will give it another try but right now that's probably highly unlikely.
DNFed @ 23% 75 pages
I was excited when Jonny suggested this book as our next buddy read. I've been wanting to read something by this author for a while now so I thought this was perfect. unfortunately this book did not work for me.
I first started reading it by listening to the audiobook. The one I found was a dramatized version. I had no idea what that meant when I started listening to it. I just thought it was going to be a normal audiobook. Boy was that no the case. I hated the dramatized version. It was to much so much so that I couldn't even understand what was being said sometimes. I love the idea of a dramatized version but it's just not for me. I then found the eBook on Libby and I tried listening to it while following along but that didn't work either because the audiobook was missing a lot of the text that was in the eBook. I got 13% into the audiobook when I finally decided I was just going to start over by just reading the eBook. I was hoping this would help me to get into it more but alas that didn't help either.
The author throws you into the story immediately which I usually enjoy but we are thrown in with no knowledge of the world and barely get any within the little bit I was able to read. It's definitely fast paced and the lack of world building just left me confused a lot of times not to mention all the different characters being thrown in I couldn't keep up with who was who and who was good or bad. It was just all to much to try to keep up with.
Because of all this I just found myself not caring about anything and every time I put the book down I had to force myself to pick it back up. I really wanted to like this book and I am sad that I didn't. maybe one day if I can find a normal audiobook of it I will give it another try but right now that's probably highly unlikely.
