Book: Superstition by James Blakey
Reviewed by Your_bookish_fantasy
Rating: 2/5
Really dissapointed and just gutted about this one.
I love the cover and the idea of the book but it just screams juvenile and almost like a school assigned project. I really wish it was better as it had so much promise!
It really annoyed me that the author kept describing what every single character was wearing, even the side characters got introduced and then immediately there was a detailed paragraph on their clothes, brands, colours, style etc.. just thrown at you, it was just not needed! And it wasn't written into the story at all, it was just plonked into the middle, so you're reading about something and then your stopped in your tracks with this monstrosity of description.
i was really underwhelmed about 20% in because I felt like we needed more background for the characters and better world building, i just couldnt get hooked or invested in the storyline because the characters didn’t mean anything to me.
To be honest, the beginning of the book didn’t pull me in. I found there were far too many characters thrown right at you all at ince, it was difficult to keep up and to make it more confusing sometimes they were addressed by their first names but on the next page they were being called by their second names. The story gets really bogged down in extras which don't add to the narrative either. A romance angle, something about a homemade internet jammer that will also jam magic, and one dimensional characters with no real substance.
the plot was promising and i like the reporter angle but Jerry is such a self-absorbed so and so, he swaps from one girlfriend to the next but the girls weren't much better hence such an immature high school story rather than college. the cheerleader thing was off putting and written poorly.
The book was centred around superstition and leant in towards Witchcraft but it didn't really have anything to do with bad luck and there was pretty much no witchcraft in it. It felt anticlimactic with the rest of the narrative and like i previously said something I'd expect to read from a teenagers school project.
I kept thinking it's going to get better, a coven of witches is going to come into play or something and it just didn't. Not for me but maybe a much younger reader?