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[greghousesgf]

Day 5


A book where you loved the premise but the execution left you cold

I bought this book back in the 90's when I used to belong to a book club. I don't remember the name of the author. It was Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula and Sherlock Holmes vs. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and I thought it was going to be great. it was terrible! Totally boring and some parts of it didn't even make sense. And awful dialogue too. Ugh.

Comments

[refuse2shine]

That does sound like it would be an interesting book. Sorry it was a let down.

I recently read a book like this. The premise of Petra K and the Blackhearts is amazing. It’s about a girl in the slums of a fantasy-style Slavic universe and there’s miniature dragons and even half-dragon/half-humans, but it seemed the author had too many ideas and just shoved so many things in that it just didn’t make a coherent story at all. Plus the main character was just kind of boring and not very well fleshed out at all.

[greghousesgf]

That does sound like an interesting premise. I love dragons and I know very little about Slavic mythology other than Baba Yaga.