The Grimoire of Grave Fates | 
bailedNot for me. A murder mystery at a magical school but each chapter follows a different student written by a different author as they try to discover what happened. I love the idea, love some of the characters we‘ve met because they have such interesting powers, but it‘s just not executed well. Over 100 pages in and I‘m not attached to anyone since you only meet each student once and some characters are extremely stereotypical and over the top. ⬇️
RainyDayReading It‘s repetitive because each new student goes over what pieces of the puzzle they have which is the same stuff the others have that you spent a full chapter going over with them already. It‘s a bummer because I was looking forward to this. Maybe if it was 4 or 5 authors writing this instead of 18 it would feel more cohesive and not like a collection of not well connected short stories but like an actual story. 14mo
RainyDayReading #magicalmonsters #scarathlon #bookspinbingo This was my #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks 14mo
peanutnine Aww that's a bummer it wasn't executed well. I thought it sounded like an interesting premise 14mo
TheAromaofBooks That's a shame, this sounds like such a fun concept!! 14mo
RainyDayReading @peanutnine @TheAromaofBooks It has such a cool premise!! The individual chapters I read were good! But it just wasn‘t working as a whole. If it had been an anthology of stories of students at this magic school rather than a shared narrative I think it would have worked better. 14mo
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