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Hunters of the Lost City
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colleen the convivial curmudgeon's review
bookshelves: dystopian-and-post-apoc, fantasy
Apr 07, 2025
bookshelves: dystopian-and-post-apoc, fantasy
2.5, rounded up to 3 for now
I picked up this book because I was looking for an MG dystopian book, and this came up in goodreads list, and the cover drew my attention, and then the blurb made it sound like something I could get into.
It was a bit overly slow going, and the end finale was just kind of...
Ok, let me back up.
The characters were ok, but needed a bit more development. The secondary characters, even Sima, never really felt fully fleshed out - they were just there for Octavia's journey and personal growth. (Also, there was some definite (view spoiler))
The plot itself was pretty predictable. I don't know, maybe it's because I'd recently read (view spoiler), but I immediately knew that the sister (view spoiler)
I also got heavy The Village vibes from the start, and easily guessed that (view spoiler)
And, lastly, I wasn't exactly shocked that the (view spoiler)
I mean, it might be fine for the target age group of the book - they won't be as familiar with all the other stories that this cribbed from, I guess - but, for myself, there were no twists or surprises.
And this, alone, wouldn't be enough to condemn the book, except it kinda took a long, drawn out time to get there, too. Like, a lot of stories are predictable but still written well enough to be exciting, or to get me invested in the characters, and this just didn't quite hit that mark, either.
So, it wasn't terrible. I am glad that I listened to it instead of read it - I think the narrator was good enough to breathe a little more life into it.
I picked up this book because I was looking for an MG dystopian book, and this came up in goodreads list, and the cover drew my attention, and then the blurb made it sound like something I could get into.
It was a bit overly slow going, and the end finale was just kind of...
Ok, let me back up.
The characters were ok, but needed a bit more development. The secondary characters, even Sima, never really felt fully fleshed out - they were just there for Octavia's journey and personal growth. (Also, there was some definite (view spoiler))
The plot itself was pretty predictable. I don't know, maybe it's because I'd recently read (view spoiler), but I immediately knew that the sister (view spoiler)
I also got heavy The Village vibes from the start, and easily guessed that (view spoiler)
And, lastly, I wasn't exactly shocked that the (view spoiler)
I mean, it might be fine for the target age group of the book - they won't be as familiar with all the other stories that this cribbed from, I guess - but, for myself, there were no twists or surprises.
And this, alone, wouldn't be enough to condemn the book, except it kinda took a long, drawn out time to get there, too. Like, a lot of stories are predictable but still written well enough to be exciting, or to get me invested in the characters, and this just didn't quite hit that mark, either.
So, it wasn't terrible. I am glad that I listened to it instead of read it - I think the narrator was good enough to breathe a little more life into it.
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February 27, 2025
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March 30, 2025
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April 5, 2025
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