Helpful Score: 4
I thought this book was a complete mess. After falling in love with the world that Snyder created with Poison Study, the books slowly decline in story and character development. Storm Glass picks up a few years after Fire Study with Opal as the main character.
Using too much dialog and not enough scene setting and description, I had a hard time feeling connected to any of the characters. Using names like Tricky, Sir, Blue Eyes, and Crafty as character names really turned me off. I wanted the author to show us who these people were instead of using their names to describe them.
Since there was such little background (you had to know about the world from the previous books), I felt like I was living inside Opals head. The first person narration gets old since Opal is a very weak character. Her constant doubting of herself gets really tiresome. Also, I had trouble believing her emotions and motives. The pain over her sisters death felt trite. She just didnt feel like a deep character to me. Her falling in love with the Stormdancer after barely getting to know him left me confused. She sleeps with Urick even though she doesnt have strong feelings for him. When you discover that Uricks not Urick, I felt like Snyder just threw that in to forward the plot.
When I finished reading the book, I didnt feel any closure. The antagonists motives were hard to follow or believe. All of this is happening because people want the power from the glass orbs? Opal is kidnapped so she can find the imprisoned Warpers. Opal falls in love with the stormdancer she barely spent time with. Yet she sleeps with someone else. And we get it, glass blowing is neat. Move along. If as much time was spent developing the characters as in describing the process of blowing glass *every time it was done*, then the book would be much better. I will read the next book to see if it gets any better. But Im not hopeful.
I gave it 1.5 stars since I did finish reading the book... I kept hoping it would get better.
Using too much dialog and not enough scene setting and description, I had a hard time feeling connected to any of the characters. Using names like Tricky, Sir, Blue Eyes, and Crafty as character names really turned me off. I wanted the author to show us who these people were instead of using their names to describe them.
Since there was such little background (you had to know about the world from the previous books), I felt like I was living inside Opals head. The first person narration gets old since Opal is a very weak character. Her constant doubting of herself gets really tiresome. Also, I had trouble believing her emotions and motives. The pain over her sisters death felt trite. She just didnt feel like a deep character to me. Her falling in love with the Stormdancer after barely getting to know him left me confused. She sleeps with Urick even though she doesnt have strong feelings for him. When you discover that Uricks not Urick, I felt like Snyder just threw that in to forward the plot.
When I finished reading the book, I didnt feel any closure. The antagonists motives were hard to follow or believe. All of this is happening because people want the power from the glass orbs? Opal is kidnapped so she can find the imprisoned Warpers. Opal falls in love with the stormdancer she barely spent time with. Yet she sleeps with someone else. And we get it, glass blowing is neat. Move along. If as much time was spent developing the characters as in describing the process of blowing glass *every time it was done*, then the book would be much better. I will read the next book to see if it gets any better. But Im not hopeful.
I gave it 1.5 stars since I did finish reading the book... I kept hoping it would get better.
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