Review: Flower of Song and Silver

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Book information

Title: Flower of Song and Silver

Author: Ryver Knight, Kris Ruhler

Where to buy: Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, BookBub.


This review includes spoilers, read at your own risk.


*I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.*

Likes:

Good representation and clarification of emotions of the characters.

Interesting, exciting, and not boring in the slightest.

Dislikes:

At first she is letting the stranger in even though she has a bad gut feeling about it, which was fine, but then she decided to actually listen to her gut feeling for something smaller of danger for telling the stranger that she isn't alone. If she still fears him then why did she even let him in? 

Barely description of anything. One scene goes to another in such a short time. (Only exception for the glowfish pond scene).

Extreme mood swings of the main character. From 'I don't trust him' to 'I trust him' and not even the slightest reasoning 'For whatever reason, she did' (page 20). Instead of reasoning it with his charm or anything, no nothing.


He said, she asked. He smiled. All the time. No rich vocabulary.

The beginning of the sentences was too often the same. And one after the other. (Page 23 as an example).

The ending wasn't my cup of tea as the protagonist transformed herself into a big creature to eat them all. It didn't make sense to me. She had the magic in her hands and then she could fully transform? There wasn't even a reasoning behind this, it just happened, out of the blue.

The ending was predictable, 'cause the story was too short to actually make a reader connected to the villain who seemed fine at first and as the main character also had second-thoughts the readers did the same. And when the scene came where right after apologising the villain said that the glowfished eat eachother I knew that something was about to come, a classic used for many stories, apologising, saying something off and then attacking.


How it works: Only everything that is lower than 9 gets reduced from the final rating. Depending on how strong it inflicted the overall enjoyment of reading it affects differently.

[ Story 8 / 10 ] -

[ Characters 7 / 10 ] -

[ Triggering 0 / 10 ] +

[ Topic/Genre 10 / 10 ] +

[ Writing style 6 / 10 ] -

[ Grammatic and spelling 10 / 10 ] +

[ Ending 6 / 10 ] -

Final Rating

3/5

The story was too short to make a reader connect to any character. If the shorty would have been a bit longer, word choice was a bit richer and the decisions the protagonist made would have a better reasoning then I would have given it more stars. But I think reviews are there to make someone help with their work and not criticising them. If the story would have been perfect then I wouldn't have something to write about in my review.

Started the book: 05. March 2024

Finished the book: 05. March 2024

Wrote the review: 05. March 2024
Hi I'm Mika! Reviewer of ARC's but I also review published books. My favourite genres are horror, fantasy and graphic novels. I tend to be a strict reviewer, but my average rating for small presses is 3.7

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