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Soul Journey
- Soul Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mae Ruling
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
It has been many lifetimes since the cycle began.
The cycle that still haunts Annisa Lawson.
A spell cast in desperation to help, which only caused heartache.
Now, Annisa has found her way out of the varying repeats of her past, only to bring more danger to herself and those around her. Now she must learn to survive with the help of her friends: Chase, Penelope, and Landon have all gone through each life cycle with Annisa. Sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Now that Annisa has broken the cycle of their collective punishment, she finds that she needs her friends more than ever to keep their enemies, known, and unknown, at bay. As the group of friends learn of their souls' journeys through their many life cycles, they must also learn to control the magick they have discovered within themselves and each other in order to defeat the most feared assassin in their world.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Abril
- 27-05-22
Amazing narration, writing needs more showing
First off, narration, different voices and pacing was really great, all that achieved by Mae Ruling. Definitely will look out for other audiobooks she might narrate.
In summary, this is a YA highschool drama with supernatural elements with an awesome premise and world building, but has a long way to go in regards of showing, telling and foreshadowing.
I will not be reading the rest of the series, though.
In detail:
*Too much telling, too little showing*
dialogue and descriptions are used as a crutch to explain to the reader what's going on instead of showing it through a scene and letting reader figure it out. Foreshadowing and hints could help with this.
*info dump*
Dialogue and internal dialogue's only purpose seems to be explaining what's happening or why it's happening. Author should probably look up about "cow tools" in the writing community.
*Unrealistic dialogue*
Every character agrees with each other too easy and quickly. Even "bad guys".
No one has negative feelings for more than a scene, they're too "mature".
*MC could be considered a Mary-Sue*
MC is too perfect. Her flaws aren't even really treated as flaws. This isn't an interview where you say your biggest weakness is perfectionism.
From chapter 1 it's repeated to us how perfect MC's life was.
Maybe it's more of an author self-insert, about how she would've liked to react and what kind of relationships she'd like to have.
*Insta love*
MC falls in love with new character from chapter 1, scene 1. Even when having a boyfriend of years. Kinda cringy in the first quarter of the book.
To be fair, insta love is just hard to swallow in general.
*Highschool drama > supernatural*
80% of the book was more about teenage relationships and writing about school than about the supernatural element.
Also, it was too obvious there would be a supernatural element. Everyone kept looking at MC as if they knew something she didn't. All the time. It could've been hinted at subtly a few times instead.
*World building*
Awesome premise. Great world building in general. A whole society, rules and original elements. My only complain is that the real " bad guys" don't seem to have a clear reason to be evil.
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