Jo (aelin’s version)✨'s Reviews > Mischief Acts

This was a book I purchased at an indie bookstore and was one I was incredibly excited to dig into. Unfortunately the cover and the description were probably the best things about it. I liked the initial start where it told a compelling tale of Herne the Hunter but entirely in verse. I like it when books take the unconventional route and, as an avid poetry enjoyer, I thoroughly appreciate when things are conveyed in that format. I was fooled into thinking the rest of the book would continue in a similar vein as it reverts back to normal prose that is occasionally interspersed with a smattering of poetry at the end of every segment. The prose in my opinion was probably one of the boandest things I’ve read in a long while. The concept was that it would write from the perspective of different characters across different time periods and somehow link it to nature but all I got was pages and pages of droning nonsense that didn’t even remotely make any sense. It was so difficult to follow a clear storyline and most of everything didn’t even make sense conceptually. Not to mention this book was so weird. And not even weird in a good sense like ‘Mexican Gothic’, ‘The Last Tale of The Flower Bride’ and ‘Juniper and Thorn’, it was just weird in a dull, pretentious way. I kept losing interest and the only reason I reached the end was my determination to plough through because I’d spent more than I would pay for a paperback for it since it was from an indie store, and also the fact that my biggest pet peeve is myself not finishing a book. Overall, the main reason this even gets 2 stars is because I mainly appreciated the poetry.