Scott Rhine's Reviews > The Last Wizards' Ball
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
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I’ve been a fan of the Gunnie Rose magical alternate history and read the first 5 episodes. I’m glad Rose has returned as the narrator because I didn’t enjoy Felicia’s POV as much. It opens with recapping the series during Felicia’s (and Alice’s) society coming-out dance and then plunges into multiple murder attempts by Axis agents preparing for WWII. A lot is going on that Rose doesn’t know about, but she trusts her family implicitly...until the last 10 pages upend everything.
At 192 pages, it felt short when their normal length is above 300. The prose in this novel is choppier than before, with swaths of one-sentence paragraphs. In some areas, key description is missing. The sudden appearance of commercial transatlantic airplanes on p137 came out of nowhere. This didn’t happen until June 28, 1939 with our much higher-tech world. The final chapter felt abrupt, out of character for Rose, and vague; however, it seemed to be a conclusion to her part of the sad tale.
A 3.5 overall, but I rounded up
At 192 pages, it felt short when their normal length is above 300. The prose in this novel is choppier than before, with swaths of one-sentence paragraphs. In some areas, key description is missing. The sudden appearance of commercial transatlantic airplanes on p137 came out of nowhere. This didn’t happen until June 28, 1939 with our much higher-tech world. The final chapter felt abrupt, out of character for Rose, and vague; however, it seemed to be a conclusion to her part of the sad tale.
A 3.5 overall, but I rounded up
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Finished Reading
December 25, 2024
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