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There was way more romance than fighting a dragons it was clearly the story of two characters falling in love for most of the book. This did not make it a bad thing but I did feel like I could predict everything that was going to happen.


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Moth and Spark A Novel Anne Leonard 9780670015702 Books Reviews

Review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide

From the reviews I’ve been seeing so far, it seems like MOTH AND SPARK will either be a “love it” or “hate it” book and I haven’t seen too many things in between. I only bothered to check other reviews after I was mid-way through so unfortunately you know what that means… I was struggling.

I felt like the book started off strongly — we’re introduced to dragons, mystery, action, and intrigue — but after the prologue and the first few chapters, things really, really slowed down for me. I’m okay with being introduced to a fast-paced opening scene and then slowing a book down to start getting deeper into world-building and character development, but the pacing overall just didn’t work for me.

Once the two main characters of the book go through the initial events that set up the entire plot, the book really slows down. Corin returns from the North somewhat changed, although even he himself is unsure quite how, and having survived a battle or two, he resumes life back at court. Once Tam witnesses a gruesome death, presumably be poison, she begins the games and politics of court as well. Court. One of my least favorite things about historical fiction or high fantasy. I just struggle with it so much. The politics of it all, the wedding plots, the forbidden dating between classes… It’s just something that doesn’t quite interest me unless it’s done juuuust right. Unfortunately in MOTH AND SPARK, it just wasn’t holding my attention. I felt like so much of the book was inside of the palace and just not enough time out exploring the world, which is one of my favorite elements of fantasy novels!

I just was not a fan of the romance. Some feedback was that the romance was very insta-lovely which honestly, I don’t entirely mind. (Hey, my own relationship started out with insta-love, more or less. True story.) The thing I did mind was that Corin seemed TOO affected by Tam. I understand it’s easily to be entirely infatuated upon meeting someone but… How can I put this? You know how in most books that are accused of insta-love, it’s the girl falling for the guy and then their entire world is about that guy and everything else important is forgotten? I had that sort of feeling about Corin falling for Tam. I guess it’s impossible to really know much about his character before the book, but I just had that his character just changed upon meeting her.

The romance just took up too much of the book for me. I wasn’t connecting with it so I don’t know if it just felt like a lot for me since I wasn’t as interested in it or if it really did take up that much of the book! I was given a teaser of dragons in the beginning — Dragons! Magic! Visions! Mystery! — and yet, I felt like I was left pining for it for too long. I do love romance in fantasy and I love action in fantasy. I can’t say that there wasn’t a good balance because I think there was a fair amount of both but they didn’t seem to flow well with each other. Any period of constant action or constant romance in fantasy can become tiring and they just felt like very distinct sections and very separated. Action and romance can be easily intertwined to keep the book moving and I think the separation of the two really hurt the pacing.

Overall, this just wasn’t the book for me. The romance seemed to dominate the book while I was reading and while I do appreciate heavy romances in fantasy as well as world building, I just didn’t get into the groove of this romance so it truly impeded my progress and overall opinion of the book. I think too many exciting moments and reveals came far too late when my attention and patience was already waning.
DNFed.

Reason number one
Apart from the prologue and some vague mentions about Dragons and lost magic, there is no magic / fantasy in this story. Instead you are treated to a highly unconvincing historical, pseudo-medieval romance with insta-love and some such. This was really not what I expected or anticipated.

Reason number two
The annoying female main character. Tam. Never thought I would write this ever about anyone but she is so perfect, that I had an insta-hate moment there. She is not only “stunning, (…) with the most astonishingly beautiful face he had ever seen”, she is also totally unaware of her attractive looks and an epitome of womanly virtue.

"She was a well-bred and well-educated young woman, even an accomplished one. She spoke three languages besides her own and could draw, sing, play the piano, and do embroidery, all of it inoffensively. She could converse on poetry and morals with equal grace. She had improved her mind by extensive reading. But her education did not end there. She dressed wounds, mixed medicines, sat by the dying. She helped her father with his experiments and his writings. When he saw something interesting under the glass, it was she who drew the picture for him. She had done other work too, assisting her brother with his accounts, shipping lists."

Of course she can even sit so quietly "that a butterfly lighted briefly on the flower in her hair.

Reason number three
The awful descriptive writing. Never have I ever seen so much info-dumping on the historical facts and semi-poetical, semi-prosaic descriptions.

- There is a whole paragraph dedicated to archaeological findings around the capital only to emphasize Tam’s sentiment of feeling “humbled”.
- There is no escaping the many gowns and fashion accounts or the countless remarks on the countryside, architecture or interior design of the palace.
- There is no difference in the two POVs the story is written in. Tam’s and Corin’s voices are totally alike. Why even bother to write in two POVs when you can’t differentiate between the two characters?
- Last but not least The many confusing expressions like ”draw, sing, play the piano, and do embroidery, all of it inoffensively” or “She smelled stone and ice”, which I admit could be useful if you're looking for a cave. The smelling part is really baffling. All in all Tam and her Prince can smell like bloodhounds. A total of 63 times they smell things like damp air, death, water, they can smell if a wind is cold, and their noses even pick up on salt in the air. How something can smell salty is beyond me. Things can smell "angular and sharp"? Say what? Apparently even people can be gamey-smelling.

So feel free to read it for yourself but be aware that there is not much fantasy!
Moth and Spark drew me in from the very beginning. A strong prince, a clever woman, dragons, and a strange destiny bringing them all together in the midst of a war to save their country. Very cleverly plotted and well written. I am looking forward to Anne Leonard's next books.
Basically unreadable. I did not finish this book.

The quality of the writing was significantly below par. Short, choppy sentences. Grammar issues everywhere. I found myself having to reread sentences to figure out what they meant.

Long, long descriptive passages that seem to have NO point. 182 words to describe a barn setting that is irrelevant to the story line and is IN the story line for only two pages. Scene-setting language is fine--but it should be useful or relevant to the narrative in some way.

There's nothing unique about the character and the language used to familiarize the reader with them tends to cliche in the extreme, e.g., "She was stunning, black-haired and slender with the most astonishingly beautiful face he had ever seen." Scenes are banal, characters are colorless, narrative is choppy. I read almost anything, but couldn't finish this.
I read three chapters and still didn't care at all. Didn't finish.
There was way more romance than fighting a dragons it was clearly the story of two characters falling in love for most of the book. This did not make it a bad thing but I did feel like I could predict everything that was going to happen.