Kimberly's Reviews > The Wizard of London

I thought the premise was good, and there were a few interesting characters I like enough to keep me going. At first, Nan; I love how she is street-wise, resourceful, and exact. And then, Grey and Neville. I love Isabelle Harton, although she seems too perfect to be true. To me she represents an ideal as she embodies equality, harmony, motherly and unconditional love, maturity and a down-to-earth attitude towards life.

Okay. Other than that, I honestly don't know what the point of the story is. It's not horrible, but it's all over the place, and it gets horrendously boring and time and time again, confusing. For one, I thought Sarah was going to be the protagonist, since she is introduced first as the primary character, and she's even on the back cover, for Goodness' sake. But instead, the story is entirely focused on Nan, though I'm not sure how the story evolves around her anyhow. The book is titled Wizard of London, but he does not appear until halfway through the book. There isn't a clear sense of conflict, because the villain doesn't appear after the midpoint. There's a bunch of random things happening and none of it have anything to do with the story (what story?) I have no idea what the characters arcs are, and the plot is too thin to hold the characters together in one narrative. And omg, don't get me started on the back stories. Pages and pages of them. I was just like, why? This is absolutely irrelevant!

Anyway. I could not finish the book because I could not see the point anymore. I wanted to push a little bit further because I love the two birds and I want to see what happens to them, but why are they in the story?

To be fair, I didn't hate the book. I just lost any incentive to continue. So I guess, that's that.