Book Club - Seven Recipes for Revolution by Ryan Rose - Discussion Page

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There's an advantage to breaking a bone in my knee...I have just finished the book, after what felt like an endless slog! I feel like the premise was good, but the execution, for me, was definitely lacking.

The initial descriptions of butchering an animal (albeit a fictional, mythical creature) whilst it was still alive was the first thing that made me think this book wasn't for me.

But I pushed on through and persevered.

Unfortunately, as the story (sort of) developed, I kept getting lost in the details. The terminology became confusing, and I was never sure who was good and who was bad. I turned to Google so many times for clarification and found none. I couldn't keep track of the creatures.

There was a lot of waffle. I skipped over the recipes, and found the descriptions of food and cooking cheesy and overly sentimental.

I don't think we needed the pronoun references every time a character was introduced. The romance was laughable and the dialogue around it was cringe worthy.

There were moments of absolute death and destruction, but then the story just kept moving forward, and it felt like those deaths/ruins were just forgotten. 

I couldn't understand how Paprick could return to classes after the initial conflicts. 

I just found the whole thing to be a messy, sprawling tale of confusion.

Maybe I should listen to the audiobook to see if that improves the experience!

I'm definitely looking forward to hearing what everyone else thinks!

Seven Recipes for Revelation – 4/10 – Sink

My audiobook never arrived, so I ended up listening to it on Spotify. I managed to listen to most of it but ran out of hours before I got to the end.

It really wasn’t my kind of book, to be honest. I found it quite hard to follow at times, and with limited listening hours, I couldn’t go back over bits I hadn’t quite understood, which didn’t help.

I never really got into it and can’t say I was too disappointed when I ran out of listening time!

1. 4/10 – Sink!

I'm almost a third in. It's not a book I can say I'm particularly enjoying. I'm not invested in the main character and I find the story confusing.  I'll carry on but its more of a chore than a pleasure!