DNF Review: Wicked like a wildfire by Lana Popovic

1.5/5 stars (DNF)

What's that saying? 
"Don't judge a book by its cover."? Well it goes both ways. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cover, but the novel itself? Not so much. 

But let's start with the good stuff:
- The cover, obviously.
- This book will make you hungry will all of its desert descriptions. Like "so hungry can't stop drooling hungry!" 
- This book made me want to buy myself flowers, many flowers. 
​- It also made me want to wear more perfume (which I mean, I'm allergic to, but whatever). 
- It's set in Montenegro, which I know nothing about, so I liked that aspect.
- The writing is pretty - if you're into it. 

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Was I into it? Not really, I read 5 pages of it and the only word that kept running through my mind was - pretentious, pretentious, pretentious. 
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It felt like the author just really liked using her dictionary - trying to fit as many descriptions and adjectives into one page as possible. Think Strange the Dreamer amount of words, but without the fluidness of flow. Think of Night Circus, but not nearly as magical (well, actually not magical at all). 

The main character, Iris is a bitchy bitch for no apparent reason. She's "breathtakingly beautiful, but she herself doesn't think so." NO, thank you! 
Her sister Lina is the only character I somewhat liked, although to be honest Lina really lacked in character development area. They all did. 
​All of the characters had as much dimension as a sheet of paper. 
The plot? I don't know if there was a plot, but apparently I never got to it. And I generously gave up after 215 pages. 

​Characters (meaning Iris mostly) make the dumbest and most contradicting decisions. The plot is slow, the descriptions are overbearing - and overall it's just nothing new. Also main character likes to mix alcohol and drugs and being a little whore with magic, and I'm sorry but what? 

Good ideas - poor execution. Sorry book, better luck elsewhere.