MØRKEALVEN del en: alene
To start, the book is weird to read, all the names have very English fantasy inspired names just to name a few: Casp, Gross, Othello and Tem. Firstly, these become unnatural names to read in Norwegian and you are completely pulled out of the setting. It seems as if the author has wanted and hoped for an English translation of the book so that the names seem more natural on an international basis. But in Norwegian, this does not work at all. Secondly, the names seem like this is not an original Norwegian book, and has only been translated, but IT IS NOT. I could excuse weird and stiff dialogue it if was translated, but this is the original text, and its ASS.Difficult and unnatural names for readers and stiff dialogue make the whole reading experience really bad (but surprisingly unintentionally funny).
The dialogue is at best ok and at worst groundbreaking idiotic. All the characters have the same "voice", they speak in the same way, whether they are a teacher or a 10-year-old. This makes it difficult to tell characters apart when it comes to personality and figure out what makes them unique, and also makes it hard to even care ofr them.
The magic system is also the most wack I've seen in a long time. Firstly, we have different races such as elves (both dark and light), sirens, forest people (whatever that is), humans and cat people we can see in the background On top of that, we have that all the spechies live in one of 5 different countries. Clubs, diamonds, spades, hearts and jokers. Humans live in hearts, the elves and forest people live in clover, sirens live in diamond and I don't really know who lives in spades, I think it's hinted that that's where the dark elves lived, but I'm a little unsure. So the world is briefly card inspired, cool! Do they have any magic powers that build on this concept?? NO!!Elves have magic based on their zodiac signs. If they are an earth sign, they have done magic, if they have fire signs, they have fire magic, etc. Dark elves can't do this magic and have "dark magic" ooooo scary. Anyway, what I'm trying to get across here is that there are cool concepts all this here, but they don't make sense in relation to each other at the same time. There are too many concepts in the air at the same time and there is simply too much. I would also say that everyone suffers from "same face syndrome", everyone looks the same in the face no matter how old they are... I would not mind this whole book as a Webtoon but not praised in Norwegian libraries.