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vailynst's review
4.0
12/28/2020 Notes: 3rd Read by Audio
Rating Raised from 3 to 4 Stars
Why? Because
- Narration by Andrea Parsneau is great.
- Due to many questions raised while reading Vol6+7, I decided to re-read from the beginning. The re-read has been fun & more entertaining than I thought it would be. Because there are many plot lines & characters in play, it was interesting to come back & see all of the events with what I know now.
- The series IS fun to re-read and most of the parts that annoyed me the first time around are still annoying.
- Noting the plot holes & inconsistencies. Yet, the story is a lot of fun because it's out there. That's why fantasy is cool.
- 1.5 Days to listen to 62 hours. HA! I love crafting my oddball skills.
Best part of the re-read is noting how details hold up well in the whole series and which ones don't stand at all.
07/16/2020 Notes: 2nd Read by Audio
4.5 Stars for Narration by Andrea Parsneau
3 Stars for Story
Vol2 was totally worth 1 Audible Credit. It's 62 hours.
The issues that keep the story from being 4 or 5 stars are still prevalent. Some of the story did not transfer well to audio. Aspects that I found annoying when I read Vol2 on the website were MORE annoying in audio. It's easier to skim-read than to listen to a crap parts at max speed. =P
I'm still going to get the audiobooks when they are released but I have lost some of the excitement for getting them now.
On the upside, I feel motivated to get back into the webserial! I may actually finish Vol4.
12/09/2019 Notes: 1st Read
I zoomed all of Vol2 and it was tasty fun. Author has an interesting brain.
A+ for Concepts/Characters
C+ for Overall Writing/Consistency/Progress/etc (Lots of cool bits in the whole slogfest of writing but that quality is not consistent.
Rating Raised from 3 to 4 Stars
Why? Because
- Narration by Andrea Parsneau is great.
- Due to many questions raised while reading Vol6+7, I decided to re-read from the beginning. The re-read has been fun & more entertaining than I thought it would be. Because there are many plot lines & characters in play, it was interesting to come back & see all of the events with what I know now.
- The series IS fun to re-read and most of the parts that annoyed me the first time around are still annoying.
- Noting the plot holes & inconsistencies. Yet, the story is a lot of fun because it's out there. That's why fantasy is cool.
- 1.5 Days to listen to 62 hours. HA! I love crafting my oddball skills.
Best part of the re-read is noting how details hold up well in the whole series and which ones don't stand at all.
07/16/2020 Notes: 2nd Read by Audio
4.5 Stars for Narration by Andrea Parsneau
3 Stars for Story
Vol2 was totally worth 1 Audible Credit. It's 62 hours.
The issues that keep the story from being 4 or 5 stars are still prevalent. Some of the story did not transfer well to audio. Aspects that I found annoying when I read Vol2 on the website were MORE annoying in audio. It's easier to skim-read than to listen to a crap parts at max speed. =P
I'm still going to get the audiobooks when they are released but I have lost some of the excitement for getting them now.
On the upside, I feel motivated to get back into the webserial! I may actually finish Vol4.
12/09/2019 Notes: 1st Read
I zoomed all of Vol2 and it was tasty fun. Author has an interesting brain.
A+ for Concepts/Characters
C+ for Overall Writing/Consistency/Progress/etc (Lots of cool bits in the whole slogfest of writing but that quality is not consistent.
kuhu's review
4.0
I started this volume almost the second I finished the first one, and most of my feelings for the first one still apply. It is an emotional whirlwind, and it gets me excited about fantasy world history, which does not happen often. It was nice to see the characters through each other's perspectives. Knowing how Erin works from Ryoka's perspective, really highlights how odd her behaviour really seems, and how magically it works. I'm excited to start the next one.
carol26388's review
3.0
This is book popcorn. If you enjoy traditional fantasy that has individual characters doing their individual things but sometimes getting caught up in big events, this will likely be right up your alley.
Warning: it's written as a high-output web serial, which means Pirateaba puts up a chapter twice a week, at some insane word count of like 10k a week. I use laptops, not tablets, which is absolutely not the way to read a gazillion-word book. Thanks to a kind friend, I read this in book form on my kindle, which is the only way I can really do it. I would be SO HAPPY to pay actual dollars for this to be formatted and published, so get on it, please.
This 'book' has a number of things happen to The Wandering Inn's Innkeeper, Erin, and the other refugee from America, Royoka. Though primarily focusing on those two, it also includes a number of points of views from other characters. When Erin discovers the properties of faerie-flowers, a number of these points of view take place in flash-back, signified by italicized writing. One point of view includes that of an adventurer, which did little for me, as he is clearly destined to be red-shirt (I think; this is not a spoiler but a reflection of a class). Another is of a crazy, acquisitive king, another of a necromancer. Honestly, skippable. I figure anyone with that high of word count isn't expecting me to read all of them. There's also an installment where Royoka reads a history of the last world-war. Nice background, but I tend to be more interested in the single-character arcs here.
Plot-wise, it feels like larger world-events are starting to coalesce, so some of the experiences of the main characters occur as they get inadvertently involved. Royoka makes great strides (ha-ha) in understanding more of the world-details, which I found interesting.
Pirateaba is good with emotion and there is a very touching development with the Gnolls. However, she's also inconsistent with emotion in her single-character heads. I can't quite work out if its intentional or not. I think so, as I think the women are in their early 20s.
Overall, a perfect kind of read for a vacation when I had oodles of reading time.
Caveat: I also have the ability to skim, and am untroubled by using it if I'm not particularly interested in a given character once it seems they won't be germane (ie. I read them when they first show up, but my investment decreases if they don't impact main characters' lives). That happens here. I did skim. Three stars is because I actually really liked much of this book. If someone got Pirateaba with a solid editor, I think there's the bones of a much better and more interesting Wheel of Time type series happening here (you know, minus the sexism).
Warning: it's written as a high-output web serial, which means Pirateaba puts up a chapter twice a week, at some insane word count of like 10k a week. I use laptops, not tablets, which is absolutely not the way to read a gazillion-word book. Thanks to a kind friend, I read this in book form on my kindle, which is the only way I can really do it. I would be SO HAPPY to pay actual dollars for this to be formatted and published, so get on it, please.
This 'book' has a number of things happen to The Wandering Inn's Innkeeper, Erin, and the other refugee from America, Royoka. Though primarily focusing on those two, it also includes a number of points of views from other characters. When Erin discovers the properties of faerie-flowers, a number of these points of view take place in flash-back, signified by italicized writing. One point of view includes that of an adventurer, which did little for me, as he is clearly destined to be red-shirt (I think; this is not a spoiler but a reflection of a class). Another is of a crazy, acquisitive king, another of a necromancer. Honestly, skippable. I figure anyone with that high of word count isn't expecting me to read all of them. There's also an installment where Royoka reads a history of the last world-war. Nice background, but I tend to be more interested in the single-character arcs here.
Plot-wise, it feels like larger world-events are starting to coalesce, so some of the experiences of the main characters occur as they get inadvertently involved. Royoka makes great strides (ha-ha) in understanding more of the world-details, which I found interesting.
Pirateaba is good with emotion and there is a very touching development with the Gnolls. However, she's also inconsistent with emotion in her single-character heads. I can't quite work out if its intentional or not. I think so, as I think the women are in their early 20s.
Overall, a perfect kind of read for a vacation when I had oodles of reading time.
Caveat: I also have the ability to skim, and am untroubled by using it if I'm not particularly interested in a given character once it seems they won't be germane (ie. I read them when they first show up, but my investment decreases if they don't impact main characters' lives). That happens here. I did skim. Three stars is because I actually really liked much of this book. If someone got Pirateaba with a solid editor, I think there's the bones of a much better and more interesting Wheel of Time type series happening here (you know, minus the sexism).
kreylix's review
5.0
This was better than the first volume, and just a treat for readers of high fantasy. Highly recommended. It's also crazy long, but that's great.
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