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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I’m not sure why I feel compelled to keep reading these books. The author has good story ideas, but the execution just doesn’t work for me. Here’s just a random list of thoughts I’ve had reading these books:
- I feel like I must be dumb because the ratings on these books are so high but I literally can’t understand what’s happening in the story. Sometimes I have to reread a page because I’m like, wait, what?? And not like “wow, amazing” like “I don’t understand what just happened. Did something happen? I can’t tell.” But at the same time, the writing can be kind of pretty at times and the author certainly has a variety of ways to communicate emotions. So the writing is both good and bad. It’s confusing.
- I have zero understanding of the world. I don’t understand the various political groups, where nations are in relation to each other, how large the world is, etc. I don’t understand the gods, the magic, the various beings (what they look like, what they do, why they do it, etc). And this is 3 books in at this point. I still don’t understand anything. I feel like the author does understand her world because characters will have conversations that sounds like they know what they’re talking about, but I feel like a child listening in on the adults talking and I don’t understand what’s happening. Again, either I’m dumb and everyone else gets it, or the author just isn’t explaining this stuff well.
- all the POVs felt unnecessary
- still don’t understand why Kai exists or why he gives a crap about Orlaith because she’s terrible. Speaking of Orlaith…
- Orlaith is one of the worst FMCs I’ve ever read. For three books now she’s had TSTL syndrome (too stupid to live). She’s immature and incapable of learning from her mistakes. One of my fav situations in this book: after having self-reflection, she decides that she really needs to think things through better (you know, after she murders Rhordyn based on info from someone she doesn’t like without talking to R about it), and she decides Tali is someone she should listen to. Tali tells Orlaith to stay in this hotel room and to absolutely not tell anyone R is dead. So what does she do? 2 seconds later she jumps out the window, climbs over the city wall where there’s all these random diseased people and almost gets touched. Then she immediately gets captured by Mr. Bad Guy (but like, why is he so bad? Still don’t get it). Mr. Bad Guy (Cainon) asks her, hey, did you kill R? She immediately confesses. I died. What happened to that introspection???!?
- Orlaith gets another bullet point because I’m not done with her. Her character is all over the place. For the first half of this book she’s blabbing stuff to people she shouldn’t (see point above), then when R returns (because obviously he can’t die) she won’t freaking talk to him. She just keeps avoiding him, even though when she thought he was dead she kept wishing for another chance to talk to him. Like, what?
- I don’t understand how things escalated to the point where Orlaith was on death’s door at the end. It just felt… unnatural? And then she was in Kai’s giant mouth? See I’m just confused. What. Is. Happening?
- now there’s some prophecy about how Orlaith is going to die? But she’s supposed to save the world? From what, exactly? NO IDEA.
- I could not read the fancy fonts used for things like the prophecy. Looks pretty, but if we can’t read it…
I may come back and add thoughts. These books mess with me. Will I read the next one? Probably. And it’ll probably make me mad. I just want something to make sense.
- I feel like I must be dumb because the ratings on these books are so high but I literally can’t understand what’s happening in the story. Sometimes I have to reread a page because I’m like, wait, what?? And not like “wow, amazing” like “I don’t understand what just happened. Did something happen? I can’t tell.” But at the same time, the writing can be kind of pretty at times and the author certainly has a variety of ways to communicate emotions. So the writing is both good and bad. It’s confusing.
- I have zero understanding of the world. I don’t understand the various political groups, where nations are in relation to each other, how large the world is, etc. I don’t understand the gods, the magic, the various beings (what they look like, what they do, why they do it, etc). And this is 3 books in at this point. I still don’t understand anything. I feel like the author does understand her world because characters will have conversations that sounds like they know what they’re talking about, but I feel like a child listening in on the adults talking and I don’t understand what’s happening. Again, either I’m dumb and everyone else gets it, or the author just isn’t explaining this stuff well.
- all the POVs felt unnecessary
- still don’t understand why Kai exists or why he gives a crap about Orlaith because she’s terrible. Speaking of Orlaith…
- Orlaith is one of the worst FMCs I’ve ever read. For three books now she’s had TSTL syndrome (too stupid to live). She’s immature and incapable of learning from her mistakes. One of my fav situations in this book: after having self-reflection, she decides that she really needs to think things through better (you know, after she murders Rhordyn based on info from someone she doesn’t like without talking to R about it), and she decides Tali is someone she should listen to. Tali tells Orlaith to stay in this hotel room and to absolutely not tell anyone R is dead. So what does she do? 2 seconds later she jumps out the window, climbs over the city wall where there’s all these random diseased people and almost gets touched. Then she immediately gets captured by Mr. Bad Guy (but like, why is he so bad? Still don’t get it). Mr. Bad Guy (Cainon) asks her, hey, did you kill R? She immediately confesses. I died. What happened to that introspection???!?
- Orlaith gets another bullet point because I’m not done with her. Her character is all over the place. For the first half of this book she’s blabbing stuff to people she shouldn’t (see point above), then when R returns (because obviously he can’t die) she won’t freaking talk to him. She just keeps avoiding him, even though when she thought he was dead she kept wishing for another chance to talk to him. Like, what?
- I don’t understand how things escalated to the point where Orlaith was on death’s door at the end. It just felt… unnatural? And then she was in Kai’s giant mouth? See I’m just confused. What. Is. Happening?
- now there’s some prophecy about how Orlaith is going to die? But she’s supposed to save the world? From what, exactly? NO IDEA.
- I could not read the fancy fonts used for things like the prophecy. Looks pretty, but if we can’t read it…
I may come back and add thoughts. These books mess with me. Will I read the next one? Probably. And it’ll probably make me mad. I just want something to make sense.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
about 2.5*
I was really excited for this book, but left feeling really disappointed.
I was really excited for this book, but left feeling really disappointed.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Omg this series is so amazing 😍 the only reason this book isn't 5 stars is that sometimes the complex plot can sometimes get a little too complex and following along with each different perspective change can take you out of the story a bit. Other than that I loved all the twists and turns, loved the answers we got to some questions and then more questions left for the next book! Thank God it was HEA-ish and not a cliffhanger so I'm okay enough to wait for the next book to be released
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes