Reviews

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

simplydemonic35's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

bhalstead04's review against another edition

5.0

Loved it! I'm sad it's over!

archerb's review against another edition

5.0

Overall, I really enjoyed this series. Harkness wove a really strong and chewy universe with so so many tiny foreshadowings, callbacks, symbolisms, that it was all really breathtaking all wound together so perfectly in the end. After book one, there were times where a brand new yet somehow ~extremely vital foundational piece of information~ about the world or characters was thrown in to raise the stakes, which kind of irked me and disrupted the flow for me as a reader, but I'll forgive it.

devlavaca's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

3.25

keen23's review against another edition

I tried for almost two months to get into this book and I just couldn't do it.

jessicajessica101's review against another edition

4.0

Une belle petite brique qui finalement se lit assez vite. j'ai beaucoup aimé ce dernier tome, malgré le fait que je l'ai trouvé assez déséquilibré au niveau du rythme. La majorité du roman manque vraiment d'action, de révélations et quand l'action arrive enfin, elle est trop rapide, trop facile même. J'ai l'impression que l'auteur dans ce tome à davantage voulu insister sur les Bishop Clairmont que sur l'histoire en question. J'ai trouvé ça assez dommage, découvrir encore davantage cette famille, les différents liens qui les unit et l'évolution de leur situation ne m'a pas déplu au contraire, mais ça a été fait en baclant l'action de fin.
cependant cela reste une très bonne lecture et une bonne fin de saga même si j'ai eu en fermant le livre une impression d'inachevé, comme si l'auteur n'avait pas prit le temps de répondre à toutes les interrogations posées. Peut être une suite ou un spin off est envisagé ?

hsecen's review against another edition

3.5

This was a pretty good conclusion to Matthew and Diana’s story! We finally get so many answers to all the questions that have been brought up over the last two books. There’s so much side character developments which was nice to read about. There’s even a more definitive plot line in tracking down a rogue vampire with a pretty sinister agenda. I just wish that it wasn’t such a longgg book. I listened to the audiobook and had to push the reading speed to 2.6 times to get through the slower bits quicker. The book also started out in third person point of views from several of the characters and I wished it had stayed that way throughout instead of a majority of it being told in Diana’s first person point of view. She didn’t have the most exciting first half of the book. But again, a good conclusion to the series and I’m happy with where the characters wound up in the end!

justplainbecca's review against another edition

3.0

2.5? These books are infuriating. The world-building is rich and fascinating, but literally every other character is more interesting than either of the leads. Although the problem with Matthew is less that he’s boring and more that he and the ‘romance’ between him and Diana are hugely problematic.

kspickes's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

vmtonn's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0