Reviews - The Nightshade God - Ein Hauch von Gift

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The Nightshade God - Ein Hauch von Gift

Hannah Whitten

4.1 AVERAGE

jyb's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

There felt like there was absolutely no stakes, tension, or anything happening for the first 70% of the book (Apollius just waits around and does nothing until, like, the last 30%) besides a video game quest of "collect the Fount pieces" which felt entirely like filler (and was incredibly easy, by the way), which made it insanely boring. While The Foxglove King had a similar amount of action, I loved all the lore we got throughout the book and tension regarding the progressive amount of information the characters were getting. Here: practically no lore to be found (LOL).

Every POV was just them wandering around, thinking about the lore (or Lore, ha ha), and looking for the Fount pieces. I kind of stopped caring about the throuple entirely, since all they were was obsessed with each other and wanted to sleep with each other, so that made me bored with whatever wasn't the plot. I did like the slow character development we were getting for the characters regarding the gods and magic, which is why I kept reading, but it's not worth finishing the book over.

I loved the part where

Lore and Apollius merged

and I actually thought the series was going to end that way, with their situation being fucked up and everything, but once that obviously resolved itself, it was super boring and felt like it just fixed everything way too easily. The ending also felt incredibly anticlimactic, which basically dropped my rating by a full star. So

Gabe and Bastian die but they come back anyway? What's the point? She just sits and waits for 500 years?

It feels like nothing changed except the throuple finally got to be in the same location (oh, yeah, they're separated for most of the book). With the way the series was going, I was expecting more of a bittersweet ending. It's such a deus ex machina ending. And

death being nothing being a lie was such a cop-out.

Laaaaaame. What an uninteresting ending and what a boring book.

I only kept going because I thought the climax was going to be really good—which it was, for about 30 pages—and then everything after that just felt lame. I also liked seeing the characters deal with the magic and the gods in the first half, but that got boring after having the same thing throughout the entire book. I would've given this 3 stars if this had stuck the landing. 2 stars.

whatireadlastnight_'s review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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

reaaleia's review against another edition

4.0

I hate that this took so long to read. Ton of build up. Our party is separated and a lot needs to happen. 60% in and it took off. Our girl Lore went through the wringer but was able to get everything she wanted in the end.

lyssabetty's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

anonymous_butnotquite's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

yiayiakassi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

I write this review still sobbing from the emotional damage wrought by this book. What an incredible ending to a great trilogy!

Fantasy readers get the throuple they both need and deserve.

The mythology, the magic, the characters, I loved it all.

shelves_by_sim's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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: No

Definitely my favorite book in this series! I LOVED the multiple POVs, it brought some new perspective and I also really loved getting to know a certain character I really didn't feel was relevant in any of the other books! This one has Gabe, Alie/Bastian and Lore on 3 separate journey's in order for them to defeat the tyrant god, Apollius, and I enjoyed it so much! Lore on the isles, Gabe in Caldien and Alie right in the midst of court. The plot is high stakes, has battle looming on the horizon as well as that "who can be trusted" factor I love so much too. I did find the ending a little strange but I love that we got to see the Fount grow and change it's perspective in the end - it reminded me of a sort of sentient Cauldron, IYKYK. Overall, a very enjoyable series!