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Cartea vietii

Deborah Harkness

4.07 AVERAGE


I had low expectations for the third book in this series, as the first two were long winded and boring.  This book is far more interesting, more action, less chitter chatter.  If you can make it through the first 2 books, book 3 is the reward for all that boring reading.
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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The ending was super abrupt
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I like the conclusion of this original trilogy. I think it hepled a lot that the MMC was less on the page. I really enjoyed the side characters!
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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

Me ha gustado mucho la trilogía pero ha sido demasiado lenta para mi gusto lo que ha hecho que haya tardado un montón en leerme todo la historia.
Deja varias tramas abiertas para los siguientes libros, pero la que más me ha molestado es la de Gallowglass, uno de mis personajes favoritos sin duda.

I haven’t read reviews so this may be redundant— liked this book and the character development. Sometimes it was hard to follow names, but with all of the characters in this story, it’s amazing how the author brings them to life that I could recall ~10 immediately.

On the other hand, this book’s plot centers, in part, on the bad guy and his raping of witches. The rape was glossed over by the characters and referenced in a joking manner at times—despite the graphic truly awful nature of it, and the victims were referred to repeatedly as “Benjamin’s witch.” It was gross and I was hoping it’d be corrected later in the writing but it wasn’t. There was just a general avoidance to extend meaningful empathy towards the women raped and videoed — and then the next scene would be something random like the house playing funny music while MCs joke around. It was weird and I made me skeptical of the writing as a whole.

I ALMOST CRIED.
WELL DONE HARKNESS.

LOVE! I want all my books to feature historians and art historians.
adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious 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: Complicated
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