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Cartea vietii

Deborah Harkness

4.07 AVERAGE

lidiaaa222's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense 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: Complicated

cate07luna's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious tense slow-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

kellynmadden's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional 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: Yes

catherinenereader's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

abelk's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional informative mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Definitely the weakest book of the trilogy. Sure, it was nice to get some actual answers and resolution, but other than that this book didn’t give us much!

The plot for the first half of the book was bouncing between houses and talking about how to find the book. Then they have to divide and conquer, and the next quarter of the book is mostly whining about being apart. The only real plot happens right at the end!

I also found the characters so much more frustrating in this book. Diana was fine, I guess, though boring. But I was just so over it with Matthew and how crappy he is! When everyone is afraid that if they say the wrong thing or look at his wife too long he might kill them, I’m pretty sure that’s not a healthy relationship, vampires or no.

There’s another issue I have with the series as a whole, they have this whole society of vampires who have impossible amounts of money and property. And yet, some are just servants for eternity and apparently happy with that?? Like how many centuries do you have to cook for people or chauffeur them around before you get to have your own house? It just seems so unfair and somehow no one even mentions it?? Mostly I’m thinking of Marte, she deserves better!