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b3lze's review against another edition
4.0
4⭐⭐⭐⭐
Romántico, con mucha acción y con entretenimiento para rato.
Después de darle la oportunidad que se merecía a De sangre y cenizas tengo muchísimas cosas que decir, tantas que esta vez incluso me tocará dividirlas en las cosas que me gustaron y en las que no.
Empezaré por lo que menos me gustó:
- Por mucho que este libro intente darnos a un protagonista masculino mucho más sano hay cosillas que no pueden dejar de chirriarme en sus actitudes un poco machistas, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta lo bien hecho que está el resto del libro. Que fuerce a Poppy a ir a un sitio u otro, que la acose en ciertos momentos y que no le dé alterativa en general es lo que no, y lo único en realidad, me gusta de él.
Y ahora os diré lo que más me gustó o lo que creo que son sus grandes puntos a favor:
- En el libro ocurren muchísimas cosas, pero cuando digo muchas es que de verdad son una barbaridad, y creo que están todas muy bien llevadas. Ningún tema se extiende más de lo necesario, no se da protagonismo absurdo a x personajes, se cierran temas en su tiempo justo y todo esto hace que devores el libro sin apenas darte cuenta.
- Coges muchísimo cariño a personajes secundarios en un tiempo absurdamente corto.
- La relación entre Poppy y Hawk es electrizante, se toman su tiempo para retarse, conocerse, hacerse amigos, quererse y luego aún así seguir metiéndose el uno con el otro. Sencillamente hay que quererlos.
- Las escenas eróticas son buenísimas en cuanto a que son explicitas en su justa medidas, son una cantidad muy asumible y acertada para la largura del libro y además podríamos decir que son en situaciones bastante diversas, cosa que agrada ya que en todos los demás libros siempre solemos ver lo mismo.
- El worldbuilding me parece un poco escaso pero lo que hay es bueno y de calidad para lo que estamos acostumbrados en este tipo de géneros, se entretienen en dar un lore curioso cuanto menos con el tema de la Doncella y en las situaciones bastante complejas que la rodean. Con esto enlazo un poco con un punto de las cosas que dije que no me habían gustado.
- Y con diferencia lo que más me gusto es que la protagonista fuera una tía de armas tomar de forma literal. Me encanta que pueda dar escenas de acción en los que no solo sea un estorbo, que pueda poner a raya a Hawk y desde luego saber que será alguien independiente que siempre podrá defenderse sola.
Romántico, con mucha acción y con entretenimiento para rato.
Después de darle la oportunidad que se merecía a De sangre y cenizas tengo muchísimas cosas que decir, tantas que esta vez incluso me tocará dividirlas en las cosas que me gustaron y en las que no.
Empezaré por lo que menos me gustó:
- Por mucho que este libro intente darnos a un protagonista masculino mucho más sano hay cosillas que no pueden dejar de chirriarme en sus actitudes un poco machistas, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta lo bien hecho que está el resto del libro. Que fuerce a Poppy a ir a un sitio u otro, que la acose en ciertos momentos y que no le dé alterativa en general es lo que no, y lo único en realidad, me gusta de él.
Spoiler
- Creo que el momento de "en realidad todo estáis viviendo engañados y en realidad los malos somos los buenos" es algo que esta absurdamente trillado. También por esto acaban resolviendo muchas incógnitas a la vez que a mí me habría gustado más que se aguantaran en el tiempo y que a la vez se desarrollaran más (aunque a lo mejor esto ya se hace en las siguientes partes).Y ahora os diré lo que más me gustó o lo que creo que son sus grandes puntos a favor:
- En el libro ocurren muchísimas cosas, pero cuando digo muchas es que de verdad son una barbaridad, y creo que están todas muy bien llevadas. Ningún tema se extiende más de lo necesario, no se da protagonismo absurdo a x personajes, se cierran temas en su tiempo justo y todo esto hace que devores el libro sin apenas darte cuenta.
- Coges muchísimo cariño a personajes secundarios en un tiempo absurdamente corto.
- La relación entre Poppy y Hawk es electrizante, se toman su tiempo para retarse, conocerse, hacerse amigos, quererse y luego aún así seguir metiéndose el uno con el otro. Sencillamente hay que quererlos.
- Las escenas eróticas son buenísimas en cuanto a que son explicitas en su justa medidas, son una cantidad muy asumible y acertada para la largura del libro y además podríamos decir que son en situaciones bastante diversas, cosa que agrada ya que en todos los demás libros siempre solemos ver lo mismo.
- El worldbuilding me parece un poco escaso pero lo que hay es bueno y de calidad para lo que estamos acostumbrados en este tipo de géneros, se entretienen en dar un lore curioso cuanto menos con el tema de la Doncella y en las situaciones bastante complejas que la rodean. Con esto enlazo un poco con un punto de las cosas que dije que no me habían gustado.
- Y con diferencia lo que más me gusto es que la protagonista fuera una tía de armas tomar de forma literal. Me encanta que pueda dar escenas de acción en los que no solo sea un estorbo, que pueda poner a raya a Hawk y desde luego saber que será alguien independiente que siempre podrá defenderse sola.
abbeysykes's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
emmiremmidemmi's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
kbmschuler's review against another edition
3.0
Had this book on my shelf for a while and have finally taken it upon myself to read it now that I have a shit ton of time. To put it simply I wasn’t underwhelmed or overwhelmed by this story. Just more whelmed to put it simply.
First half of the book is like thread bare things that happen that somewhat contrive to the overall plot. But along with that is a lot of stuff that never feels meaningful or relevant to the plot. There is like a chapter and halfish of Poppy and Viktor going to kill a few people who have been cursed. I get it is supposed to show her rebellious side against her being a maiden. But upon reaching the end of book feels like a pointless waste of time. What happened in that amount of time could be easily explained away in a few sentences. Also with that there is a lot of time spent on Poppy’s day to day. And I’ll be honest when I say that I could relate to her boredom with her life because in between her girlbossing in secret, all it seems she ever does is sit in her room or go around the castle with a veil. It’s strange because stuff is happening in the book, a girl dies, there’s looming threats, civil unrest, a mildly budding romance and yet it feels like there is nothing going on.
The only saving grace is when a little over halfway through the plot some semblance of a plot kicks in with the attack at the rite and a few people dying and then that pushing out protagonists into the last third of the book. It’s an improvement from the first half of the book when it feels like things are scarily happening that are relevant, but then you almsot get whiplash from how fast things start moving towards the end. It at least it was interesting and it provides for more Intrigue then the first half did.
Now on to characters.
The majority of characters written like caricatures of real people. Poppy is the seemingly demure and helpless woman that is actually super badass and can beat any guy in a fight. Other than that and her constantly going on about wanting to trace a choice and to have some agency in her life, there’s not much to her. Dead parents, a brother that I forgot exsisted halfway through, and her pseudo chosen family.
Hawks is fine. He’s the usually flirt male protagonist that just drives the female protagonist insane. Thread bare motivations until the very end of the book. That’s when he get a bit more Interesting. Can commend the writing of that flirty banter being turned into something a bit more sinister (for like less than a chapter). Also hate how he is just a mouth piece for Poppy to realize that her life is shitty. Any moron could spell that out for her, she didn’t need a hot one to do it.
Viktor is the stand in father figure that you know is going to die at some point, and shocker he did die in this book. What tipped me off what the cliche “I think of you as my own” interaction he had with Poppy. Didn’t make a big enough impression on me to make me sad when he died, so I guess there’s that.
Tawny is fine. Typical best friend character that goes along with Poppy’s schemes. Yet another và after that left no slashing impression on me. Which is weird because I actually liked her somewhat, but as soon as she was gone from the story she was gone from my mind.
Duke Teerman, Lord Mazeen, Prietess bitch. All the same character but in different fonts in hopes that no one will notice. Typical asshole characters that don’t really have rhyme or reason for being assholes other than the fact that there needed to be villains in the story. And there needed to be a big enough vợ starts between their actions and Hawks to justify why “yeah he’s a bad guy but at least he’s not like those bad guys.” They should all have matching shirts that says “evil character” written on it.
But seriously, these characters are paper thin. The depth that could be there is either beaten to death or left behind in favour of the easy characterization. It feels like at every turn when a character is introudiced, you can tell what their motivations are going to be the moment they’re introduced. The nuisance that could be here isn’t, the character growth for any of these character could be there but it isn’t. The only people that have something remotely close to a character arc are Poppy and relaxing that she doesn’t want to be the maiden, even though that was shit that was established in literally the first fucking chapters. And Viktor, just because he needed the dead father trope thing.
Random gripes:
Some of the dialogue just sucks. I know writing dialogue is a bed thing but it feels like these character are just saying what someone would think they would say. A lot of conversations have this strange flow that had me rereading things over and over until it clicked.
Also, I don’t like how this book started. I love a meet cute and everything but this was fucking painful. Between Poppy going on dumping lore down your throat every other sentence, she’s going on about her life and role on the world and how she doesn’t like it. And then meetings with Hawke for the first time and going on about how hot he is. But as a starting point for your story it doesn’t intrigue me, Hawke is fine but we have no context for why we should care about him and their meeting other than they are the predetermined pairing for the book. It doesn’t help that it doesn’t feel like it’s doing nothing for the plot and I can read these two horny fuckers banter back and forth so often before i want to rip my eye balls out. But the starting point feels wrong because it never feels like it’s where a story should start. While thinking back on it I can’t help but think why did it start here? Because the first few chapters could be interchanged with any chapters int be first few chapters and I don’t think it would change anything.
Another thing, this kingdom has terrible fucking guards. How is the maiden, the supposedly most important mortal in the kingdom just so easily sneaking out into the city? Like Jesus, times are tough and all but you still have to hire decent people.
Also I’m hoping the religious lesson will pay off. I know all these gods and yet they played no real point at the end of the day.
Final thoughts: flawed and ok. It’s a slob to get through the first half of the book and the ending is what saved my liking for thei book. But as a whole it’s boring beginning and can understand the lack of appeal.
Read of you want, has a few interesting takes on vamoires and and interesting world it’s built. But it has its moments of greatest in it all that’s what saved its score.
First half of the book is like thread bare things that happen that somewhat contrive to the overall plot. But along with that is a lot of stuff that never feels meaningful or relevant to the plot. There is like a chapter and halfish of Poppy and Viktor going to kill a few people who have been cursed. I get it is supposed to show her rebellious side against her being a maiden. But upon reaching the end of book feels like a pointless waste of time. What happened in that amount of time could be easily explained away in a few sentences. Also with that there is a lot of time spent on Poppy’s day to day. And I’ll be honest when I say that I could relate to her boredom with her life because in between her girlbossing in secret, all it seems she ever does is sit in her room or go around the castle with a veil. It’s strange because stuff is happening in the book, a girl dies, there’s looming threats, civil unrest, a mildly budding romance and yet it feels like there is nothing going on.
The only saving grace is when a little over halfway through the plot some semblance of a plot kicks in with the attack at the rite and a few people dying and then that pushing out protagonists into the last third of the book. It’s an improvement from the first half of the book when it feels like things are scarily happening that are relevant, but then you almsot get whiplash from how fast things start moving towards the end. It at least it was interesting and it provides for more Intrigue then the first half did.
Now on to characters.
The majority of characters written like caricatures of real people. Poppy is the seemingly demure and helpless woman that is actually super badass and can beat any guy in a fight. Other than that and her constantly going on about wanting to trace a choice and to have some agency in her life, there’s not much to her. Dead parents, a brother that I forgot exsisted halfway through, and her pseudo chosen family.
Hawks is fine. He’s the usually flirt male protagonist that just drives the female protagonist insane. Thread bare motivations until the very end of the book. That’s when he get a bit more Interesting. Can commend the writing of that flirty banter being turned into something a bit more sinister (for like less than a chapter). Also hate how he is just a mouth piece for Poppy to realize that her life is shitty. Any moron could spell that out for her, she didn’t need a hot one to do it.
Viktor is the stand in father figure that you know is going to die at some point, and shocker he did die in this book. What tipped me off what the cliche “I think of you as my own” interaction he had with Poppy. Didn’t make a big enough impression on me to make me sad when he died, so I guess there’s that.
Tawny is fine. Typical best friend character that goes along with Poppy’s schemes. Yet another và after that left no slashing impression on me. Which is weird because I actually liked her somewhat, but as soon as she was gone from the story she was gone from my mind.
Duke Teerman, Lord Mazeen, Prietess bitch. All the same character but in different fonts in hopes that no one will notice. Typical asshole characters that don’t really have rhyme or reason for being assholes other than the fact that there needed to be villains in the story. And there needed to be a big enough vợ starts between their actions and Hawks to justify why “yeah he’s a bad guy but at least he’s not like those bad guys.” They should all have matching shirts that says “evil character” written on it.
But seriously, these characters are paper thin. The depth that could be there is either beaten to death or left behind in favour of the easy characterization. It feels like at every turn when a character is introudiced, you can tell what their motivations are going to be the moment they’re introduced. The nuisance that could be here isn’t, the character growth for any of these character could be there but it isn’t. The only people that have something remotely close to a character arc are Poppy and relaxing that she doesn’t want to be the maiden, even though that was shit that was established in literally the first fucking chapters. And Viktor, just because he needed the dead father trope thing.
Random gripes:
Some of the dialogue just sucks. I know writing dialogue is a bed thing but it feels like these character are just saying what someone would think they would say. A lot of conversations have this strange flow that had me rereading things over and over until it clicked.
Also, I don’t like how this book started. I love a meet cute and everything but this was fucking painful. Between Poppy going on dumping lore down your throat every other sentence, she’s going on about her life and role on the world and how she doesn’t like it. And then meetings with Hawke for the first time and going on about how hot he is. But as a starting point for your story it doesn’t intrigue me, Hawke is fine but we have no context for why we should care about him and their meeting other than they are the predetermined pairing for the book. It doesn’t help that it doesn’t feel like it’s doing nothing for the plot and I can read these two horny fuckers banter back and forth so often before i want to rip my eye balls out. But the starting point feels wrong because it never feels like it’s where a story should start. While thinking back on it I can’t help but think why did it start here? Because the first few chapters could be interchanged with any chapters int be first few chapters and I don’t think it would change anything.
Another thing, this kingdom has terrible fucking guards. How is the maiden, the supposedly most important mortal in the kingdom just so easily sneaking out into the city? Like Jesus, times are tough and all but you still have to hire decent people.
Also I’m hoping the religious lesson will pay off. I know all these gods and yet they played no real point at the end of the day.
Final thoughts: flawed and ok. It’s a slob to get through the first half of the book and the ending is what saved my liking for thei book. But as a whole it’s boring beginning and can understand the lack of appeal.
Read of you want, has a few interesting takes on vamoires and and interesting world it’s built. But it has its moments of greatest in it all that’s what saved its score.
minglesby's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
bruh…why is this 600 pages
csbrown's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
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
3.5
louesums's review against another edition
4.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/4.5
Wow! Wow! Wow! So good really enjoyed the pacing of this book. Often I find the first book of a series hard to get into because there is so much of the world that has to be established but this one took off running. And HAWKE! Omgee Hawke! Can’t wait to read the next one
Wow! Wow! Wow! So good really enjoyed the pacing of this book. Often I find the first book of a series hard to get into because there is so much of the world that has to be established but this one took off running. And HAWKE! Omgee Hawke! Can’t wait to read the next one
mayllomi's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
I love a violent fmc lol this was a fun read though some things were a bit predictable, I also liked the parts about grief, pain and empathy
sammiep16's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
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? It's complicated
5.0
magiczna_patrycja's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Boże. To była absolutnie koszmarna przygoda.
Fabuła nie jest w ogóle porywająca, mam wrażenie że przez większość książki nic się nie dzieje a my jako czytelnicy dostajemy zupełnie nieistotne szczegóły z życia głównej bohaterki. Poppy jest okropnie głupia i nie potrafi łączyć podstawowych faktów, będąc równocześnie Terminatorem, który doskonale walczy KAŻDĄ bronią która napotka. Hawke jest przemocowym manipulantem, który nie przekonuje mnie w byciu 'love interest'. Nie wierzę w ich relacje i w to że jest taka super specjalna, a oni się tak doskonale rozumieją. Nie.
Świat przestawiony jest zagmanwany w chuj, ja do teraz nie rozumiem do końca o co chodzi - dlaczego ascedenci zostawiają sysunów? Nie czaje do czego mieliby się przydać po wypiciu ich krwi???
Plus, dlaczego niby Poppy była im tak potrzebna.
Na czym polega ta ascedencja.
Po chuj im tyle dzieci jako nowych ascedentow - to jest zdecydowanie marnowanie potencjalnego pożywienia.
Czym są descedenci????
Sam język jest płytki, mało wyszukany. W tłumaczeniu są błędy. Flow jest mało porywające.
Chciałabym znaleźć jakieś krótkie wyjaśnienie o co chodzi z tym lore, bo nie zamierzam kontynuować.
Fabuła nie jest w ogóle porywająca, mam wrażenie że przez większość książki nic się nie dzieje a my jako czytelnicy dostajemy zupełnie nieistotne szczegóły z życia głównej bohaterki. Poppy jest okropnie głupia i nie potrafi łączyć podstawowych faktów, będąc równocześnie Terminatorem, który doskonale walczy KAŻDĄ bronią która napotka. Hawke jest przemocowym manipulantem, który nie przekonuje mnie w byciu 'love interest'. Nie wierzę w ich relacje i w to że jest taka super specjalna, a oni się tak doskonale rozumieją. Nie.
Świat przestawiony jest zagmanwany w chuj, ja do teraz nie rozumiem do końca o co chodzi - dlaczego ascedenci zostawiają sysunów? Nie czaje do czego mieliby się przydać po wypiciu ich krwi???
Plus, dlaczego niby Poppy była im tak potrzebna.
Na czym polega ta ascedencja.
Po chuj im tyle dzieci jako nowych ascedentow - to jest zdecydowanie marnowanie potencjalnego pożywienia.
Czym są descedenci????
Sam język jest płytki, mało wyszukany. W tłumaczeniu są błędy. Flow jest mało porywające.
Chciałabym znaleźć jakieś krótkie wyjaśnienie o co chodzi z tym lore, bo nie zamierzam kontynuować.