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Wütender Sturm by Victoria Aveyard

38 reviews

caelfind's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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ameydireads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

“But I would never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.”

The war has begun and both sides get ready to fight. But the fight isn’t just between both sides, there are also many internal conflicts. One example is the relationship between Mare and Cal. It has always been complicated and now once again they find themselves on opposite sides. Mare wants to abolish the monarchy altogether and Cal still holds hope for a better world in which he gets to keep his crown. Their mental traumas don’t exactly help either, but this situation does provide interesting characters. We see how Mare is still traumatised by Maven and the silent stone whilst Maven is still haunted by his dead mother and Cal is still haunted by what he thought Maven was and what Maven really could have been if not for Elara. We really have some very interesting characters! I loved Cal and Maven. Cal is such a sweetheart and Maven is a great antagonist. Let’s not forget about Evangeline by the way. She has a great storyline! For so many years her future was fixed and now she sees that she could also make her own choices and live a different life. I didn’t like her at the start of this series, but I’ve grown to love her. She is loyal almost to a fault and is honestly a badass. She comes across as someone who is merciless but that is because of the wall she built around her. I loved that we get to see her POV in this series where we see her inner thoughts and discover a different side of her.

War Storm really is a chunky book but it’s so easy to read that you almost forget its size. Almost! Unfortunately my hand did remind me of this fact, multiple times… Anyway, I enjoyed how this story plays out and now I feel a bit sad that this is the end of this series.

Also, WHY AREN’T MARE AND CAL TOGETHER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK?! They need a happy ending!! This seriously is the only part where I felt betrayed. I mean it makes sense and it’s good that they take a break to recover from everything. It’s a healthy choice, but I need some closure….

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readers_sea's review against another edition

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adventurous 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

3.75

This final book really kept me on my toes! I loved how a lot of it brought the book full circle in the end. There was a lot of action and unpredictability.

I will admit that the ending wasn't my favorite, because it felt like I was rooting for nothing throughout the last books but it is what it is.

Solid conclusion to a solid series.

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stitchof's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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eleanor_forbes_m's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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cuddleemily's review against another edition

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medium-paced

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

5.0

One of my favourite book series - had me laughing and crying through the whole series. Would recommend to anyone who likes fantasy mixed with a form of plutocracy (the rich rule over the poor). Amazing conclusion - would read the full series again I loved it that much!

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psliz's review against another edition

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adventurous 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

4.5

more political than anything but when there's action.. there's action!

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ninascozydayreads's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

There aren’t many books that I remember the reading experience vividly of. How could I, after having read at least 261 books (that I tracked on Goodreads, that is, not counting everything I read before I turned 14 years old and started using it, so in reality it could be over 300 books). Of course, I remember loathing some books. Books I had to read for school, that every time that I picked them up I just sighed, exasperated, and would literally do anything else but read them. Hate is an easier emotion to remember than love. And of course, a big chunk of the books that I have read in my life-time were okay. Not necessarily life changing, but enjoyable enough. I might remember their stories, their characters, but I do not remember how I felt reading them.

Red Queen is a different story. I was 16 or 17 years old, and I had been seeing this book everywhere. Mainly on Youtube and Instagram, that is, because those were the only social media platforms I used at the time (and Tumblr, but that was for very specific fandoms and nothing else). It was a Saturday, I had recently bought the book, and it was one of those rare Saturdays off. Given that I worked retail at that time and played volleyball about weekly, I didn’t often have Saturdays off. But I did that day. So I sat down on this corner of my bed, on top of a bunch of blankets (not under them, it was very much summer), I opened the book…. And when I closed it and looked up, it was dark outside. I had finished it, and to this day I haven’t been able to finish a book that long (300+, proper book size) in one day. not like that. I had absolutely loved and devoured the book.

So it stands to reason that 7 years later, after having read a bunch more books and (hopefully) grown in reading taste, I wouldn’t love it as much.

A little unfortunately, I was right. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed it well enough. I liked it. But it wasn’t that all-encompassing “I need to finish this book right now or else I will die”, like I had 7 years ago. Unlike 7 years ago, I did have all the books by now so I could dive head first into the second book – which I did, cause I have promised myself to actually finish series. Which is why I reread Red Queen and Glass Sword in the first place, because why would I remember books that I read 5+ years ago to the detail that is necessary for reading a sequel?

Little did I know, I was wasting my time with rereading Red Queen and Glass Sword (or maybe just Red Queen, because I couldn’t remember even reading Glass Sword even though Goodreads INSISTS that I had read it at some point before 2022). When I read sequels, I’m used to seeing names and things and events mentioned that I have no recollection of because by then it has been way too long. The Red Queen Series is not that kind of series. It will explain every event, every person and their history in every single sequel.

Wherein lies exactly the problem I had with this book, and why I didn’t like it as much as I did when I was 17, when the writing style didn’t really bother me. Because you see, I really did enjoy the story. The characters were fun, a little hot and hard-headed but I’m fine with that, that doesn’t bother me. There were aspects that I did actually like, storylines that I enjoyed reading about, characters that I may have gotten a little too invested in. though King’s Cage, I’ll admit, was a bit too slow for my liking, overall I did really like the story arc, where it went and where it ended. But the one problem I did have, that annoyed me to a pretty big extent, was the writing.

“show don’t tell” is a very familiar concept, even non-writers have heard it at some point in their life. Show don’t tell is based on trust: do you trust your audience enough to gauge a character’s emotional state if you describe their actions and how they look (rather than outright say “they were sad”)? Aveyard used quite a bit of showing in her book, and that’s absolutely fine, that’s what we’re told to do. But the writing also told, to the point where it was very over descriptive. Whenever we see a character’s state or can guess their line of thoughts (and this was especially apparent in War Storm), there’s always an extra line or sentence that explains those thoughts. At some point, it did start to feel a little repetitive. Another thing that bothered me about the writing, was how passive it was. Things were described as happening to the characters, almost, rather than the characters making them happen which led to me feeling very distanced from the characters, and I couldn’t really connect to them. For a book that’s supposed to be all about magic and action and being immersed in that world, that isn’t the greatest writing technique.

Despite these shortcomings, I really did enjoy the book overall. Enough to make me want to keep reading, because I was genuinely invested and wanted to see how it ended. I enjoyed the characters. A bit flat, but nothing terrible. And I did enjoy the depth behind one specific character, which actually took me by surprise (no spoilers though). Most of all I enjoyed the story itself. I thought the stakes were just high enough, the way it progressed was very good and very natural. However, the writing just wasn’t it for me. I do think I’ll read more of Aveyard’s books in the future, if only because I am well aware these were her first books, and for a debut it’s pretty damn good. And hey, there’s always more to learn.

Also, not cool that disabilities get 'healed'. Just, yeah.

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kingspite618's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.75

TOP 5 books that emotionally scarred me and changed me as a person and ruined my life forever! Loved it, would recommend it to everyone and also I hope no one has to go through the pain of reading this.

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amanda_reads13's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful 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

3.0

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