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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
reflective
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:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
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:
Yes
This is my second read, to refresh myself before tackling the other books in the series, and I love it even more this time around. The first time I read this I went in with a very low bar: it was on recommendation from an uncle I didn’t know very well, and thus it lived on my shelf for a decade. By the time I actually got around to reading it, it took me a while to get used to the older writing style (having read more modern book at the time). But by the time I got to the end, it floored me with the finale, revintectualizingbthe entire story, and I remember ranting about it to my partner for 3 hours.
This read, I was glued to the page. I hold Sparrowhawk so closely in my heart.
This read, I was glued to the page. I hold Sparrowhawk so closely in my heart.
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was excellent. It's immediately in my top 10 list. I was in love after 1 page. The writing style is absolutely sublime. If this keeps up throughout the series, I will gladly inhale everything this author has ever written. It's hard to put a pin in exactly what I love about the writing....it has a sort of legendary, antique quality, like a story passed down from another age. The descriptions are somehow understated--the writer captures so much of the essence of emotions and scenes without ever belaboring the point with long paragraphs. The emotional and intellectual journey of the main character strikes me as realistic and believable, and Ged is deeply likeable. I love the magic system; it so effortlessly sets up limits on the powers of the characters. The idea that as you travel from areas you are familiar with, your power wanes because you no longer no the name, the essense, of your surroundings.
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
V I B E S. A complicated and kinda unlikable protagonist, delicious small scale saga energy and a world that wraps around you. Gives that OLD MAGIC feeling.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is mostly driven on large descriptions and lengthy prose. Just not for me.
It sounds like a profanity to say something like this about a “classic”; but this novel has been a disappointment to me and I can’t see myself reading the rest of the books in this series. Seeing this book in so many fantasy reading lists, and also because it seemed like a short and light read, I decided to give it a go. I understand that this isn’t a plot driven novel; in fact it focuses on delving on the metaphysical, but that can be the case without it being a bore. Basically nothing happens; you have to content yourself with reflecting about life and existence and little more. It’s a well written book, there is no doubt about that, but at the same time I really disliked the way it was written because it told more than it showed. By the end of the book I felt that I knew nothing about the main character (the only one that seems to exist in the novel since the rest are just unidimensional afterthoughts) because the author described what he did and thought, but she didn’t let us see how he acted and really felt, so I couldn’t help but feeling an extreme detachment from him. It’s hard to put into words actually, but summing it up, the lack of personality of the characters made it hard for me to feel invested in a story that by itself wasn’t that interesting to start with. Also, as much as I admire the immense world building behind this novel, at times I felt annoyed reading the interminable list of names of places and old creatures and wizards and legends that filled extremely descriptive paragraphs that contributed nothing to the plot or the character’s development. As a whole I would say that this book felt to me like a very good first draft, an outline of what is going to happen, of the progression of the story, which still needed some additions to give it more substance. Maybe I’m the faulty one, maybe this novel is great; but what I know is that there are way too many books out there to waste your time on others that doesn’t make you happy or at least entertained.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes