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3.0 AVERAGE
3.0 AVERAGE
Sat 12/08/23 @10:00-12:58
As always, I love the concept behind the series - time travel to find historical objects is right up my alley. However, the juvenilistic nature of this book was made incredibly clear, and I really did struggle through a lot of the prose, especially the MANY times I came across ‘Don’t be an a**, I like your a**’. Seriously that was written in at least ten times at the beginning! That, the lacklustre editing, and the lack of embellishment of characters, id est of how Ash suddenly becomes buddies with Wilhelm, really lessened the impact this book had on me.
I will say though, it’s a short read and a continuation of the series, which does encroach upon history events to a degree, so therefore isn’t a complete waste of time. For this to have been done better, more research should have been performed, and a bibliography should have been supplied to illustrate he effort gone into this fiction, if it desires to be labelled as historical fiction. It is pretty damning when your book is titled ‘Hammer of the Witch’, when the translation is ‘Hammer of the Witches’!
Kudos though for consolidating the maxim that ‘history is doomed to repeat itself if we do not learn from it’, isn’t the worst central proponent of a series,
As always, I love the concept behind the series - time travel to find historical objects is right up my alley. However, the juvenilistic nature of this book was made incredibly clear, and I really did struggle through a lot of the prose, especially the MANY times I came across ‘Don’t be an a**, I like your a**’. Seriously that was written in at least ten times at the beginning! That, the lacklustre editing, and the lack of embellishment of characters, id est of how Ash suddenly becomes buddies with Wilhelm, really lessened the impact this book had on me.
I will say though, it’s a short read and a continuation of the series, which does encroach upon history events to a degree, so therefore isn’t a complete waste of time. For this to have been done better, more research should have been performed, and a bibliography should have been supplied to illustrate he effort gone into this fiction, if it desires to be labelled as historical fiction. It is pretty damning when your book is titled ‘Hammer of the Witch’, when the translation is ‘Hammer of the Witches’!
Kudos though for consolidating the maxim that ‘history is doomed to repeat itself if we do not learn from it’, isn’t the worst central proponent of a series,