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anzubanzu92's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not sure what to think of this book to be honest. It was good and surprised me in a good way.
BUT!
I feel like the summary mislead me a bit and that annoyed me a lot.
BUT!
I feel like the summary mislead me a bit and that annoyed me a lot.
meowreads_94's review against another edition
1.0
It breaks my heart to give such low ratinv to this book because it has huge potential. An interesting world but without unclear background and non moving plot just ruined it.
This book is about a world where gods are killed by human and half god and god and other orphans are thrown into an orphanage. Reaching to age 18, kids are brought to a blood test if they are human or other things and then the guards who rule the word kill them if they are not human. Gods and half gods have supernatural powers and they kind of formed a rebellion. A group of kids run away from the orphanage and join this rebel but then the story does not go anywhere.
The characters remind me of x men but the development of them is very shallow. It fails to hold my attention at one point because of the lackings of plot movement. But I really want to like this book because the starting was so good. Deep Sigh but in a negative way.
This book is about a world where gods are killed by human and half god and god and other orphans are thrown into an orphanage. Reaching to age 18, kids are brought to a blood test if they are human or other things and then the guards who rule the word kill them if they are not human. Gods and half gods have supernatural powers and they kind of formed a rebellion. A group of kids run away from the orphanage and join this rebel but then the story does not go anywhere.
The characters remind me of x men but the development of them is very shallow. It fails to hold my attention at one point because of the lackings of plot movement. But I really want to like this book because the starting was so good. Deep Sigh but in a negative way.
gothiebiovenom's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
sammys_shelves's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
3.0
I didn't hate this book but I don't know if I liked it either. There were bits I found interesting and it was easy enough to read but there was something about it that just didn't work for me and I'm not sure if it was one big thing that I can't lay my finger on or if it was lots of smaller things.
I found there was a lack of real world building, you got bits and pieces but it didn't really set the story very well for me. I was a bit put out by the three "parts" of the story from three separate characters, maybe if the chapters had switched between characters it might have worked a little better, maybe?
It was brutal at times, the descriptions of deaths were quite horrific sometimes and would probably need to come with a trigger warning as I think some people may not enjoy those parts. To begin with they are quite unexpected. I'm not convinced I would put this in the young adult category for that reason.
Overall though I enjoyed the book enough to finish it and it didn't feel like a slog to do so. The premise was different for me so that made it fun.
I found there was a lack of real world building, you got bits and pieces but it didn't really set the story very well for me. I was a bit put out by the three "parts" of the story from three separate characters, maybe if the chapters had switched between characters it might have worked a little better, maybe?
It was brutal at times, the descriptions of deaths were quite horrific sometimes and would probably need to come with a trigger warning as I think some people may not enjoy those parts. To begin with they are quite unexpected. I'm not convinced I would put this in the young adult category for that reason.
Overall though I enjoyed the book enough to finish it and it didn't feel like a slog to do so. The premise was different for me so that made it fun.
cebege's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
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
thereadingtrashqueen's review against another edition
4.0
I can’t believe I actually finished this- finally!
3,5/5
Still torn and might go down to show as 3 stars, but as terrible as the editing and writing is in places, I love this story so much. It just has a lot of issues readingwise, sadly.
3,5/5
Still torn and might go down to show as 3 stars, but as terrible as the editing and writing is in places, I love this story so much. It just has a lot of issues readingwise, sadly.
simpingshadowsinger's review against another edition
2.0
This book was a struggle to get through. The writing style just really didn't do it for me. The characters don't have their own distinctive voice, but it all just blends together. The perspective also changed two throughout the story, which first of all felt a bit strange as none of the two characters are even mentioned on the blurb so it's weird that they suddenly become some what the main characters. I also felt like the wrong character perspectives were choses. There were other characters, from which it would have been a lot more interesting. Also, some 10 year old is supposed to be a saviour and people (grownups!) are actually listening to her? Yeah no, shut up. It doesn't work like that. Lastly, they travelled quite a bit in the book and I was really missing a map, and I had no clue if the story was taking place in another world, or in a dystopia of our world. This wasn't clearly indicated.
kitsbookishcorner's review against another edition
2.0
This is a story about how humans have condemned all children to live in an orphanage until they are eighteen, they are then tested by the guards of the orphanage to see if their blood is silver, the blood of a God. I f they are a God, they are taken away and if they are human, they are let out into society to live out their lives.
At the start of this book, we follow Hero who is a half-God and Joshua, who is a full God while they are trying to rescue their 'sister' Kestrel, who is human. Kestrel was taken away by the guards as they thought she had the silver blood. I liked Hero's perspective and found this part really tense and the flashbacks interesting and informative in just the right way but then we moved onto two other perspectives throughout the rest of the book and everything seemed to change.
The next part followed Raven, a ten year old girl who lives with about five or six other Gods and one human in a camp. As she is not in the first part of the story, I found she annoyed me slightly and I found I didn't care for her character. It kept getting on my nerves how she was being overprotected one minute and then was supposed to lead them the next, it confused me.
The third perspective is one I won;t name for spoiler reasons but I found this character quite different to how I thought they would be. There was a lot of things happening between the Gods, humans and in the small group that contained Hero and Raven and I found it was all too much for me. I found the perspective of this third person to be a little pointless and I felt that as soon as the next person becomes a main character and we read the scene through them, the actual main characters become secondary people; I felt that it didn't work for me at all.
I liked that each God had their own power or demesne as it was called in the book but I found that was the only interesting thing about it. The book showed a few people's demesne but I feel like they could have shown more of them of used their powers more. I also felt that the book was very scattered for me, I didn't connect with any of the characters and only liked Hero who we didn't really see much of towards the end and I also felt that it wrapped up too quickly and as everyone seemed to be making assumptions about the guards and another character, I didn't know what was going on, for example, one character kept telling everyone they would be safe even though there was no way of knowing they would be and then they were attacked and almost killed multiple times. Overall I am not a fan of this book and found it too confusing unfortunately.
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At the start of this book, we follow Hero who is a half-God and Joshua, who is a full God while they are trying to rescue their 'sister' Kestrel, who is human. Kestrel was taken away by the guards as they thought she had the silver blood. I liked Hero's perspective and found this part really tense and the flashbacks interesting and informative in just the right way but then we moved onto two other perspectives throughout the rest of the book and everything seemed to change.
The next part followed Raven, a ten year old girl who lives with about five or six other Gods and one human in a camp. As she is not in the first part of the story, I found she annoyed me slightly and I found I didn't care for her character. It kept getting on my nerves how she was being overprotected one minute and then was supposed to lead them the next, it confused me.
The third perspective is one I won;t name for spoiler reasons but I found this character quite different to how I thought they would be. There was a lot of things happening between the Gods, humans and in the small group that contained Hero and Raven and I found it was all too much for me. I found the perspective of this third person to be a little pointless and I felt that as soon as the next person becomes a main character and we read the scene through them, the actual main characters become secondary people; I felt that it didn't work for me at all.
I liked that each God had their own power or demesne as it was called in the book but I found that was the only interesting thing about it. The book showed a few people's demesne but I feel like they could have shown more of them of used their powers more. I also felt that the book was very scattered for me, I didn't connect with any of the characters and only liked Hero who we didn't really see much of towards the end and I also felt that it wrapped up too quickly and as everyone seemed to be making assumptions about the guards and another character, I didn't know what was going on, for example, one character kept telling everyone they would be safe even though there was no way of knowing they would be and then they were attacked and almost killed multiple times. Overall I am not a fan of this book and found it too confusing unfortunately.
Have you read this book? If so, what did you think ? Come and talk to me about it in the comments
lornaflowerday's review against another edition
2.0
I feel like I just read 4 different books crammed into 1 with no direction or purpose. The idea was great, but the execution just didn’t work for me.
1.5 out of 5 (rounded up to 2 for Goodreads).
1.5 out of 5 (rounded up to 2 for Goodreads).