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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
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
This book is one of the hardest that I have ever rated. I love this cast of characters so much and this beautiful finale didn't disappoint in it's culmination of action, romance, and wrapping up all the loose ends of this series. There was so much plot and action packed into this book and the character interactions are so well developed and nuanced. My only complaint is that while this is a wonderful cast of characters, it is also a very large cast of characters, which makes it difficult for Meyer to follow all of them at once. They have such a wonderful group dynamic when they're all together, but for the majority of the book, they are split up. I wish that there was more time for them to be together and get to interact with one another. There was also difficult to manage an equal amount of time for each of the characters. I loved all of them but I feel like Jacin and Winter didn't get as much time as they deserved. So I had to take half a star for that, but I still loved this book immensely and it is one of my favourites.
4.5/5
I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS DON'T TOUCH ME RIGHT NOW.
I really really loved this book. The character interactions were ON POINT as always. I love this cast of characters so so much and I care SO MUCH ABOUT THEM.
World building - YAS. I loved reading about Luna and picturing everything, especially the throne room
I can't really totally give it a 5 stars because it just felt so long and like so many things happened at the beginning that there wasn't really a climax - that being said, it was really exciting basically all the time. SO MANY THINGS HAPPENED SO MANY.
I loved the ending and I could totally do with more books just because I want MORE but it was a very satisfying ending.
STILL SO MANY FEELINGS.
I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS DON'T TOUCH ME RIGHT NOW.
I really really loved this book. The character interactions were ON POINT as always. I love this cast of characters so so much and I care SO MUCH ABOUT THEM.
World building - YAS. I loved reading about Luna and picturing everything, especially the throne room
I can't really totally give it a 5 stars because it just felt so long and like so many things happened at the beginning that there wasn't really a climax - that being said, it was really exciting basically all the time. SO MANY THINGS HAPPENED SO MANY.
I loved the ending and I could totally do with more books just because I want MORE but it was a very satisfying ending.
STILL SO MANY FEELINGS.
- Oct. 2020 review -
I fell in love with this series the first time I read it through. I was trying to get out of a massive COVID-and-grad-school-induced reading slump and I thought, what better way than rereading my old favorites? This series, however, was a bit of a disappointment. I still enjoyed it and it helped to get me back in the flow, but there were just too many issues that were suddenly staring me in the face. I'm not saying any of these are inherently bad, but I've outgrown them and the same things that made me love the books initially now turned me away. For a start, a pet peeve of mine-the books get increasingly longer as the series progresses. This is, in my opinion, evidence of poor planning, resulting in the author needing to fit a lot more in the last couple books in order to tie up the story. What I also found disappointing in Winter in particular is that Meyer created a really compelling plot and set of characters, but the last books has so many POV's that the reader is tossed this way and that in a very disorienting way, and no single plot point or character gets fleshed out as much as it should. Overall, while I will fully admit to being a fervent OTPer in my high school read of these books, it was slightly annoying that the objectively fascinating plot was often sidelined by the myriad of relationships. This was especially evident in the last book, as all of the couples that had formed in the previous books were crammed together and made the plot itself take a backseat.
- Nov. 2015 review -
I love this series so much. It was a wonderful end to an incredible series.
I fell in love with this series the first time I read it through. I was trying to get out of a massive COVID-and-grad-school-induced reading slump and I thought, what better way than rereading my old favorites? This series, however, was a bit of a disappointment. I still enjoyed it and it helped to get me back in the flow, but there were just too many issues that were suddenly staring me in the face. I'm not saying any of these are inherently bad, but I've outgrown them and the same things that made me love the books initially now turned me away. For a start, a pet peeve of mine-the books get increasingly longer as the series progresses. This is, in my opinion, evidence of poor planning, resulting in the author needing to fit a lot more in the last couple books in order to tie up the story. What I also found disappointing in Winter in particular is that Meyer created a really compelling plot and set of characters, but the last books has so many POV's that the reader is tossed this way and that in a very disorienting way, and no single plot point or character gets fleshed out as much as it should. Overall, while I will fully admit to being a fervent OTPer in my high school read of these books, it was slightly annoying that the objectively fascinating plot was often sidelined by the myriad of relationships. This was especially evident in the last book, as all of the couples that had formed in the previous books were crammed together and made the plot itself take a backseat.
- Nov. 2015 review -
I love this series so much. It was a wonderful end to an incredible series.
Omg. I sobbed my way through the last few chapters of this book.
Finally. I'd say it's a 4.5 only because the length was killing me, and the tension. What a roller coaster with a satisfying wrap up.
After some thought, I gave this title another star. While I didn't love the book itself, I do think it was a good conclusion to a series that added characters with each book. There was action, there was success in their goals, and each couple got some highlighted time of their own. What dragged it down for me was every time the group went to do something, someone was captured and/or separated, and then the next few chapters were about someone else stewing about how to retrieve them. If this had happened once or maybe twice, I wouldn't have notice it as much. It just went on and on. I'm not sure why the author dragged everything out like that, it was a huge book. If the group had managed to stay together more, the book would have been much shorter, and more exciting.
Spoiler
But seriously...wolf waiting for scarlet, they meet up then Wolf is captured. Thorne brooding about Cress sacrificing for the group, then later in the book Cress worried about Thorne when he is captured. Jacin sending Winter off, then her being sick and needing rescuing.
4.5 Stars
I must commend the narrator for a job well done. She truly brought the story to life and I was captivated from start to finish. Although there were a few predictable parts, it still managed to keep me on the edge of my seat.
Winter reminds me so much of Luna Lovegood and I'm here for it!
I must commend the narrator for a job well done. She truly brought the story to life and I was captivated from start to finish. Although there were a few predictable parts, it still managed to keep me on the edge of my seat.
Winter reminds me so much of Luna Lovegood and I'm here for it!
Spoiler
I wasn't too happy about the ending. I think if a main character had died, it would have had a bigger impact. I understand why none of the main characters died since this was based on fairy tales. Fairy tales always have happy endings... but come on. Let it be a darker fairy tale and not too much of a cliché.
So... I haven't read enough of this book to give it a rating, but I'm writing it off under abandoned (instead of to-read) because I failed to give a shit about what was happening to anyone. When the last character who I was actually interested in knowing more about (Jacin) started acting dumb-because-love, I just sighed and gave up.
The Lunar Chronicles has a reasonably interesting plot, but the prose is mediocre and the characters are inconsistent.
The Lunar Chronicles has a reasonably interesting plot, but the prose is mediocre and the characters are inconsistent.