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starlessnights's review
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Kidnapping
Minor: War, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Suicide attempt
jenny_librarian's review
I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
4 days in of 3+ hours reading and I'm still not halfway through despite everything going on. Hell, the "tournament" hasn't even started yet.
It's a good idea, but there's just way too many characters and way too much worldbuilding that doesn't ultimately give us anything. It's all so complicated that you get lost in between what is historical and what's fantasy. And it just keeps building up. Every time you think you'll get an answer, it's just more questions popping up that left me unsatisfied as a reader. I wanted to keep going, but after reading other reviews it doesn't seem to get any better and I have too many books to read to spend another 4-5 days on this one.
This is prime example of why the first book in a series should NOT be 500+ pages...
4 days in of 3+ hours reading and I'm still not halfway through despite everything going on. Hell, the "tournament" hasn't even started yet.
It's a good idea, but there's just way too many characters and way too much worldbuilding that doesn't ultimately give us anything. It's all so complicated that you get lost in between what is historical and what's fantasy. And it just keeps building up. Every time you think you'll get an answer, it's just more questions popping up that left me unsatisfied as a reader. I wanted to keep going, but after reading other reviews it doesn't seem to get any better and I have too many books to read to spend another 4-5 days on this one.
This is prime example of why the first book in a series should NOT be 500+ pages...
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Murder, Sexism, Torture, and Trafficking
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Slavery
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