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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
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
I thought this was going to be a fun adventure at sea and didn't expect it to turn into a fight for survival followed by ~trauma but I really enjoyed it! The fox babies are darling angels, would die for Hope
Seasparrow shifts into a slower, more introspective gear, following Hava through long stretches of shipboard life and the aftermath of a wreck. While it wasn’t a bad read, it often felt more like an extended side story than an essential installment in the series. There were still moments I enjoyed — especially her quiet observations and an unexpected animal companion — but overall it didn’t quite recapture the energy of earlier books, and I was ready for the series to wrap by the end.
Compared to Cashore's other Graceling realm books, I just couldn't get into the voice of this one. This was written from the first-person perspective of Hava, and if I'm not mistaken this is the first book to do so (the other books were written in third-person perspective). While I'm not against books written in first-person POV, I just didn't enjoy Hava's voice. I liked her as a character in the previous books, but I found myself putting this book down more often than not in it's early chapters, before I decided to wholly give up. Perhaps I'll get back to it at a later date, but for now it's a no from me.
okay coming of age after an arctic shipwreck, i see you. this would have HIT if i read it as a teenager around the time of fire. like damn do those two novels poke at trying to figure yourself out while being involved in something much bigger than you alone
also. minor spoiler:i was CONVINCED the polar bears were some sort of monsters/graced/foxlike situation
also. minor spoiler:
adventurous
funny
mysterious
slow-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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
Another Graceling book, another good cryfest .
Picking up after the end of Winterkeep, Hava narrates the journey back to Monsea. She is fascinated by the boat and the sailors. She deals with traumas from the last book as well as the traumas from her childhood. She also explores her Grace. If she can turn into anything and hide, what does it mean when she chooses to be seen? Or wants to change her self?
There are also many cute blue foxes.
Don’t let the page count intimidate you. It is written in many many chapters, most of them short.
Picking up after the end of Winterkeep, Hava narrates the journey back to Monsea. She is fascinated by the boat and the sailors. She deals with traumas from the last book as well as the traumas from her childhood. She also explores her Grace. If she can turn into anything and hide, what does it mean when she chooses to be seen? Or wants to change her self?
There are also many cute blue foxes.
Don’t let the page count intimidate you. It is written in many many chapters, most of them short.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This one was definitely better than Winterkeep. It reminded me a lot of Bitterblue. Very introspective. Very much about a character working through their childhood trauma while surrounded by patient, kind, loving people.
The pacing was a bit odd, and a large part of the first section was set on a ship which seemed like Kristin Cashore just wanted to tell us all about the ship facts she knows. I am okay with that, but if I think too hard about the plot or the necessity of the ship/etc the story kind of falls apart. Most of the plot happens in the last section of the book (it's divided into three parts, with the first one longest, second long, and third short), and again, the book works only if you forget about plot/story-telling and realize that this is more of a character study than anything else.
I did love the foxes very much. I thought that the romance could have been better. I didn't hate it but I was hoping for something else.
I'm very curious if this series continues or not. This book felt a lot like Bitterblue 2.0 which I don't mind at all because that's my favorite book of the series, but I'm not sure where the series goes from here.
The pacing was a bit odd, and a large part of the first section was set on a ship which seemed like Kristin Cashore just wanted to tell us all about the ship facts she knows. I am okay with that, but if I think too hard about the plot or the necessity of the ship/etc the story kind of falls apart. Most of the plot happens in the last section of the book (it's divided into three parts, with the first one longest, second long, and third short), and again, the book works only if you forget about plot/story-telling and realize that this is more of a character study than anything else.
I did love the foxes very much. I thought that the romance could have been better. I didn't hate it but I was hoping for something else.
I'm very curious if this series continues or not. This book felt a lot like Bitterblue 2.0 which I don't mind at all because that's my favorite book of the series, but I'm not sure where the series goes from here.
Spoiler
Oh also it killed me that Bitterblue legalizes same-sex marriage in this one. Kristin please just make a main character not-straight, come on now.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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