Reviews - The Book That Wouldn't Burn

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The Book That Wouldn't Burn

Mark Lawrence

4.01 AVERAGE

booksandstarss's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookishbunnyb's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious 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: No

swcheng15's review against another edition

2.0

Omg...not my thing, at least not until the last 100 pages or so. And it's a trilogy?? It was sooo slow (for me) and convoluted (then again, stories about time travel always are). I need a cliffsnotes version of the next 2 books.

edithwannell's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious reflective tense 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: Complicated

kayahcherie's review against another edition

1.0

Spoiler

All you need to know about this book is that some magical feature of time travel allows the 20-year-old male main character to become romantically involved with the 10-year-old female main character the same day he meets her because the time travel portals somehow age her 10 years in a few hours while he doesn’t age a day! Convenient! ✨ Also the same male main character had sex with someone several times before starting to refer to her as his sister, and his romantic interest turns out to be the woman who raised him?????? What in the actual fuck. I was so excited for some book-about-books magical library stuff and this is not that. I almost DNF-ed so many times, including when the raven turned out to be named edgarallen which literally caused me to laugh aloud, but I got competitive about it and now I just wish I had my time back. More like the book that wouldn’t END

piperpixel's review against another edition

4.25

incredibly interesting world and magic system. so so confusing sometimes tho.

artytwin's review against another edition

5.0

This is the best book I've read in a long time.

It's like if The Poppy War and The Shadow of the Wind had a baby, it would be this. It's so wondefully written, and the themes are a metaphor for our reality in ways I can't describe without spoiling.