Reviews - Namesake | The StoryGraph

4.64k reviews for:

Namesake

Adrienne Young

3.98 AVERAGE

reading_hermit's review against another edition

4.0

Actual Rating: 3.5 stars

carolina1989's review

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense

marlonemelone's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

slmchambers's review against another edition

2.0

My main complaint with this book is that it romanticizes toxic masculinity and unhealthy relationship dynamics. It's also just SUCH bad writing and the characters are so uninteresting, it was truly difficult to read at times and made me cringe. I really wanted to like this series because it's a YA fantasy adventure with a strong female lead (what's not to like?), but honestly I only read the second book because the first one ends with such a ridiculous cliff hanger that I am convinced these two books were a single novel that an editor spilt in two by putting their finger somewhere around the middle of the transcript. My advice is, don't waste your time.

booktrovertreader's review

3.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

She cried or shed a single tear almost in every chapter

justchelsea's review against another edition

3.0

I honestly skimmed most of this. It just wasn’t holding my attention. I love the imagery but the characters felt flat.

hurricaner's review

5.0

I couldn’t put this book down, I read it in one day. I want more! I could not believe that’s where the story ended. I want more adventures from this crew. Great book.