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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
İlk kitaptan daha doyurucu buldum. Vahşet daha bir baskındı, ondan sanırım. İlk kitapta vahşet anlatıldı ama pek gösterilmedi. Bu kitaptaysa aradığımı o yönden buldum. Sıkıcı yerleri de yok değil tabii ama insana kendisini okutturuyor ve sonraki kitabı merak ettiriyor.
I think this world is imaginative, and the pace is good and the characters intriguing. Something is lacking though. Clarity of thought? Are the characters immature or just so OTHER that they don't grasp basic concepts or have to reiterate things all.the.time. That goes for the human POVs as well. Their thoughts are sporadic. Idk. It was as enjoyable as the first. That is all.
A nice follow-on to the first. Meg, Simon and the cast try to find and free the other prophets, as the team finds out bad guys are using the prophets in many ways to attack Others. There are some fun conversations and scenes as species try to understand each other.
The basic world, of other species who view humans as prey animals and, somehow, it's only bad humans who have a major problem with that, is a serious problem that will drag the ratings down for the series. However, if you can put up with the author's annoying world, they're nice, fluff, reads.
The basic world, of other species who view humans as prey animals and, somehow, it's only bad humans who have a major problem with that, is a serious problem that will drag the ratings down for the series. However, if you can put up with the author's annoying world, they're nice, fluff, reads.
I like the premise of the book and the storyline development. However, the writing style was so simplistic that it detracted from my enjoyment of the book.
I enjoyed it, 3.5. I thought the first book was better. This one felt too similar to the first novel without the charm, and not enough new things happening to give it a 4. But I'm still interested enough to keep reading!
Guh. Why?! Why did I think this book would be any better than the first book in the series? Because it's not. It's just as bad. The writing is stilted, Meg is still a MarySue and the other characters are 1-dimensional (they allllll have 'gard' in their surnames because of course the terra indigene wouldn't be smart enough to actually have their own names). The villains are only slightly less comic-booky than they were in the first book.
Look, Anne Bishop isn't a great writer, but she's a FUN writer. She's got a killer imagination for dark fantasy. But Maudealmighty, the Others feels phoned in. Definitely NOT going to bother with any future installments.
Look, Anne Bishop isn't a great writer, but she's a FUN writer. She's got a killer imagination for dark fantasy. But Maudealmighty, the Others feels phoned in. Definitely NOT going to bother with any future installments.
Another great one
Book 2 was just as good as book 1. I can’t wait to read about them more, thank you!!! If you are looking for a great paranormal series, this is in the top 5 for sure.
Book 2 was just as good as book 1. I can’t wait to read about them more, thank you!!! If you are looking for a great paranormal series, this is in the top 5 for sure.
While I loved the first book, something changed for me in this book. Maybe it's because the last book focused more on Meg and the "bad people" who she'd been dealing with, while the human/Other conflict kept the background busy and interesting. In this book the conflict was more at the forefront, or I just noticed it more and I wasn't fond of it.
Here is where my problem lies:
The bad guys as they are presented to us are the humans. They are invaders from a foreign continent. Of course, even on their home continent they are trapped on managed areas of land and live at the behest of the Others, who aren't exactly benevolent dictators. So, yes, they form groups like Humans First and Last, because they are persecuted and threatened for breaking arbitrary rules that are defined by an outside culture/race/species. So, bad guys? Of course, within that core are bad people who are using and abusing the prophets, but your average individual doesn't even know who they are, and the Others don't even know the prophets are being used like this so they don't even have that as an excuse for their actions. Then, you have the good guy Others who at a slight to one of their kind will wipe out all the humans with impudence. In fact, they control every resource the humans have access to and invest only in what they like. Of course the humans here are admittedly invaders to a non-native continent, but the ones back home "where they belong" are getting treated just as badly. So, the books are written in such a way that everyone works with the Others to keep the killing from happening primarily by getting done whatever the Others like, and the Others pretty much put up with them because one little individual is "special" to them and the rest can die in fire and flood and they really don't care, because they are lesser beings to be put up with.
There are literally no good guys here, just a lot of innocent humans who are oppressed and angry, some bad humans who are fighting back, and abusive to humans and Others alike, and the Others, who almost as a whole put up with us like livestock they can euthanize whenever they would like, except for a few pets they really enjoy and find amusing. When I could ignore this and root for Meg, one of the only true innocents and the Others who are protecting her it was great, but the constant reminder that the Others would wipe out even innocents to protect the few innocents they like they are less nature spirits and more human than is comfortable, even as the author tries to convince you this is "nature" and not "human nature". Hardly. Nature kills simply because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Elementals kill everyone because the only human they like was injured by a few bad people. Then the argument is made people need to see the Others as one of them and also defer to everything they want or else die. Gee, I wonder why the humans hate Others and the people seen supporting the Others?
I almost feel bad for liking this book, but in the end I am attached to Meg, and I love the elemental ponies, so I want the next book but I hope the Others continue the softer face and realize even outside scared humans shouldn't be eaten and maybe given a little freedom to actually survive outside of water taxes and gasoline tickets.
Here is where my problem lies:
The bad guys as they are presented to us are the humans. They are invaders from a foreign continent. Of course, even on their home continent they are trapped on managed areas of land and live at the behest of the Others, who aren't exactly benevolent dictators. So, yes, they form groups like Humans First and Last, because they are persecuted and threatened for breaking arbitrary rules that are defined by an outside culture/race/species. So, bad guys? Of course, within that core are bad people who are using and abusing the prophets, but your average individual doesn't even know who they are, and the Others don't even know the prophets are being used like this so they don't even have that as an excuse for their actions. Then, you have the good guy Others who at a slight to one of their kind will wipe out all the humans with impudence. In fact, they control every resource the humans have access to and invest only in what they like. Of course the humans here are admittedly invaders to a non-native continent, but the ones back home "where they belong" are getting treated just as badly. So, the books are written in such a way that everyone works with the Others to keep the killing from happening primarily by getting done whatever the Others like, and the Others pretty much put up with them because one little individual is "special" to them and the rest can die in fire and flood and they really don't care, because they are lesser beings to be put up with.
There are literally no good guys here, just a lot of innocent humans who are oppressed and angry, some bad humans who are fighting back, and abusive to humans and Others alike, and the Others, who almost as a whole put up with us like livestock they can euthanize whenever they would like, except for a few pets they really enjoy and find amusing. When I could ignore this and root for Meg, one of the only true innocents and the Others who are protecting her it was great, but the constant reminder that the Others would wipe out even innocents to protect the few innocents they like they are less nature spirits and more human than is comfortable, even as the author tries to convince you this is "nature" and not "human nature". Hardly. Nature kills simply because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Elementals kill everyone because the only human they like was injured by a few bad people. Then the argument is made people need to see the Others as one of them and also defer to everything they want or else die. Gee, I wonder why the humans hate Others and the people seen supporting the Others?
I almost feel bad for liking this book, but in the end I am attached to Meg, and I love the elemental ponies, so I want the next book but I hope the Others continue the softer face and realize even outside scared humans shouldn't be eaten and maybe given a little freedom to actually survive outside of water taxes and gasoline tickets.