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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
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:
Complicated
I LOVED this book.
I'll be recommending it from here on out.
Why haven't we seen anything about it online?
Books 2 and 3 are an instant buy.
What a well fleshed out world. What a unique magic system. Such good plot twists.
I'll be recommending it from here on out.
Why haven't we seen anything about it online?
Books 2 and 3 are an instant buy.
What a well fleshed out world. What a unique magic system. Such good plot twists.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-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
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-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
Pretty interesting world. I love the idea of bone tithing to create constructs and the resultant shard sickness. The surprise/reveals were pretty good, too. Will definitely read the second book.
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
In a world once ruled by god-like beings, an Empire formed and defeated them using bone shard magic - creating animalistic Constructs encoded with the master's desires, formed by combining and carving shards of bone. Lin is the Emperor's daughter, but he hasn't trusted her since she lost her memories five years ago; she's determined to use his bone shard magic to get her power back and take him down. Jovis is the world's best smuggler, and he's accidentally thrown into saving children from bone shard tithing whilst in the search for his wife. In these and other perspectives, we see how the foundation of this world is about to shift.
I read this for Friendathon, the readathon I host about reading your friends' tastes in books. I read this for the prompt to buddy read. This book is featured in my vlog here: https://youtu.be/uzDec4VAXqc
I've heard hype for and even owned this book for so long without knowing much about what it actually contains, and if I'm honest, I am feeling let down. After seeing so many people love this (though not the sequels), I feel absolutely nothing for it. My main take aways were that it was unremarkable and forgettable. I really liked the idea of the magic system - it felt like Daughter of Smoke and Bone meets Foundryside. We don't, however, see that much development of the system in this installment. There are four perspectives we follow, and though they were interconnected somewhat, they felt disparate enough in tone that they didn't make a cohesive whole. Jovis was the strongest of the main three, with a personality and developing plot. Lin felt very typical YA in personality (or lack thereof) and step-by-step plotline. The two girlfriends flickered between boring and annoying. All three of these I could hardly feel strongly about, especially since they often felt repetitive. Sand really captured my attention - it felt like an interlude in Stormlight Archives in its strange and wonderful juxtaposition - but she's so little of the page count. There was also a very strange choice to have Jovis and Lin be in first person POV, but not the others, which got my English minor brain in a tizzy. I got through this book fairly quickly, but not even a month after reading I struggle to remember much except being unimpressed.
Overall, this book will leave my mind soon after writing this review. It didn't really do anything wrong, but it didn't do anything exceptionally either.
I read this for Friendathon, the readathon I host about reading your friends' tastes in books. I read this for the prompt to buddy read. This book is featured in my vlog here: https://youtu.be/uzDec4VAXqc
I've heard hype for and even owned this book for so long without knowing much about what it actually contains, and if I'm honest, I am feeling let down. After seeing so many people love this (though not the sequels), I feel absolutely nothing for it. My main take aways were that it was unremarkable and forgettable. I really liked the idea of the magic system - it felt like Daughter of Smoke and Bone meets Foundryside. We don't, however, see that much development of the system in this installment. There are four perspectives we follow, and though they were interconnected somewhat, they felt disparate enough in tone that they didn't make a cohesive whole. Jovis was the strongest of the main three, with a personality and developing plot. Lin felt very typical YA in personality (or lack thereof) and step-by-step plotline. The two girlfriends flickered between boring and annoying. All three of these I could hardly feel strongly about, especially since they often felt repetitive. Sand really captured my attention - it felt like an interlude in Stormlight Archives in its strange and wonderful juxtaposition - but she's so little of the page count. There was also a very strange choice to have Jovis and Lin be in first person POV, but not the others, which got my English minor brain in a tizzy. I got through this book fairly quickly, but not even a month after reading I struggle to remember much except being unimpressed.
Overall, this book will leave my mind soon after writing this review. It didn't really do anything wrong, but it didn't do anything exceptionally either.