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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
My patience with the series is running out. I must have read them too quickly. I don't feel an emotional pull when main events happen.
How to do this without spoiling anything...
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
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:
No
Emotional damage. turmoil. strife. GOD of course my 30th book this year had to end with a bang. Love this series but not loving that I have to wait until 2025 once I’m done with the next book for another to be published :,)
2.75
Very disappointing especially in the terms of character development and romance. Seriously is this the same Lukas Gray from the first two books? The same one who mutilated Ariel’s chicken and threatened the kitchen workers? Yuck, and I am so disappointed in Elloren moving on so quickly from the supposed love of her life and mate Yvan. Like come on, we all knew he would turn out to be alive so now there is a cliche love triangle set up for the next book. Although I’m let down by this book, I’m interested in reading the next to hope it resolves some of the inconsistencies or at least has Elloren ending up with Yvan!!
Very disappointing especially in the terms of character development and romance. Seriously is this the same Lukas Gray from the first two books? The same one who mutilated Ariel’s chicken and threatened the kitchen workers? Yuck, and I am so disappointed in Elloren moving on so quickly from the supposed love of her life and mate Yvan. Like come on, we all knew he would turn out to be alive so now there is a cliche love triangle set up for the next book. Although I’m let down by this book, I’m interested in reading the next to hope it resolves some of the inconsistencies or at least has Elloren ending up with Yvan!!
Yet again love this series can’t wait to start the next book! I feel like I’m going to be devastated when this series ends 😭
I know it I know it the whole the time and was yelling at this book the whole time! He had to have survived!
There wasn't a lot original in this section of the overall story, instead it just felt like it was building throughout the book. Yes, we see more of the side characters gearing up for war, taking a stand, carving out their opinions. But also there is a lot of just training sequences that didn't feel like they needed to be that long. Perhaps this could have been a novella? Still gonna keep reading.
I read book 1 and 2 of this series a couple of years ago and really enjoyed them. I found the plot interesting, the characters had depth and there was a really great play on paralleling this fantasy world with the real world in terms of social commentary and politics with an emphasis on being open minded and well informed. Those books included lessons, character development, an interesting magic system and world building. I feel like that’s why I’m so disappointed in The Shadow Wand, because it seems to have lost all of that.
The Shadow Wand follows our characters shortly after the events at the end of the last book. It allowed just enough of a time jump to get everyone where they need to be to kick things off… but then not much happens. I found myself very confused in terms of why everyone was doing what they were doing, why we have focus placed on certain characters at all, what the purpose of most of the plots are and why everything was divided into sections that don’t really make sense. In this book, I lost the drive behind each characters motivation and where exactly this series is going. I feel like books 1 and 2 had a very clear vision and this one feels so out of place and almost like it’s from a different series altogether.
I can really appreciate the effort that Forest has put into this world though. She knows all of the places, the political structure, the opposing sides, the different sub-sects of people and what their individual beliefs are. It’s so much to create and keep track of for a writer and I know it’s hard work weaving all of it into a story that is digestible to the average reader and you can tell she’s put a great deal of thought into it.
There’s so much planning with the world/politics but it gets lost with all of the different subplots and characters that you need to keep track of. There’s even a couple page chapter from a certain character’s POV but it’s just a single chapter for a very significant character and the events of that chapter seemed so haphazard that I wonder what the point of including it really was. We needed to have followed that character more leading up to that moment or just get rid of it altogether. I found myself caring less and less for the characters in general due to the sheer number of them and how little their plots actually moved.
And, on that note, it felt like the entire plot didn’t move. Elloren is our lead, she’s the main character that we are meant to feel for and follow the journey of but her entire character arc in this book took place in her last couple chapters. It seemed like their was no point to the first 3/4 of the book and even then she ends off pretty much where she started… except now she has some confidence I guess.
I wish that I had more positive things to say about this installment of the series but it’s diverted so much from proceeded it that it just feels out of place and jumbled. I think this is one of those rare times where I am going to choose to not continue reading a series. I’ve unfortunately lost interest after The Shadow Wand.
The Shadow Wand follows our characters shortly after the events at the end of the last book. It allowed just enough of a time jump to get everyone where they need to be to kick things off… but then not much happens. I found myself very confused in terms of why everyone was doing what they were doing, why we have focus placed on certain characters at all, what the purpose of most of the plots are and why everything was divided into sections that don’t really make sense. In this book, I lost the drive behind each characters motivation and where exactly this series is going. I feel like books 1 and 2 had a very clear vision and this one feels so out of place and almost like it’s from a different series altogether.
I can really appreciate the effort that Forest has put into this world though. She knows all of the places, the political structure, the opposing sides, the different sub-sects of people and what their individual beliefs are. It’s so much to create and keep track of for a writer and I know it’s hard work weaving all of it into a story that is digestible to the average reader and you can tell she’s put a great deal of thought into it.
There’s so much planning with the world/politics but it gets lost with all of the different subplots and characters that you need to keep track of. There’s even a couple page chapter from a certain character’s POV but it’s just a single chapter for a very significant character and the events of that chapter seemed so haphazard that I wonder what the point of including it really was. We needed to have followed that character more leading up to that moment or just get rid of it altogether. I found myself caring less and less for the characters in general due to the sheer number of them and how little their plots actually moved.
And, on that note, it felt like the entire plot didn’t move. Elloren is our lead, she’s the main character that we are meant to feel for and follow the journey of but her entire character arc in this book took place in her last couple chapters. It seemed like their was no point to the first 3/4 of the book and even then she ends off pretty much where she started… except now she has some confidence I guess.
I wish that I had more positive things to say about this installment of the series but it’s diverted so much from proceeded it that it just feels out of place and jumbled. I think this is one of those rare times where I am going to choose to not continue reading a series. I’ve unfortunately lost interest after The Shadow Wand.