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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
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:
Yes
...merp.
This novel disappointed me. [b: Darkwitch Rising|232023|Darkwitch Rising (The Troy Game, #3)|Sara Douglass|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388677274s/232023.jpg|3162235] is so excellent, playing the characters that have been so thoroughly crafted from hate to acceptance to love like a little perfectly tuned orchestra, and - here we go! A new major female character and lots and lots of Brutus. I'm tired of Brutus. Brutus needs to chill.
As an end to the series, the plot twists are interesting enough and the ending mostly satisfies. But because of how it ends, very little ties back to the development a reader has suffered through (let's be honest: these people are mostly terrible). You could probably read this book as a standalone novel and only be a little confused. We learn very early that the "flash-forwards" (those chapter prologues in italics scattered throughout the previous three books) were dreams Brutus was having, so no need to have paid attention to them much. True, Grace as a narrator is "better" than Cornelia/Caela/Noah ever was, since she's more determined and down-to-Earth (a more stereotypical heroine). But! That's not what I was here for! I wanted some crazy ending to the "soap opera for the ancient world" I'd been enjoying for 2000 pages, not a mildly traumatic action-adventure novel with romantic twists reminiscent of [b: Breaking Dawn|1162543|Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4)|Stephenie Meyer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1438120007s/1162543.jpg|2960529]. ARE WEYLAND AND EAVING OKAY?!?!?!
Okay /rant.
This novel disappointed me. [b: Darkwitch Rising|232023|Darkwitch Rising (The Troy Game, #3)|Sara Douglass|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388677274s/232023.jpg|3162235] is so excellent, playing the characters that have been so thoroughly crafted from hate to acceptance to love like a little perfectly tuned orchestra, and - here we go! A new major female character and lots and lots of Brutus. I'm tired of Brutus. Brutus needs to chill.
As an end to the series, the plot twists are interesting enough and the ending mostly satisfies. But because of how it ends, very little ties back to the development a reader has suffered through (let's be honest: these people are mostly terrible). You could probably read this book as a standalone novel and only be a little confused. We learn very early that the "flash-forwards" (those chapter prologues in italics scattered throughout the previous three books) were dreams Brutus was having, so no need to have paid attention to them much. True, Grace as a narrator is "better" than Cornelia/Caela/Noah ever was, since she's more determined and down-to-Earth (a more stereotypical heroine). But! That's not what I was here for! I wanted some crazy ending to the "soap opera for the ancient world" I'd been enjoying for 2000 pages, not a mildly traumatic action-adventure novel with romantic twists reminiscent of [b: Breaking Dawn|1162543|Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4)|Stephenie Meyer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1438120007s/1162543.jpg|2960529]. ARE WEYLAND AND EAVING OKAY?!?!?!
Okay /rant.
I really don't know what to think about this book.... I loved the 3rd book and I probably would have loved this one too if it did not end the way it did. I mean I did get closure but it was not the closure I wanted. It is like a movie that builds you up and you sit there all excited and then it just ends and you are left thinking "what the hell"????? I mean after everything that had transpired between all the characters the ending should have been more than what it was.....I was very disappointed.....
finally, in the last book of the series the characters get a little less annoying.
A very satisfactory ending to a series that started out really shaky for me. Had I not already had books 2 and 3 on the shelves, I probably would have stopped reading after the first book. I found very little in the opening of this series to admire. The characters were all around dreadful, caricatures instead of characters. What I later discovered was this was very much an intentional decision meant to give Brutus, Cornelia, Genvissa, and Coel a lot of room to grow. They eventually become complex and interesting characters. Sure, it takes them several lifetimes to grow into their full selves, but the wait is worth it.
One unexpected addition came into this last book that I thoroughly enjoyed. It's not often I run across Boudicca and Prasutugus in a fantasy novel, but I was quite enchanted with the author's decision to include them, even peripherally, in the struggle to beat the Troy Game.
One unexpected addition came into this last book that I thoroughly enjoyed. It's not often I run across Boudicca and Prasutugus in a fantasy novel, but I was quite enchanted with the author's decision to include them, even peripherally, in the struggle to beat the Troy Game.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
…honestly just disappointed with how the main antagonists from the previous books were pretty much sidelined? And maybe a little more before the epilogue would have been good, and a little less from earlier on…
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated