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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
Loved it even more than "The Bird and the Sword"! Amy Harmon should write more fantasy!
I loved loved loved the first book in this series, The Bird and the Sword, but I just could not get into this one. I was not a fan of the characters, and the plot seemed to be going nowhere. There was a lot of traveling and feelings and nothing seemed to happen. Disappointing, compared to how fantastic the first book was. Blah.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
I have to admit Kjell was not the most sympathetic MC at first but my god the yearning and the stomping was everything! I wish Sasha had been abit more fleshed out but those are the perils of POV I guess. Some deus ex machina at the end but as with the first book, great vibes, and really good magic system.
Ich habe das Buch nach 200 Seiten abgebrochen. Nicht weil es mir nicht gefallen hat, sondern weil ich es mir in dem Moment zu viel Kummer war. Ich habe furchtbar mit Kjell mitgelitten. Und auch wenn ich den Schluss schnell überflogen habe und weiß das es ein Happy End gibt, war mir nicht mehr nach dem Buch.
challenging
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-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
Amy Harmon writes so beautifully! This book just had way too much fantasy and not enough romance for me...
I absolutely adored the first book in this series, but it was romance heavy and fantasy light.... so I started this book with the expectation of the same, and then I waited, and waited, and waited, for this amazing love story.... and I have finished the book, and I am still waiting!
As we all know when things do not live up to expectations, there is a bit of a letdown, this is what I felt with this book let down.... even the characters in this book did not capture my heart, halfway through I really didn’t care anymore about Kjell and Sasha; even Lark who I loved so much from the previous book seemed to have a bit of a personality transplant.... wow! That all sounds a bit harsh, and it wasn’t a bad book it is just the previous three books I have read from Amy Harmon have been strong five stars and this just wasn’t for me....
narration: the narrator did a very good job, I just wasn’t expecting Kjell to have a British accent, I need to go check the narration on the previous book, because I am 98% certain that Lark did not💛
I absolutely adored the first book in this series, but it was romance heavy and fantasy light.... so I started this book with the expectation of the same, and then I waited, and waited, and waited, for this amazing love story.... and I have finished the book, and I am still waiting!
As we all know when things do not live up to expectations, there is a bit of a letdown, this is what I felt with this book let down.... even the characters in this book did not capture my heart, halfway through I really didn’t care anymore about Kjell and Sasha; even Lark who I loved so much from the previous book seemed to have a bit of a personality transplant.... wow! That all sounds a bit harsh, and it wasn’t a bad book it is just the previous three books I have read from Amy Harmon have been strong five stars and this just wasn’t for me....
narration: the narrator did a very good job, I just wasn’t expecting Kjell to have a British accent, I need to go check the narration on the previous book, because I am 98% certain that Lark did not💛
I remember being totally and thoroughly shaken last year when reading "The Bird and the Sword". The world-building was excellent, the characters were compelling but most of all, the book, story AND writing, was so poetic I just couldn't put it down and it landed right away on my "favorites of all times" shelf.
This second installment in what has now become "Chronicles" definitely earned its own five stars. But I wasn't grabbed by the story the way I was in book 1. I felt this book was more of a romance, while the first one was a powerful balancing act between fantasy and romance.
Now bear with me, I still gave it five stars ... because the unwrapping of love between Kjell and Sasha was beautifully written. Kjell's reluctance and cluelessness when faced with his feelings, Sasha's simplicity and yet tremendous strength were all compelling.
"Do you know how to hate ?" he asked, his voice sharp, ricocheting through the chamber. "If you don't know how to hate, how could you possibly know how to love ?"
"I don't have to know how to die to know how to live", she said simply, and he found he had no response."
And what a powerful love they had :
"There were no secrets, no sorrows, nothing hidden, nothing lost. They saw not what would be or what had been, but only what was.
She saw him.
He saw her.
And they saw nothing else."
But besides this beautiful love story, neither the plot nor the secondary characters were as compelling as I remembered book 1 was for me. I loved Jerick, but I felt we didn't get to know much about Aren.
This second installment in what has now become "Chronicles" definitely earned its own five stars. But I wasn't grabbed by the story the way I was in book 1. I felt this book was more of a romance, while the first one was a powerful balancing act between fantasy and romance.
Now bear with me, I still gave it five stars ... because the unwrapping of love between Kjell and Sasha was beautifully written. Kjell's reluctance and cluelessness when faced with his feelings, Sasha's simplicity and yet tremendous strength were all compelling.
"Do you know how to hate ?" he asked, his voice sharp, ricocheting through the chamber. "If you don't know how to hate, how could you possibly know how to love ?"
"I don't have to know how to die to know how to live", she said simply, and he found he had no response."
And what a powerful love they had :
"There were no secrets, no sorrows, nothing hidden, nothing lost. They saw not what would be or what had been, but only what was.
She saw him.
He saw her.
And they saw nothing else."
But besides this beautiful love story, neither the plot nor the secondary characters were as compelling as I remembered book 1 was for me. I loved Jerick, but I felt we didn't get to know much about Aren.
I liked the sequel better than the first one... I think. Still some problematic relationship things, but a delightful story none-the-less