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3.0 AVERAGE
3.0 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
C 5
A 3
W 4
P 5
I 7
L 6
E 5
35/70 = 5
Boek is gewoon een proloog maar het volgende spel, dus geen rond verhaal.
Verder best een vermakelijk verhaal maar dat verpest het wel enigszins.
Weinig diepgang of spanning, dus veel meer dan vermakelijk was het niet.
A 3
W 4
P 5
I 7
L 6
E 5
35/70 = 5
Boek is gewoon een proloog maar het volgende spel, dus geen rond verhaal.
Verder best een vermakelijk verhaal maar dat verpest het wel enigszins.
Weinig diepgang of spanning, dus veel meer dan vermakelijk was het niet.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
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:
No
This was good but not great - was nice to spend time with these characters again and I really liked the side story with the queen just wish it was fleshed out more.
Won from First reads giveaway on GoodReads.
I've never played any of the Fable games, so I was a little skeptical about reading this. But overall it was a okay book the characters and plot were easy to follow. The jumping around made it a little hard to follow at times though.
I've never played any of the Fable games, so I was a little skeptical about reading this. But overall it was a okay book the characters and plot were easy to follow. The jumping around made it a little hard to follow at times though.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I did like this book until its ending and agree with everyone that it is a lot of plodding with no real pay off. I get that its a prequel and its made to set up for the game.
Also the way Reaver is repeatedly called a Dandy in this book feels like everyone is saying Dandy in the same tone as the F-slur. Yes he's queer but holy sh*t theres actual ways hes evil you can focus on.
Also the way Reaver is repeatedly called a Dandy in this book feels like everyone is saying Dandy in the same tone as the F-slur. Yes he's queer but holy sh*t theres actual ways hes evil you can focus on.
adventurous
dark
tense
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:
Yes
Este libro me ha drenado horas de felicidad.
Vaya puta agonía, el Rondador estaba muy fetén, vale, pero poner un puto enemigo que sea "La Oscuridad" en un juego donde puedes ser malo o bueno es una patochada de dimensiones colosales y hacer un libro donde el protagonista en si proviene de un juego donde no tiene personalidad también (Encima si haces que el resto de los personajes tengan personalidad genérica 1)
Conclusión: Que Fable IV sea sobre la época de los Arcontes, sobre la era de los heroes o cualquier punto entre eso y Fable II pero de Fable III para delante solamente hay desgracia argumental
Vaya puta agonía, el Rondador estaba muy fetén, vale, pero poner un puto enemigo que sea "La Oscuridad" en un juego donde puedes ser malo o bueno es una patochada de dimensiones colosales y hacer un libro donde el protagonista en si proviene de un juego donde no tiene personalidad también (Encima si haces que el resto de los personajes tengan personalidad genérica 1)
Conclusión: Que Fable IV sea sobre la época de los Arcontes, sobre la era de los heroes o cualquier punto entre eso y Fable II pero de Fable III para delante solamente hay desgracia argumental
Having played all the fable games, this was a wave of nostalgia. While fable the journey is no longer playable, the game this prequels, the story picks up after fable 3. It’s great to see so many beloved and familiar characters after so many years. Still one of the best game franchises in my opinion. Here’s to hoping fable 4/ the reboot comes soon!
My first completed novel of 2015 (ie. not manga), and what a stinker!
Being a lover of Fable I ~ III (a series of XBOX fantasy-rpg video games) and fantasy novels, I was all set to adore this book. Alas, it was not meant to be.
This book just crushes everything Fable III was about. The Darkness that was crushed in that game is back and as strong as ever. How, no one knows. So the sacrifices made in the previous battle counted for nothing.
One complaint that other reviewers have addressed is that in Fable III (and II), you could chose to play as a prince or princess (later to be king or queen), and the hero monarch here is most definitely male, being a king an all. While I understand why the author would settle on a gender for clarity when writing, I do wish we could have had a female; or at least maybe a future book featuring a Hero queen instead of a Hero king.
Another problem I have with the king is that EVERYONE LOVES HIM AND HE LOVES EVERYONE ELSE AND EVERYONE HAS A WARM AND FUZZY FEELING!!!! KILL ME NOW!!!! In the game, if you choose to be an altruistic monarch, most of the population will love you. Zoom in on the word most, there; and you can always make individuals hate you depending on if you have rude or violent interactions with them or in front of them. There is no such thing as every citizen loving their leader, even in make-believe Fable.
The king just came off as too happy no matter what happened, and not just to put a brave face on it; his thoughts (told 3rd person) don't ever seem too alarmed about any setback or even about going away to war on his wedding night.
A miner detail I caught early in the book states that the king's hair is getting a bit gray. In the game, the Hero was, I would estimate, 16 - 20 years old, and this book takes place 9 years later; the king is 25 to 29 here. While some people start graying earlier than others (I've caught gray hairs since I was 25, due to having been through a big health ordeal), but here it just seemed to be a week attempt to show that time had passed when the king gazes in the mirror.
Another thing that annoyed me is that the king never had a name. He was "king" to the readers as well as everyone around him. The queen didn't even have a pet name for him. The main character never had a proper name in the game either, but the author is creating a whole lot here that wasn't even loosely mentioned in the game, I don't know why she couldn't just call him something, anything.
And I thought it was a very stupid plot point that as the hero was thinking of. I just thought that was really stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
Speaking of stupid, here we have the Grand Supreme Idiot, Queen Laylah. Everyone loves her because she is so kind and sweet. So the book says. She's OK, but I don't see her as being very kind or sweet. They say she would go out aming the populace and do good deeds, but she doesn't do it during the course of the novel, nor does she seem to miss it; it's not even on her mind. In fact, she gets vindictive towards the leader of her army, Timmins, because he is rough with her when he teaches her sword fighting (she's learning sword fighting because she's such a useless prat, despite growing up in a region afflicted with demons; she just hid in a hidey-hole all her life, apparently). Come on, he's trying to toughen her up, and he's in the army. My grandfather that lived with me and my family used to be a drill sergeant in the army, and he could be very rough and course sometimes; you have to be when you're going to fight wars, so army men/women can't really be blamed if they are rough around the edges. Because of this, early on she wants Timmins dismissed from service just because he tells her how badly she is progressing to her face. I'm sensitive, but OMG! What a baby! Where is her kindness and understanding now?
Second, the queen hails from Aurora, an isolated place with no government or army; just a woman, Kalan, who speaks for them. She couldn't be further away from politics if she sealed herself in a cave. But as soon as the king is gone to help defend Samarkand from the Darkness, she starts second guessing many of the key bills he enacted that are working perfectly fine, but she thinks could be better suited to the country if she...you know...reversed it.
For example, she wants to enact a curfew that never existed in previous years in the location of her best friend Page's information network. This ring of spies loyal to Page not only supply information to current the king and queen, but they were key in overthrowing the king's evil brother who ruled previously. She expects Page to understand because it's where she and her spies were centralized when they were gathering information on the last king's strategy secrets and such (essentially, Laylah is thinking that someone will try to overthrow her and her husband in the same way and location, though she doesn't use those words exactly). Understandably, in my opinion, Page does not understand because she is performing a service and fiercely loyal to the king, and this could hamper her. Laylah then gets in a huff befitting her childlike intelligence. I don't know why the king married her or what he saw in her.
When the evil Reaver shows up, who her husband himself told her was an awful man who tried to kill him for entertainment, she immediately takes him on board as an advisor while she will not listen to Page or Timmins.
Finally, the ending. What ending? This book seems like it's only half or 2/3 of the way through by the last page (and the story is not continued in the game that this is prequel too, but more on that below). We never learn what the evil Empress's agenda is,.
This novel really doesn't serve well as a good prequel to Fable: The Journey either. Only the prologue and epilogue directly tie in to it, and it doesn't amount to much (the main part of the novel is a continuation of Fable III, which takes place a long time before The Journey, where Heroes haven't existed for decades). I haven't played The Journey, but I've read the plot synopsis online, and none of the characters from the novel/Fable III have anything to do with it, except for Theresa (Theresa is a common thread through the whole series though, so that's nothing special).
I don't know what the point of this novel was, except to ruin my happiness at the end of Fable III.
Being a lover of Fable I ~ III (a series of XBOX fantasy-rpg video games) and fantasy novels, I was all set to adore this book. Alas, it was not meant to be.
This book just crushes everything Fable III was about. The Darkness that was crushed in that game is back and as strong as ever. How, no one knows. So the sacrifices made in the previous battle counted for nothing.
One complaint that other reviewers have addressed is that in Fable III (and II), you could chose to play as a prince or princess (later to be king or queen), and the hero monarch here is most definitely male, being a king an all. While I understand why the author would settle on a gender for clarity when writing, I do wish we could have had a female; or at least maybe a future book featuring a Hero queen instead of a Hero king.
Another problem I have with the king is that EVERYONE LOVES HIM AND HE LOVES EVERYONE ELSE AND EVERYONE HAS A WARM AND FUZZY FEELING!!!! KILL ME NOW!!!! In the game, if you choose to be an altruistic monarch, most of the population will love you. Zoom in on the word most, there; and you can always make individuals hate you depending on if you have rude or violent interactions with them or in front of them. There is no such thing as every citizen loving their leader, even in make-believe Fable.
The king just came off as too happy no matter what happened, and not just to put a brave face on it; his thoughts (told 3rd person) don't ever seem too alarmed about any setback or even about going away to war on his wedding night.
A miner detail I caught early in the book states that the king's hair is getting a bit gray. In the game, the Hero was, I would estimate, 16 - 20 years old, and this book takes place 9 years later; the king is 25 to 29 here. While some people start graying earlier than others (I've caught gray hairs since I was 25, due to having been through a big health ordeal), but here it just seemed to be a week attempt to show that time had passed when the king gazes in the mirror.
Another thing that annoyed me is that the king never had a name. He was "king" to the readers as well as everyone around him. The queen didn't even have a pet name for him. The main character never had a proper name in the game either, but the author is creating a whole lot here that wasn't even loosely mentioned in the game, I don't know why she couldn't just call him something, anything.
And I thought it was a very stupid plot point that as the hero was thinking of
Spoiler
the deceased Sir Walter, Jasper the butler, and a dragon, the magical sand in front of him turned into a wise dragon who sounded like Jasper when he spokeSpeaking of stupid, here we have the Grand Supreme Idiot, Queen Laylah. Everyone loves her because she is so kind and sweet. So the book says. She's OK, but I don't see her as being very kind or sweet. They say she would go out aming the populace and do good deeds, but she doesn't do it during the course of the novel, nor does she seem to miss it; it's not even on her mind. In fact, she gets vindictive towards the leader of her army, Timmins, because he is rough with her when he teaches her sword fighting (she's learning sword fighting because she's such a useless prat, despite growing up in a region afflicted with demons; she just hid in a hidey-hole all her life, apparently). Come on, he's trying to toughen her up, and he's in the army. My grandfather that lived with me and my family used to be a drill sergeant in the army, and he could be very rough and course sometimes; you have to be when you're going to fight wars, so army men/women can't really be blamed if they are rough around the edges. Because of this, early on she wants Timmins dismissed from service just because he tells her how badly she is progressing to her face. I'm sensitive, but OMG! What a baby! Where is her kindness and understanding now?
Second, the queen hails from Aurora, an isolated place with no government or army; just a woman, Kalan, who speaks for them. She couldn't be further away from politics if she sealed herself in a cave. But as soon as the king is gone to help defend Samarkand from the Darkness, she starts second guessing many of the key bills he enacted that are working perfectly fine, but she thinks could be better suited to the country if she...you know...reversed it.
For example, she wants to enact a curfew that never existed in previous years in the location of her best friend Page's information network. This ring of spies loyal to Page not only supply information to current the king and queen, but they were key in overthrowing the king's evil brother who ruled previously. She expects Page to understand because it's where she and her spies were centralized when they were gathering information on the last king's strategy secrets and such (essentially, Laylah is thinking that someone will try to overthrow her and her husband in the same way and location, though she doesn't use those words exactly). Understandably, in my opinion, Page does not understand because she is performing a service and fiercely loyal to the king, and this could hamper her. Laylah then gets in a huff befitting her childlike intelligence. I don't know why the king married her or what he saw in her.
When the evil Reaver shows up, who her husband himself told her was an awful man who tried to kill him for entertainment, she immediately takes him on board as an advisor while she will not listen to Page or Timmins.
Spoiler
The short version is, she learns what a buffoon she really is.Finally, the ending. What ending? This book seems like it's only half or 2/3 of the way through by the last page (and the story is not continued in the game that this is prequel too, but more on that below). We never learn what the evil Empress's agenda is,
Spoiler
why or how she is controlling the Darkness, or who the boss she eludes to is. It ends unresolved, the Albion forces are beaten back, the Darkness still exists, and the king is in the Empress's dungeon; while Page and Timmins are just at the end being summoned back to the castle after having to flee for their lives because Laylah believed Reaver over themThis novel really doesn't serve well as a good prequel to Fable: The Journey either. Only the prologue and epilogue directly tie in to it, and it doesn't amount to much (the main part of the novel is a continuation of Fable III, which takes place a long time before The Journey, where Heroes haven't existed for decades). I haven't played The Journey, but I've read the plot synopsis online, and none of the characters from the novel/Fable III have anything to do with it, except for Theresa (Theresa is a common thread through the whole series though, so that's nothing special).
I don't know what the point of this novel was, except to ruin my happiness at the end of Fable III.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No