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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
fast-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
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
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:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
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
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
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:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
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
This book had immense world building, complex characters, intriguing plot, some well written time travel, and a fully developed magic system. I truly felt like I was on a journey with Davian and enjoyed seeing him discover everything that he did. Looking forward to continuing the series.
It had potential, but it just failed to deliver on it. In a word, it was clumsy. It's been kinda hard for me to define what exactly clumsiness is, but I'll give a go at a couple examples.
It had good mystery, but it gave you too much mystery too fast, so it felt like it was cliche. It had that fun trope of, "hidden magic no one knows about" but it gave you too much, too fast, so it felt cliche. There were no realistic slow parts. For example, as soon as you saw from the shadow's point of view, she's immediately taken to the secret lair, and then she immediately gets approached by the crazy guy noone has ever approached before, then he immediately kills her brand new friend that idk why i'm supposed to like after only 5 minutes with him. and ofc she is immediately brought into the closest circle of trust of the most important people.
idk, the whole thing was just too constantly cliche, like it was sadly aping better fiction. It knew what it was supposed to do, and it tried its best, but it could neveractually pull it off.
And it REALLY failed to have any plot or emotional investment from me. and jesus, that doesn't even mention that everytime there was the potential for suprise or suspense, it's like the author went out of their way to ruin it completely. gross forshadowing that leaves no one in doubt that the unobtrusive character is really the prince. a character "dies" and then instead of letting us think that for a while from the viewpoint of their friends, instead the author immediately takes of to the viewpoint of the dead character so we can't possibly have any suspense. there are 3 books, but I won't bother with the next ones.
It had good mystery, but it gave you too much mystery too fast, so it felt like it was cliche. It had that fun trope of, "hidden magic no one knows about" but it gave you too much, too fast, so it felt cliche. There were no realistic slow parts. For example, as soon as you saw from the shadow's point of view, she's immediately taken to the secret lair, and then she immediately gets approached by the crazy guy noone has ever approached before, then he immediately kills her brand new friend that idk why i'm supposed to like after only 5 minutes with him. and ofc she is immediately brought into the closest circle of trust of the most important people.
idk, the whole thing was just too constantly cliche, like it was sadly aping better fiction. It knew what it was supposed to do, and it tried its best, but it could neveractually pull it off.
And it REALLY failed to have any plot or emotional investment from me. and jesus, that doesn't even mention that everytime there was the potential for suprise or suspense, it's like the author went out of their way to ruin it completely. gross forshadowing that leaves no one in doubt that the unobtrusive character is really the prince. a character "dies" and then instead of letting us think that for a while from the viewpoint of their friends, instead the author immediately takes of to the viewpoint of the dead character so we can't possibly have any suspense. there are 3 books, but I won't bother with the next ones.