Reviews

The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu

bgil789's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

seba_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

rbaron11's review against another edition

adventurous 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

kennyo's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

dinibharadwaj's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

A grand sequel that threw open the world and added in more complexity in terms of characters, plot and themes, extremely compelling despite its size.

lilgrizzles's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book had so much...

There is the idea here of it being a fantasy world, one where the gods walk among us humans, affect our day to day. Giant whale/narwhal creatures and giant falcon's that use helium to fly. Giant herbivore dragon cows. Giant men with double pupils. Horses (well, one horse) that was ten feet tall that carried said giant on its back.

These are the fantastical elements. But somehow, this book felt less fantastical and more historical fiction. These places never existed. These wars never occured. 

But it still felt less fantastical than so many other series.

The characters were so much deeper in this book than the first, the are developed and are richer for it. Luan Zya in the first book to the second was just more real. 

The one thing that Liu did so well in this book was made the characters more real, and made even the smallest character important.

Such an improvement over the first.

brina_jagodic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

janbabs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Holy hell that was a lot to unpack! I've never read anything like this series. Have had to leave myself notes for the next book 😅 
Ken Liu is a genius. This is part politics, part history, part fantasy, part science, part engineering. My brain hurts! Cannot wait to see where this goes

duriens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

2.75

motionsickgayboy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25