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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
I have not been this angry about the ending of a story since LOST.
I have reccommend this series to friends, patrons, and loved ones as "unputdownable" and "sweeping epic" and "fantasy at it's best" and I am so SO SO sorry I've done that because the ending just wiped away the entire thing, none of it ever happened. Poof, I wasted however many hours reading this story because it never actually happened.
It got an an extra star because the writing is fantastic. The words and story flow beautifully from this authors fingertips. If only she'd used her powers for good instead of evil.
I have reccommend this series to friends, patrons, and loved ones as "unputdownable" and "sweeping epic" and "fantasy at it's best" and I am so SO SO sorry I've done that because the ending just wiped away the entire thing, none of it ever happened. Poof, I wasted however many hours reading this story because it never actually happened.
It got an an extra star because the writing is fantastic. The words and story flow beautifully from this authors fingertips. If only she'd used her powers for good instead of evil.
I picked up this series on a whim and it has been a ride! I have enjoyed it but holy cow! Quite unexpected ending.
I just upped my rating of this because since finishing this book I've been unable to stop thinking about it. This is the strangest series I've ever read and so fascinating at the same time. Finishing this book was like surfacing from a strange, eerie, and beautiful dream, and I wandered around for at least half a day in a daze trying to sort through my feelings about it. In the end I find myself in the camp where I fully accept the ending and hope that the future Kelsea has created is as bright for her as it seems.
It got a bit creepier than I anticipated but overall I enjoyed it. This book is not for you if you’re hoping things go the way you think!
It’s always so disappointing when a really cool series ends on a weird/sour/bad note. Loved everything about this series until the last few chapters or so of this book.
Caveat: I did not finish mainly because I looked up spoilers.
But the vampire children army is still stupid. It could be the same thing if Finn (I do the audiobook so I guess at name spellings) had been hinted at AT ALL in book one.
There’s a fair amount about the Fetch in book one, and there seems to be little to no payoff.
I know how it ends. It’s like that shitty Next movie or the last Twilight book wherein like everyone dies and then poof somehow it’s all fixed. In this the somehow is Kelsea going back in time. Which isn’t the worst thing but the happy ending undoes all of the character progress and the point of those bogus history chapter headings (taken from the works of Father Tyler about the Glynn Queen, etc.)
I mean it felt like she should have somehow won in the end and fixed the kingdom. Instead her choices were to die in her castle or go back in time. It’s like the author wanted to keep the reader guessing in the most basic sense. When you nix the whole inevitably of the ending it’s just pointless. Unfulfilling. It’s not like I’m reading some random YA fantasy novel to find fulfillment, but you can have “lesser” quality books that feel fulfilling.
This is still not as bad as Charlaine Harris’s last three Sookie Stackhouse books. Harris was way too obviously trying to be unpredictable. When you try to be unpredictable without building a foundation you might as well just write random bullshit.
So my opinion isn’t the most helpful because I didn’t finish reading but usually the spoilers don’t really bother me. I guess it’s just when the spoilers culminate in ‘oh at the end she has a different life and everyone is alive.’ Good for Kelsea, bad for the reader.
Why have her mom alive pre-time travel? Why have her father be the guard she euthanized? The church stuff was very heavy handed and I hope at least the stupid vampire children army had a good go at the arvath and the holy father and all.
I’m done with this series.
But the vampire children army is still stupid. It could be the same thing if Finn (I do the audiobook so I guess at name spellings) had been hinted at AT ALL in book one.
There’s a fair amount about the Fetch in book one, and there seems to be little to no payoff.
I know how it ends. It’s like that shitty Next movie or the last Twilight book wherein like everyone dies and then poof somehow it’s all fixed. In this the somehow is Kelsea going back in time. Which isn’t the worst thing but the happy ending undoes all of the character progress and the point of those bogus history chapter headings (taken from the works of Father Tyler about the Glynn Queen, etc.)
I mean it felt like she should have somehow won in the end and fixed the kingdom. Instead her choices were to die in her castle or go back in time. It’s like the author wanted to keep the reader guessing in the most basic sense. When you nix the whole inevitably of the ending it’s just pointless. Unfulfilling. It’s not like I’m reading some random YA fantasy novel to find fulfillment, but you can have “lesser” quality books that feel fulfilling.
This is still not as bad as Charlaine Harris’s last three Sookie Stackhouse books. Harris was way too obviously trying to be unpredictable. When you try to be unpredictable without building a foundation you might as well just write random bullshit.
So my opinion isn’t the most helpful because I didn’t finish reading but usually the spoilers don’t really bother me. I guess it’s just when the spoilers culminate in ‘oh at the end she has a different life and everyone is alive.’ Good for Kelsea, bad for the reader.
Why have her mom alive pre-time travel? Why have her father be the guard she euthanized? The church stuff was very heavy handed and I hope at least the stupid vampire children army had a good go at the arvath and the holy father and all.
I’m done with this series.
Dovo ancora arrivare ad una valutazione definitiva. Ci sono troppe cose che non capisco di questo terzo volume.
Matey Christopher wrote me a good question about the rating for book three and I thought more of ye crew members might be curious. So for the record:
Christopher wrote: "You rated the first one a 5, no rating for the second, and now a 1? What happened to the quality of the series?"
Hmmm I did not realize that I didn't rate the second book. I will have to fix that. It has been a long while since I read the series and the initial thoughts on it are hazy. I did like the second book. But when I went to read the third one, I just kept putting it down and not wanting to pick it back up. I must have restarted it half a dozen times. As a side note, I currently be going through the list of series that I haven't finished and taking out the ones I won't finish because I am working on the Series Shakedown Part 6 post on me blog. I read the reviews and spoilers for the third book and realized I don't want to read the third book. So it gets one star because I lost interest and never finished it. And I don't think I ever will try it again hence why I finally rated it and put it on me abandoned ship shelf. Hope that all makes sense. Arrrr!
Christopher wrote: "You rated the first one a 5, no rating for the second, and now a 1? What happened to the quality of the series?"
Hmmm I did not realize that I didn't rate the second book. I will have to fix that. It has been a long while since I read the series and the initial thoughts on it are hazy. I did like the second book. But when I went to read the third one, I just kept putting it down and not wanting to pick it back up. I must have restarted it half a dozen times. As a side note, I currently be going through the list of series that I haven't finished and taking out the ones I won't finish because I am working on the Series Shakedown Part 6 post on me blog. I read the reviews and spoilers for the third book and realized I don't want to read the third book. So it gets one star because I lost interest and never finished it. And I don't think I ever will try it again hence why I finally rated it and put it on me abandoned ship shelf. Hope that all makes sense. Arrrr!
Not sure I liked this much. I didn’t so much mind the ending only that I found it a little unrealistic. Also so many questions haven’t really been answered regarding the magic and the sapphires. I was hoping that would be explained better.
The most disappointing ending.
What do you mean she changed the past and the future??? Nobody remembers her???? All the stuff about the Glynn Queen was not real????
It feels like such a cop out, setting up an ending from the very first page and then not going through with it in favor of a time travel thing. Bah.
What do you mean she changed the past and the future??? Nobody remembers her???? All the stuff about the Glynn Queen was not real????
It feels like such a cop out, setting up an ending from the very first page and then not going through with it in favor of a time travel thing. Bah.