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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
I liked it, some of the plot points were a little confusing, but whoever says it's sapphic lied to you.
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
adventurous
medium-paced
Although I really enjoyed the writing, I really struggled to get into this book. I liked the setting and enjoyed the characters but something about the plot bothered me. I don't think I ever really understood what was going on and everything always failed to make sense to me fully. I'm curious to see how the story continues and if maybe the second book in the series will feel more coherent.
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:
Complicated
I like Altair
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It was so promising for the first half… and then they got to Sharr. It was just plot twist after plot twist after plot twist. It was all so utterly boring. I didn‘t care for the romance at all, and the characters were honestly pissing me off by the end. It‘s so sad because it could‘ve been so good
I picked this up to read because I was interested in reading outside of the normal vaguely-European vaguely-historical norm.
If I had read this ~15 years ago, I probably would have loved it, but it ticks too many of the YA trope boxes that no longer do much for me: love angles, bad-boy love interest who actually has a heart of gold, magic "returning", a chosen one with a power she knows not, etc etc.
I listened to the first ~1 hour or so, and found the audio "spikes" really distracting -- the lady narrator had so many audio ups and downs that I at times thought I was listening to two different narrators. She did have a nice voice, when it wasn't up-and-down. The dude narrator was also good.
This isn't a bad book, but it's not a book for me (anymore). Put it in a time machine, please, 15-year-old me would have eaten this up with a spoon!
If I had read this ~15 years ago, I probably would have loved it, but it ticks too many of the YA trope boxes that no longer do much for me: love angles, bad-boy love interest who actually has a heart of gold, magic "returning", a chosen one with a power she knows not, etc etc.
I listened to the first ~1 hour or so, and found the audio "spikes" really distracting -- the lady narrator had so many audio ups and downs that I at times thought I was listening to two different narrators. She did have a nice voice, when it wasn't up-and-down. The dude narrator was also good.
This isn't a bad book, but it's not a book for me (anymore). Put it in a time machine, please, 15-year-old me would have eaten this up with a spoon!
adventurous
fast-paced
I basically had no clue what was going on the whole time. Not sure if that was just a me thing though.