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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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
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
I slogged though book 2, but this series has gone off in a direction that doesn't bring me pleasure. That's ok; I don't have to like everything an author writes, but I have plenty of books to read left in my pile, and don't need to finish this one.
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
A satisfying conclusion to the series, although weird parallels to Sanderson's Skyward series.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-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
Reading the last book in the Final Architecture trilogy so soon after the second taught me that my relationship to sci-fi has changed a lot. Gone are the days where I could subsist on plot alone. To be fair, I can do it in bursts, but speeding through a sci-fi trilogy feels…a little boring now.
The plot of ‘Lords of Uncreation’ is fine. It moves fast and is action-packed and exciting. The writing was a little repetitive though. Tchaikovsky would repeat a lot of what he wrote in previous chapters or books and made passages much longer than they needed to be.
It’s at the character level where I find this book most lacking. This book (and the second one) does the thing I have noticed from other sci-fi/fantasy trilogies where the cast of characters grows in order to fit the ever expanding plot, but in doing so, loses focus on the core cast and the magic of what made them so compelling in the first place.
We don’t get strong character arcs with real growth/movement. The cast in this book stays the same, for the most part, with maybe the exception of Timo. Characters at the end are maybe a little more traumatized from the events of the plot, but there is no change that is satisfying. There are moments of the third book where we don’t get a main cast POV for a while and it’s like they’ve been relegated to supporting characters. But I guess, in a way, all the main cast are supporting characters to the plot, which is supreme.
Anyways— this was a diverting read, but overall not too impressed and squanders the hope of the first book in the trilogy.
The plot of ‘Lords of Uncreation’ is fine. It moves fast and is action-packed and exciting. The writing was a little repetitive though. Tchaikovsky would repeat a lot of what he wrote in previous chapters or books and made passages much longer than they needed to be.
It’s at the character level where I find this book most lacking. This book (and the second one) does the thing I have noticed from other sci-fi/fantasy trilogies where the cast of characters grows in order to fit the ever expanding plot, but in doing so, loses focus on the core cast and the magic of what made them so compelling in the first place.
We don’t get strong character arcs with real growth/movement. The cast in this book stays the same, for the most part, with maybe the exception of Timo. Characters at the end are maybe a little more traumatized from the events of the plot, but there is no change that is satisfying. There are moments of the third book where we don’t get a main cast POV for a while and it’s like they’ve been relegated to supporting characters. But I guess, in a way, all the main cast are supporting characters to the plot, which is supreme.
Anyways— this was a diverting read, but overall not too impressed and squanders the hope of the first book in the trilogy.
I’m incredibly sad it’s over.
Wow, what a fantastic series. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but after the Children of Time series I trusted it would be good. Well done Adrian, I sincerely hope you’ll find it in yourself to tell us more stories from this universe.
Wow, what a fantastic series. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but after the Children of Time series I trusted it would be good. Well done Adrian, I sincerely hope you’ll find it in yourself to tell us more stories from this universe.
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes