Reviews - The Crown of Gilded Bones: A Blood and Ash Novel

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The Crown of Gilded Bones: A Blood and Ash Novel

Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.03 AVERAGE

slbeck94's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

banjobillss's review against another edition

4.0

Tbh så var den ganska mid. Långt utdragen men det kändes som att poppys personlighet gick åt helvete i mitten. Najs att den kom tillbaka. Så glad att jag lyssnade på den för annars hade jag aldrig pallat med hela

rissyjordan's review against another edition

3.5

informative 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

This book was a lot of info dumping. Just when I feel like I’ve got the hang of everything… I don’t lol. I don’t know if it’s just me, or the book.

Not much was a shock in this book. I’m not sure if it was supposed to be that way… or if the reveals were supposed to be big. That seems to be a running theme with this series.
It was pretty slow, but still a decent read. The first 100 pages were fire though.
So much could have been cut out, I’m not sure what was with all the dragging and repetition of stupid stuff. Like yes, I get it. Cas likes knives and stabby women. Poppy likes stabbing. It turns him on. They like to fuck a lot. Yes, Willa’s journal is an inside joke. Does it have to be mentioned every 5 seconds with them? They have nothing better to talk about than knives and stabbing and Willa and horniness? And ok fine, poppy asks a lot of questions (the authors way of giving us more world building). That could have been done more subtely than her saying hey I have another question and Kieran complaining.

I also feel like Poppy is pretty OP with all this new found power? Just way too much too fast. It just seems to convenient. But I guess we’ll see

arbryant's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense 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: Complicated

The beginning and end were super exciting and fast paced. But the middle was TOUGH. It took me forever to get through because I could only read a chapter until I was too bored to continue. The dialogue was so basic and repetitive that it was painful to read. So much time was spent with characters literally just telling eachother things, rather than ACTUAL world building. Which, by the way, was hard to follow. I couldn’t even begin to tell you the difference between gods and dieties and second sons and elementals and regular Atlantans. And all of the gods’ (dieties?) names were so similar that I didn’t even attempt to keep it straight.

But the end was exciting, so I’ll probably pick up the next book in the series immediately 🤷🏻‍♀️