568 reviews for:

Ashes of Man

Christopher Ruocchio

4.41 AVERAGE

melx91's review

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

tkubas1's review

2.0

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The most pointless of the whole series so far. The action was boring. The story situations and villains were not memorable.

The scene near the beginning with the Emperor was the strongest scenes in the book. He is becoming one of my favorite characters of the whole series. It sets up something you think is going to be amazing and has tons of highly intriguing prospects for story direction. I was very excited to keep reading after that. Unfortunately, that's the high point of the book. Some characters die, but it did not hit me on an emotional level.

I think this author excels at political dialogue scenes, but action isn't his best. Long, drawn-out action scenes don't work as well as long, drawn-out dialogue, world-building, or philosophy scenes.

jesseloane's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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: Yes

vari's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

joesd95's review

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

harrytobooks's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

csdaley's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leatb's review

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Loveable characters: No

jackandr's review

4.0

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4.5
first half was a little slow but second half really picked up and got me excited for book 6.

conordu123's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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