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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
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 didn’t particularly like Lovisa and kind of dreaded getting to parts that focused on her, but by the end she grew on me. Loved getting an older and wiser Bitterblue! She’s a great character and I adored her in this book.
It was a good book but Bitterblue and Giddon seemed weird and out of character from the other books. It was much more like Jane, Unlimited than a Graceling book.
adventurous
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Dispersing the character POV diluted some of the character development IMO. This is a solid contribution but not as good as the first three.
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
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
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:
Complicated
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Not the best book in the series.
This one is hard to rate. As a Graceling realm novel, I’m not sure I like it. In fact, I found Bitterblue and Giddon to be the weaker parts of this book. But if I can ignore those characters and some of the pairings up for the sake of pairings up we get with even minor Graceling realm characters, I think it’s a good standalone fantasy novel. I do wish the author would’ve just started with new characters (which she did for one of the major POVs) instead of doing some retconning (similar to what she did to Katsa in Bitterblue).
Can we also just tak about the improbability of the map/landscape. Book 1: here are these kingdoms, one of them is trapped by mountains; Book 2: wait there are secretly two more kingdoms on the other side of mountains, and even though one of the original seven was like that these are somehow different and no one knew about them; Book 3: behold, a new continent that is an eastern island at the same latitude of the other continent but somehow with a lot more snow and glaciers.
Also, are we calling 30+ year old men YA love interests now??
Recommend for: The story was Legend of Korra with a dash of Atlantis and more snow
Can we also just tak about the improbability of the map/landscape. Book 1: here are these kingdoms, one of them is trapped by mountains; Book 2: wait there are secretly two more kingdoms on the other side of mountains, and even though one of the original seven was like that these are somehow different and no one knew about them; Book 3: behold, a new continent that is an eastern island at the same latitude of the other continent but somehow with a lot more snow and glaciers.
Also, are we calling 30+ year old men YA love interests now??
Recommend for: The story was Legend of Korra with a dash of Atlantis and more snow
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
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:
No