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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Really loved this series. The only problem I have...this didn't feel like the last book, even though it says it is. Too many unanswered plot points.
The reason for why everything happened at Thorn hill was one of the only things I was interested in and the answer was disappointing and ridiculous. Why would a man who is a father (has a child he loves) be willing to kill an ENTIRE village of people including children because of his wife. No that's just not a good enough reason for me. The part that I'm struggling with is that in the first book and in his memory in this book he was made to seem like a caring father and decent person from Emma's perspective just so he wouldn't seem like the culprit to the reader so it could be a shocking OHMYGODNO twist. Millions of lives and a decades worth of suffering because his wife cheated on him. That's it that is the ONLY reason these people are dead/dying. That's not a plot twist that is a rip off. I'm sorry that this is so negative but the Heir series is my all time favorite story and this doesn't even come close.
I'm a little between 3 and 4 stars for this book.... Goodreads doesn't do a 3.5, and I am stubborn and will only use their scale. I liked the book before this much better as it got me to care about the two main characters, Emma and Jonah. This one though.... it seemed to try to hard to force some drama on them, both on their relationship and on the individual characters themselves. I was still interested to see what happens and how their story ends, but there seemed to just be a lot of fluff drama. The book dragged on for a bit somewhere for the middle but finally picked up again when it was about 3/4 of the way though or so.
The plot did get a little confusing towards the end as well. I'm not quite sure what happens to the shades (zombies) at the end, but maybe I breezed through it too fast as I was just trying to finish it before bed.
The book does have an ending but it didn't leave me quite satisfied. Mostly satisfied, but not fully. I was under the impression that this was the final book in the series, but who knows as this series initially started as a stand alone novel, then released a companion book, then was expanded to a trilogy, and then two more books were ordered by popular demand.
I still like these last two more than the first three books, but popular opinion seems to be the reverse. I just thought these characters, Jonah and Emma, were more interesting than the ones from the original trilogy, so I liked them more. The plot was probably better in the first 3 books though. The overall plot line for this was just weird.
Overall I am leaning more towards 3 stars, rounding down, as I appear to have written more of a negative review. It's still really good, and you should finish if you read the last book. =)
The plot did get a little confusing towards the end as well. I'm not quite sure what happens to the shades (zombies) at the end, but maybe I breezed through it too fast as I was just trying to finish it before bed.
The book does have an ending but it didn't leave me quite satisfied. Mostly satisfied, but not fully. I was under the impression that this was the final book in the series, but who knows as this series initially started as a stand alone novel, then released a companion book, then was expanded to a trilogy, and then two more books were ordered by popular demand.
I still like these last two more than the first three books, but popular opinion seems to be the reverse. I just thought these characters, Jonah and Emma, were more interesting than the ones from the original trilogy, so I liked them more. The plot was probably better in the first 3 books though. The overall plot line for this was just weird.
Overall I am leaning more towards 3 stars, rounding down, as I appear to have written more of a negative review. It's still really good, and you should finish if you read the last book. =)
I liked the book purely for the reasons why I liked the other four... I enjoy Chima's writing style for the most part, with her unique tone and perspective, and for the most part I love the world building she does. And coming as someone who read the first four and was excited for the explanations and closure, I liked the book enough to rate it four stars, solely for the thrill of the read. But honestly, it felt detached from the first three. Leesha was brought back as a character and I had a difficult time pinning her attitude and character down. I was unhappy with some of the solutions/answers/closure/whatever given, like maybe she just got to the end of her word count and tied the knots shut as neatly as she could. And also, there were points that my suspension of disbelief got fully plucked from the immersive experience of reading - like when I realized that certain hearings or committees or anyone making decisions was a room full of teenagers. I get it, it's YA fiction, but there were some aspects that I just had to go "wait.... what??" Anyway. Emma got hers, and so did most of the other characters the reader could empathize with, and the convenient (yet sad) deaths went to the morally ambiguous ones ("that's justice," said one person in the finale of the book), which clearly made it predictable and not particularly nail-biting, but still satisfying.