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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
slow-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
It's been awhile since a book made me feel so much for the characters!!!
I can't even think straight right now!!
This is a good book, wait, nooo this is an amazing book... Do yourself a favor
and go read this book NOWWW!!
My feels right now are a mess!
I can't even think straight right now!!
This is a good book, wait, nooo this is an amazing book... Do yourself a favor
and go read this book NOWWW!!
My feels right now are a mess!
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Distractingly slipshod writing and I still don't believe there's anything behind the politics, but I'm a sucker for underdogs and stubborn idiots.
What an amazing read. It capture my attention almost the entire story. The characters were awesome. The main character, Ryand, is such a strong female lead. And the plot twist. Wow, that was quite something. It have my emotions going all over the place. This is a series I will definitely continue.
Ich mochte das erste echt sehr. Aber die Protagonistin wurde hier zu „Ich bin ja so krass, habe aber gar keine Persönlichkeit“
This book took everything that was interesting of the first and killed it.
I think it wanted to be a romance novel, but it failed oh so badly.
But I’ll go in order.
The first book was enjoyable. It had its fault, but being the first in a saga I could get over them and enjoy the plot and the character, hoping that the more someone writes, the better they get at it.
This obviously wasn’t the case.
First of all this book completely lacks of a plot. Sometimes we have an illusion that there might be an horizontal plot, but everything vanishes in favor of the romantic triangle. Every single trace of plot we might see is there just to make us suffer Ryiah pining over two boys. As soon as the author shows us what she wanted about the triangle, every trace of plot goes forgotten.
And I get it, the plot should be there just to interest the reader in picking up the book, but its main goal is to serve the development of the main characters and their relationship! Again, the problem is this doesn’t happen. Ryiah starts at a– let’s say level 1? in the first book (she’s an ambitious and focused young woman, with her flaws but a clear goal in mind) and during the sequel develops to a level that moves between a level 0 to a -2. At some point toward the end she looked like she might get to be the character for the first book again, but time a couple of pages and she was again the childish, selfish, immature, reckless and self-centered character she had been the whole book. Not one she tried to change. Not once the other character said anything to her about her behavior. (Except for Priscilla. And I’m honestly shocked to say that she was the best character in the whole book???? Yeah, I can’t believe it either.)
Regarding the other characters, they— well, don’t exist. They show up only if they have to say something (usually stupid) but are quite marginal in the whole four years – except when the author pretends that they had a strong bong with Ryah, even if we didn’t see them interact once .
AH! How could I forget how everything is so nonsense?
The first book was all about Ryiah wanting to prove herself to everyone who doubted her ability, because she wanted to be the best , and yet here she doesn’t even try until the very end, end every time someone says that they believe in her, she dismisses them because she is mediocre and not good enough?
She keeps contradicting herself: never betray a friend = at least a betrayal per year, she’s not reckless = does thing out of spite or just to throw tantrums, she’s rational = again acts on impulses and thinks only after.
Stuffs happen just at the most convenient time.
But my favorite: there is a super secret mission ordered by the crown, an apprentice is chosen to join the mission after ONE performance, the key part of the plan revolves around the apprentice chosen at random (because of their specific physical characteristics).
(And, honestly, no one seems to trust Ryiah –since she’s so impulsive and unpredictable– but she ends always to be the key role of every plan or situation. Like???? What???)
And!!! Can we talk about the violence in this book? Because is non existent. And– that’s not even a problem, to be honest, if it wasn’t that the characters are mages trainer for war. We had a whole first book that went on and on on how the daily drills were made to prepare them for fighting and were killing the kids, but every time some one gets even just a paper cut they scream . (And, honestly, half of the faction is made up of pain casters ). Four cut with an axe are considered an unbearable torture. (The real torture is being force to read this book till the end.) Slapping a child is considered being heartless. Killing someone makes the person a monster. (Again– they are war mages , people trained to be warriors – not soldiers, as they keep repeating in the first installment.)
At the end the book can be summarized as: Ryiah suddenly becomes brainless and keeps poking at FirstGuy for him to say that he cares about her but denying that she cares about him and throwing herself to SeconGuy, that she wants to love but can’t, since she has suppressed feeling for FirstGuy.
Everyone doesn’t know got to have basic human communication.
Sometimes we get a bit of action, but mostly it’s skipping fast forward to the scenes were Ryiah is pining about one of the two guys.
So, yeah. This book may be for you just if you hate yourself or love really bad drama and bad written love triangles.
Honestly, don’t waste your time.
I think it wanted to be a romance novel, but it failed oh so badly.
But I’ll go in order.
The first book was enjoyable. It had its fault, but being the first in a saga I could get over them and enjoy the plot and the character, hoping that the more someone writes, the better they get at it.
This obviously wasn’t the case.
First of all this book completely lacks of a plot. Sometimes we have an illusion that there might be an horizontal plot, but everything vanishes in favor of the romantic triangle. Every single trace of plot we might see is there just to make us suffer Ryiah pining over two boys. As soon as the author shows us what she wanted about the triangle, every trace of plot goes forgotten.
And I get it, the plot should be there just to interest the reader in picking up the book, but its main goal is to serve the development of the main characters and their relationship! Again, the problem is this doesn’t happen. Ryiah starts at a– let’s say level 1? in the first book (she’s an ambitious and focused young woman, with her flaws but a clear goal in mind) and during the sequel develops to a level that moves between a level 0 to a -2. At some point toward the end she looked like she might get to be the character for the first book again, but time a couple of pages and she was again the childish, selfish, immature, reckless and self-centered character she had been the whole book. Not one she tried to change. Not once the other character said anything to her about her behavior. (Except for Priscilla. And I’m honestly shocked to say that she was the best character in the whole book???? Yeah, I can’t believe it either.)
Regarding the other characters, they— well, don’t exist. They show up only if they have to say something (usually stupid) but are quite marginal in the whole four years – except when the author pretends that they had a strong bong with Ryah, even if we didn’t see them interact once .
AH! How could I forget how everything is so nonsense?
The first book was all about Ryiah wanting to prove herself to everyone who doubted her ability, because she wanted to be the best , and yet here she doesn’t even try until the very end, end every time someone says that they believe in her, she dismisses them because she is mediocre and not good enough?
She keeps contradicting herself: never betray a friend = at least a betrayal per year, she’s not reckless = does thing out of spite or just to throw tantrums, she’s rational = again acts on impulses and thinks only after.
Stuffs happen just at the most convenient time.
But my favorite: there is a super secret mission ordered by the crown, an apprentice is chosen to join the mission after ONE performance, the key part of the plan revolves around the apprentice chosen at random (because of their specific physical characteristics).
(And, honestly, no one seems to trust Ryiah –since she’s so impulsive and unpredictable– but she ends always to be the key role of every plan or situation. Like???? What???)
And!!! Can we talk about the violence in this book? Because is non existent. And– that’s not even a problem, to be honest, if it wasn’t that the characters are mages trainer for war. We had a whole first book that went on and on on how the daily drills were made to prepare them for fighting and were killing the kids, but every time some one gets even just a paper cut they scream . (And, honestly, half of the faction is made up of pain casters ). Four cut with an axe are considered an unbearable torture. (The real torture is being force to read this book till the end.) Slapping a child is considered being heartless. Killing someone makes the person a monster. (Again– they are war mages , people trained to be warriors – not soldiers, as they keep repeating in the first installment.)
At the end the book can be summarized as: Ryiah suddenly becomes brainless and keeps poking at FirstGuy for him to say that he cares about her but denying that she cares about him and throwing herself to SeconGuy, that she wants to love but can’t, since she has suppressed feeling for FirstGuy.
Everyone doesn’t know got to have basic human communication.
Sometimes we get a bit of action, but mostly it’s skipping fast forward to the scenes were Ryiah is pining about one of the two guys.
So, yeah. This book may be for you just if you hate yourself or love really bad drama and bad written love triangles.
Honestly, don’t waste your time.