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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
The idea behind the book is interesting. I think the book was well conceived, but poorly executed. The are several scenes which span chapters and are simply information dumps where the side characters deliver all of the plot information to the lead character. The action scenes read well, but they are too few and to far between.
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this book. It definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. The characters are well developed, the plot was engrossing, and the action was all that it needed to be.
I will admit yet I shed a tear or two while reading this book. The author did a marvelous job of making you care for the characters, and of allowing you to feel so much of what they were going through. When the book ended I was left wanting more. I hope that the author might revisit these characters in another book.
While I did receive an Advanced Reader's Copy of this book, I was not required to leave a review. I loved the book so much that I immediately came to review it here as soon as I read the last page. I highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a tense, sometimes a little gory, action-filled thriller with believable characters and a lot of emotion.
I will admit yet I shed a tear or two while reading this book. The author did a marvelous job of making you care for the characters, and of allowing you to feel so much of what they were going through. When the book ended I was left wanting more. I hope that the author might revisit these characters in another book.
While I did receive an Advanced Reader's Copy of this book, I was not required to leave a review. I loved the book so much that I immediately came to review it here as soon as I read the last page. I highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a tense, sometimes a little gory, action-filled thriller with believable characters and a lot of emotion.
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I want to give a big BIG thank you to @skyhorsepub for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is the first Terry Goodkind novel I have read and it is his first venture into thrillers. I know he is a very well known fantasy writer, so I was really excited to see how handles this new genre.
Now there is an element of fantasy in this book, it is just disguised by the words such as evolution and genetics. There are people in this world like Kate that can spot killers by looking into their eyes.
Kate and this ability were my favorite parts of this book. From the beginning, we knew that she was very capable of defending herself. She is a badass. She grew up being able to spot these bad people to some degree. She would get these really strong creepy vibes so from a young age she started taking self-defense classes.
She stumbles upon a crime scene and instead of freaking out she is able to compartmentalize. She is able to put her emotions on pause and focus on learning about her ability, how to use it to help others, or pick up new fighting skills.
I really hope that Goodkind continues to write about her and work within this genre. This is one of the few books that always kept me on my toes. This completely destroyed all my predictions and theories within the first half of the book. I absolutely loved that.
Now there were some elements of the story that I didn’t enjoy. This was very much a tell not show story. Everything Kate learned was because someone else explained it to her. Kate didn’t get to explore a lot on her own.
This story was also very hard to read at times. There were moments that featured extreme violence against women and children. If that is something you have a hard time reading about, this book might not be for you.
But overall, I really enjoyed this book. I give it a B.
This is the first Terry Goodkind novel I have read and it is his first venture into thrillers. I know he is a very well known fantasy writer, so I was really excited to see how handles this new genre.
Now there is an element of fantasy in this book, it is just disguised by the words such as evolution and genetics. There are people in this world like Kate that can spot killers by looking into their eyes.
Kate and this ability were my favorite parts of this book. From the beginning, we knew that she was very capable of defending herself. She is a badass. She grew up being able to spot these bad people to some degree. She would get these really strong creepy vibes so from a young age she started taking self-defense classes.
She stumbles upon a crime scene and instead of freaking out she is able to compartmentalize. She is able to put her emotions on pause and focus on learning about her ability, how to use it to help others, or pick up new fighting skills.
I really hope that Goodkind continues to write about her and work within this genre. This is one of the few books that always kept me on my toes. This completely destroyed all my predictions and theories within the first half of the book. I absolutely loved that.
Now there were some elements of the story that I didn’t enjoy. This was very much a tell not show story. Everything Kate learned was because someone else explained it to her. Kate didn’t get to explore a lot on her own.
This story was also very hard to read at times. There were moments that featured extreme violence against women and children. If that is something you have a hard time reading about, this book might not be for you.
But overall, I really enjoyed this book. I give it a B.
9/10
While it had some slower bits filled with (sometimes needed, sometimes unnecessary, but usually interesting) exposition, there was also plenty of action and tenseness as expected from something in the Thriller genre.
Which is not a genre I usually delve into, admittedly. But if a character has a superhuman ability, chances are I'll be willing to look outside of my...comfort zone, I guess. It's why I finally read Stephen King's Carrie and why I picked up this book.
Nest was entertaining, as food for thought and a story. It also succeeded in capturing my imagination, and was one of those books that I had trouble putting down before finishing.
I don't think I've read any of Terry Goodkind's books before, but (especially since reviews I've read for Nest have mentioned he usually writes fantasy) I'll have to look into more of his work.
While it had some slower bits filled with (sometimes needed, sometimes unnecessary, but usually interesting) exposition, there was also plenty of action and tenseness as expected from something in the Thriller genre.
Which is not a genre I usually delve into, admittedly. But if a character has a superhuman ability, chances are I'll be willing to look outside of my...comfort zone, I guess. It's why I finally read Stephen King's Carrie and why I picked up this book.
Nest was entertaining, as food for thought and a story. It also succeeded in capturing my imagination, and was one of those books that I had trouble putting down before finishing.
I don't think I've read any of Terry Goodkind's books before, but (especially since reviews I've read for Nest have mentioned he usually writes fantasy) I'll have to look into more of his work.
Except for a chunk of really boring crap about 3/4 of the way through, this was a good book and I would love to read a sequel.
The first few chapters are fantastic, then roughly 60% of the book is exposition and 15% is practising fighting. It's a shame, I wish this idea was better executed because the start and the end are genuinely pretty gripping.
I liked the initial chapters and the final chapters where there was actual story development. The middle was bad with it being too expository.
Good storyline, book was pretty much the same as "The Girl in the Moon" which I should not have read first but did not realize was part of a set.
This was a pretty decent read. I was able to read it quickly and enjoyed it for the most part. I think in true Terry Goodkind fashion there were some spots where there was too much detail and too much time spent on little things and technical explanations (though he does a good job of correctly explaining security audits, TOR and the dark web. I think he misses the mark when he gets into the discussion on DNA and evolution) and all the suspense and tension of the ending got left to the last few chapters.
It's a good change of pace from his Sword of Truth series and definitely kept my attention but there were some pretty long stretches without much excitement, tension or suspense and the ending maybe wasn't what I wanted or expected, but I will likely pick up the others in this series/character arch to see what happens next.
It's a good change of pace from his Sword of Truth series and definitely kept my attention but there were some pretty long stretches without much excitement, tension or suspense and the ending maybe wasn't what I wanted or expected, but I will likely pick up the others in this series/character arch to see what happens next.