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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
This is one of those books where I wish I could choose 2.5 stars.
While it's hard to put down, and does actually pay off at the end, I felt like the story was a bit too repetitive, and kind of assumed I would be too stupid to understand each point the author wanted to make. I often found myself thinking: "I get it! Get on with it already!"
The idea behind the story was really cool, but ideas that the characters had about good and evil (and their origins) made them feel like they had tunnel vision. But, to be fair, the bad guys were the "pure evil" brand of bad guy. So that tunnel vision works a bit.
Over all, I don't think I'd recommend it to many people unless they were specifically the author's demographic. The execution of the story worked overall, even if I personally wasn't satisfied.
Also (because of what happens in this book) I'm a bit afraid to be labeled as a hater because of how bad book reviews were vilified in the story :P
While it's hard to put down, and does actually pay off at the end, I felt like the story was a bit too repetitive, and kind of assumed I would be too stupid to understand each point the author wanted to make. I often found myself thinking: "I get it! Get on with it already!"
The idea behind the story was really cool, but ideas that the characters had about good and evil (and their origins) made them feel like they had tunnel vision. But, to be fair, the bad guys were the "pure evil" brand of bad guy. So that tunnel vision works a bit.
Over all, I don't think I'd recommend it to many people unless they were specifically the author's demographic. The execution of the story worked overall, even if I personally wasn't satisfied.
Also (because of what happens in this book) I'm a bit afraid to be labeled as a hater because of how bad book reviews were vilified in the story :P
Borderline unreadable. If it had not been my only audiobook on hand during a lengthy period I would never have finished it. Anyone who has read Goodkind knows his love for long didactic monologues, usually parroting Ayn Rand, but this book pushes the form to new lows. I wouldn't recommend this for even an enthusiastic reader of Goodkind.
Hmm, this is a tough one to review. I liked the premise and characters but the book felt stilted, like it was a short story turned into a novel. It could use a lot more base character development. It's a page turner thriller. The ending was fine and sets up a sequel which I would probably read.
Started good but halfway through it changes from a novel into a non-fiction book disguised by dialogue. There's Person A, the one who knows everything, and Person B, the stand-in for the reader, who asks questions (sometimes dumb ones) that keeps the dialogue infodump moving along. Then it ends with another scary scene but by that time I wasn't as scared, more like waiting for the chick to kick ass with her mad skillz. I gave it 2 stars because I actually read it the wholeway through. ANd I never did get the concept of the nesting thing. I think the author should have chosen a different analogy, because when I hear the word 'nest' I think of bird's nest with cute baby birds chirping. I don't think of serial killers all coming together to track down certain persons with abilities that are a danger to them. I dunno, maybe my brain was drifting after all that infodumping and I wasn't coherent enough by the time he got around to explaining the nesting phenomenon.