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3.88 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf wasn't as exciting as I expected.
Characters could've been further explored, and some dynamics between them felt weird or forced, even more when compared to Arcane (universe the book is set in).
The plot was very straightforward, no big twists and turns. It felt kinda like a video game where you go new places, defeat the miniboss and complete the mission. Repeat until you defeat the actual big boss.
The worldbuilding really fell flat for me. I'm not the biggest League of Legends fan, but Runeterra has always interested me and I feel the book added next to nothing to the lore, this could've been in a "generic Empire" and the book would be the same.
The book isn't bad, it's just boring at some parts. I would only recommend it if you're a big Arcane or LoL fan.
adventurous dark sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Sadly, not as good as I had hoped it would be. It was my hope that I would understand Ambessa's motivation after reading this, but I didn't. It succeeds at making me care about side characters more, especially Mel, Kino and Rell. I'd read a sequel about Rell. Arcane, I miss you so much. 😭
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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
dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shannon_smith_27's review

4.0
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

This felt off to me. While I'm not expecting medieval political intrigue and I adored the arcane series but this feels flat. From what I have seen from other users who were being honest is that, All Ambessa does go to one location fight and then go to a 2nd location and fight again and the cycle repeats. And what's unfortunate is that the author was only able to watch 2 or 3 episodes of the arcane 2nd season. This doesn't help flesh the characters at all.  Safe to say I'll be cautious with books based League of Legends/Arcane