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A review by tcgarback
Beautiful Redemption by Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
⭐️⭐️
Personal Score: C
Critical Score: C-
Sadly we’ve ended this series on a low note. Beautiful Redemption milks the most contrived plot point of the whole series—Ethan’s death—for the entire book, to the point where volume four is just the characters trying to get back to where we left off at the end of the last book.
There are some fun moments in here, mainly in the last 100 pages, but the rest of it was so boring and ridiculous that I had to skim.
So much for waiting years to finally get around to reading this book.
Also, I don’t like how Amma’s character is handled. More than ever, she feels like the “good minority” trope, where her whole life revolves around sacrificing herself for white people. Meanwhile, we never even meet her family members or see her interact with them. To have her kill herself at the end of this book for Ethan, when that doesn’t even seem to make any sense in the context of Ethan successfully destroying the Caster Chronicles page, feels so belittling of her character.
Also, the whole Abraham conquest for evil plotline is forgotten about until halfway through, where it’s resolved like some mere side-plot instead of what felt like the whole series was building up to.
I just feel like the authors really lost the plot with this one.
Also, it was so depressing reading a book entirely about death and grieving, especially when I don’t believe in an afterlife. So this volume just feels particularly immature and off-putting.
I’m really sad to finish this series on such a bad book, but I’ve got to be honest.
At least now I can say that, after years of procrastinating, I’ve finally finished the series.
Personal Score: C
Critical Score: C-
Sadly we’ve ended this series on a low note. Beautiful Redemption milks the most contrived plot point of the whole series—Ethan’s death—for the entire book, to the point where volume four is just the characters trying to get back to where we left off at the end of the last book.
There are some fun moments in here, mainly in the last 100 pages, but the rest of it was so boring and ridiculous that I had to skim.
So much for waiting years to finally get around to reading this book.
Also, I don’t like how Amma’s character is handled. More than ever, she feels like the “good minority” trope, where her whole life revolves around sacrificing herself for white people. Meanwhile, we never even meet her family members or see her interact with them. To have her kill herself at the end of this book for Ethan, when that doesn’t even seem to make any sense in the context of Ethan successfully destroying the Caster Chronicles page, feels so belittling of her character.
Also, the whole Abraham conquest for evil plotline is forgotten about until halfway through, where it’s resolved like some mere side-plot instead of what felt like the whole series was building up to.
I just feel like the authors really lost the plot with this one.
Also, it was so depressing reading a book entirely about death and grieving, especially when I don’t believe in an afterlife. So this volume just feels particularly immature and off-putting.
I’m really sad to finish this series on such a bad book, but I’ve got to be honest.
At least now I can say that, after years of procrastinating, I’ve finally finished the series.