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A review by kitsbookishcorner
The Orphanage of Gods by Helena Coggan
2.0
This is a story about how humans have condemned all children to live in an orphanage until they are eighteen, they are then tested by the guards of the orphanage to see if their blood is silver, the blood of a God. I f they are a God, they are taken away and if they are human, they are let out into society to live out their lives.
At the start of this book, we follow Hero who is a half-God and Joshua, who is a full God while they are trying to rescue their 'sister' Kestrel, who is human. Kestrel was taken away by the guards as they thought she had the silver blood. I liked Hero's perspective and found this part really tense and the flashbacks interesting and informative in just the right way but then we moved onto two other perspectives throughout the rest of the book and everything seemed to change.
The next part followed Raven, a ten year old girl who lives with about five or six other Gods and one human in a camp. As she is not in the first part of the story, I found she annoyed me slightly and I found I didn't care for her character. It kept getting on my nerves how she was being overprotected one minute and then was supposed to lead them the next, it confused me.
The third perspective is one I won;t name for spoiler reasons but I found this character quite different to how I thought they would be. There was a lot of things happening between the Gods, humans and in the small group that contained Hero and Raven and I found it was all too much for me. I found the perspective of this third person to be a little pointless and I felt that as soon as the next person becomes a main character and we read the scene through them, the actual main characters become secondary people; I felt that it didn't work for me at all.
I liked that each God had their own power or demesne as it was called in the book but I found that was the only interesting thing about it. The book showed a few people's demesne but I feel like they could have shown more of them of used their powers more. I also felt that the book was very scattered for me, I didn't connect with any of the characters and only liked Hero who we didn't really see much of towards the end and I also felt that it wrapped up too quickly and as everyone seemed to be making assumptions about the guards and another character, I didn't know what was going on, for example, one character kept telling everyone they would be safe even though there was no way of knowing they would be and then they were attacked and almost killed multiple times. Overall I am not a fan of this book and found it too confusing unfortunately.
Have you read this book? If so, what did you think ? Come and talk to me about it in the comments
At the start of this book, we follow Hero who is a half-God and Joshua, who is a full God while they are trying to rescue their 'sister' Kestrel, who is human. Kestrel was taken away by the guards as they thought she had the silver blood. I liked Hero's perspective and found this part really tense and the flashbacks interesting and informative in just the right way but then we moved onto two other perspectives throughout the rest of the book and everything seemed to change.
The next part followed Raven, a ten year old girl who lives with about five or six other Gods and one human in a camp. As she is not in the first part of the story, I found she annoyed me slightly and I found I didn't care for her character. It kept getting on my nerves how she was being overprotected one minute and then was supposed to lead them the next, it confused me.
The third perspective is one I won;t name for spoiler reasons but I found this character quite different to how I thought they would be. There was a lot of things happening between the Gods, humans and in the small group that contained Hero and Raven and I found it was all too much for me. I found the perspective of this third person to be a little pointless and I felt that as soon as the next person becomes a main character and we read the scene through them, the actual main characters become secondary people; I felt that it didn't work for me at all.
I liked that each God had their own power or demesne as it was called in the book but I found that was the only interesting thing about it. The book showed a few people's demesne but I feel like they could have shown more of them of used their powers more. I also felt that the book was very scattered for me, I didn't connect with any of the characters and only liked Hero who we didn't really see much of towards the end and I also felt that it wrapped up too quickly and as everyone seemed to be making assumptions about the guards and another character, I didn't know what was going on, for example, one character kept telling everyone they would be safe even though there was no way of knowing they would be and then they were attacked and almost killed multiple times. Overall I am not a fan of this book and found it too confusing unfortunately.
Have you read this book? If so, what did you think ? Come and talk to me about it in the comments