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A review by cypherfairy
Sons of Destiny by Darren Shan
4.0
book 12! we did it!
this is a great conclusion to the saga, but it does not erase the fact that i grew VERY bored with this story around book 5 or 6 (i dont remember which one it was since there were so many!)
to me, the first arc (first 3 books) were the most interesting, and then it all got a bit too long. there were a lot of characters, but very few i actually cared about (darren was an ok protagonist but never that interesting); i would say that my favorites were mr crepsley (i feel like thats a pretty common one among readers of this saga) and steve. steve might seem like a strange pick but i felt like he was the most fleshed out character of the bunch, and at the end of the day i do love me a weird tortured villain. i will also point out that there are definitely not enough female characters
the writing was good, at times great, but mostly just good. i appreciated the way the author set up and planned everything though!
i cant help but wonder what it would have been like to read these as a child, though i dont think they were ever translated in italian, which is my mother tongue. im sure the experience of reading this story wouldnt have been the same and i might have appreciated some aspects of it more as a child. but im still glad i read it!
this is a great conclusion to the saga, but it does not erase the fact that i grew VERY bored with this story around book 5 or 6 (i dont remember which one it was since there were so many!)
to me, the first arc (first 3 books) were the most interesting, and then it all got a bit too long. there were a lot of characters, but very few i actually cared about (darren was an ok protagonist but never that interesting); i would say that my favorites were mr crepsley (i feel like thats a pretty common one among readers of this saga) and steve. steve might seem like a strange pick but i felt like he was the most fleshed out character of the bunch, and at the end of the day i do love me a weird tortured villain. i will also point out that there are definitely not enough female characters
the writing was good, at times great, but mostly just good. i appreciated the way the author set up and planned everything though!
i cant help but wonder what it would have been like to read these as a child, though i dont think they were ever translated in italian, which is my mother tongue. im sure the experience of reading this story wouldnt have been the same and i might have appreciated some aspects of it more as a child. but im still glad i read it!