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ginawankenobi 's review for:
Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff
THIS. BOOK. I’m short, I loved it. Here’s the long version, point by point:
- Oh, the Arya Stark parallels! Her fierce need for vengeance against her family’s killers, the list she keeps of those who’ve wronged her...and yet she’s completely different as well.
- The tone! I absolutely loved the writing style & the footnotes. Narrator’s voice is A+
- World building is A+ as well! I became completely immersed in this world & loved learning more and more about it. They even have their own language, slang, plus history and mythology, which made it feel so much more authentic.
- Even when things seemed or were predictable, the story still managed to surprise me & not cross over into the land of cliche trope-ism.
- Spiderkiller is everything Severus Snape should have been. Everyone is unique & well-written, even the insufferable Jessamine. There are several acolytes we don’t really hear about or spend much (if any) time with until they die, but the story also can’t focus on 50 characters, so I understand it. Some needed to be handled this way & I appreciated that the author didn’t try to do too much. It allowed more time for better fleshed out main characters.
- Mia is never presented as being invincible or unbeatable. She has some natural talents, but she also trained heavily, and there were still areas where she was under par. She had to work hard and make mistakes in order to better herself.
- “The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.”
- I usually do NOT care for romantic plot lines, but Mia’s relationship with Tric was well handled, and I wound up really loving it (and both of them, together and individually). Even the sex scenes were done to advance the plot & further the character development, rather than being thrown in just for the sake of having a sex scene.
- The exploration of the line between humanity & monstrousness was well done. Mia learns how to distinguish between the two, Justice vs. needless death, & that even when death is deserved, it’s still a complex subject.
- I guessed some of the major plot points pretty early on, but dismissed them the further in I read. Then, even when my predictions came to fruition, I was still caught completely off guard. Well played, Jay Kristoff. Well played.
- Oh, the Arya Stark parallels! Her fierce need for vengeance against her family’s killers, the list she keeps of those who’ve wronged her...and yet she’s completely different as well.
- The tone! I absolutely loved the writing style & the footnotes. Narrator’s voice is A+
- World building is A+ as well! I became completely immersed in this world & loved learning more and more about it. They even have their own language, slang, plus history and mythology, which made it feel so much more authentic.
- Even when things seemed or were predictable, the story still managed to surprise me & not cross over into the land of cliche trope-ism.
- Spiderkiller is everything Severus Snape should have been. Everyone is unique & well-written, even the insufferable Jessamine. There are several acolytes we don’t really hear about or spend much (if any) time with until they die, but the story also can’t focus on 50 characters, so I understand it. Some needed to be handled this way & I appreciated that the author didn’t try to do too much. It allowed more time for better fleshed out main characters.
- Mia is never presented as being invincible or unbeatable. She has some natural talents, but she also trained heavily, and there were still areas where she was under par. She had to work hard and make mistakes in order to better herself.
- “The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.”
- I usually do NOT care for romantic plot lines, but Mia’s relationship with Tric was well handled, and I wound up really loving it (and both of them, together and individually). Even the sex scenes were done to advance the plot & further the character development, rather than being thrown in just for the sake of having a sex scene.
- The exploration of the line between humanity & monstrousness was well done. Mia learns how to distinguish between the two, Justice vs. needless death, & that even when death is deserved, it’s still a complex subject.
- I guessed some of the major plot points pretty early on, but dismissed them the further in I read. Then, even when my predictions came to fruition, I was still caught completely off guard. Well played, Jay Kristoff. Well played.