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A review by majaingrid
Darksoul by Anna Stephens
4.0
2020 reread
3,5....maybe even 4 stars (because blood was flowing and that makes me happy)
This book starts shortly after Godblind ended. The whole book is basically about the siege of Rilpor so it's battles galore. And death galore, as well as torture, blood and gore galore. If you all thought Janis getting a nail hammered through his balls to his asshole in Godblind was bad? Hon, you only just seen the beginning. Though that particular scene was just so *chef's kiss*
Lol, okay, back to the plot. It's the siege of Rilporin. As stated in my first review, it feels like it dragged a little.
I also still feel it's too many characters. The short chapters and constant POV changes makes it jumpy and drags you out of the character's story. It's especially annoying when you get a chunk of chapters from characters you enjoy following and you in there deep and feeling. Then you get thrown into a chunk of chapters from characters you don't enjoy following and you can't care less about their story. It takes you out of the book. Dom and Crys are still my faves. And I gotta add Tara and Gilda too. Should have done that already in my review for Godblind. Tara is badass and won't take anyone's bullshit and will chop off your dick. And my brave, precious, will-sass-dark-high-priestesses-any day.
Also quite a few characters died that I had completely forgot died in this book. Some made me sad, some made me happy. Though there's a slight issue of bringing back the dead to life at one point, and I don't fucking care how sad and heartbroken a character death makes me. LET THE DEAD STAY DEAD.
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2018
Actual rating 3,5 stars.
I thought that, due to my issues with the first book, I would struggle a lot with this one. But it actually went really easy. I still had some issues getting into it, should have reread the first book to freshen up my memory on the plot and all. the. characters. Had lot of problems remembering who everyone was at first. But this one was less "fragmenty" as I remember the first book being. The book is basically the siege of Rilporin, which made it feel like the plot dragged a little. On the other side, it was never not anything happening.
This book could have been a solid 4 star if it was either longer - as it is, it's 10 characters fighting go get page time on less than 400 pages, or if it was half the amount of character PoVs. That would have helped giving the book more depth if we followed fewer characters but each got more space in the book.
For book three I'll have to remember to reread the two first books because I can for real not remember much at all from Godblind.
3,5....maybe even 4 stars (because blood was flowing and that makes me happy)
This book starts shortly after Godblind ended. The whole book is basically about the siege of Rilpor so it's battles galore. And death galore, as well as torture, blood and gore galore. If you all thought Janis getting a nail hammered through his balls to his asshole in Godblind was bad? Hon, you only just seen the beginning. Though that particular scene was just so *chef's kiss*
Lol, okay, back to the plot. It's the siege of Rilporin. As stated in my first review, it feels like it dragged a little.
I also still feel it's too many characters. The short chapters and constant POV changes makes it jumpy and drags you out of the character's story. It's especially annoying when you get a chunk of chapters from characters you enjoy following and you in there deep and feeling. Then you get thrown into a chunk of chapters from characters you don't enjoy following and you can't care less about their story. It takes you out of the book. Dom and Crys are still my faves. And I gotta add Tara and Gilda too. Should have done that already in my review for Godblind. Tara is badass and won't take anyone's bullshit and will chop off your dick. And my brave, precious, will-sass-dark-high-priestesses-any day.
Also quite a few characters died that I had completely forgot died in this book. Some made me sad, some made me happy. Though there's a slight issue of bringing back the dead to life at one point, and I don't fucking care how sad and heartbroken a character death makes me. LET THE DEAD STAY DEAD.
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2018
Actual rating 3,5 stars.
I thought that, due to my issues with the first book, I would struggle a lot with this one. But it actually went really easy. I still had some issues getting into it, should have reread the first book to freshen up my memory on the plot and all. the. characters. Had lot of problems remembering who everyone was at first. But this one was less "fragmenty" as I remember the first book being. The book is basically the siege of Rilporin, which made it feel like the plot dragged a little. On the other side, it was never not anything happening.
This book could have been a solid 4 star if it was either longer - as it is, it's 10 characters fighting go get page time on less than 400 pages, or if it was half the amount of character PoVs. That would have helped giving the book more depth if we followed fewer characters but each got more space in the book.
For book three I'll have to remember to reread the two first books because I can for real not remember much at all from Godblind.