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A review by claire_loves_books
Bloodring by Faith Hunter
2.0
This was a really frustrating book. The magic in it was trippy and didn't really make sense. Beyond saying Thorn got her power from stones they wasn't much explanation. She quotes from scripture but it's not really explained- the whole religious aspect of this book doesn't make a huge amount of sense. The things that she does with magic are really hard to understand/visualise
Thorn is really flippant about using magic, she's supposedly terrified of being caught out and executed but she doesn't think much about when she uses it- she repeatedly makes what she admits are stupid mistakes do magic at the wrong time/in the wrong way. She knows that she doesn't have the skill to use a spell- she never bothered to do the basic foundation section in her book, she just uses the odd complicated spell that she doesn't understand, guessing and hoping that it will work.
I don't understand the darkness- is it an entity (at times it's referred to as the Darkness while other times dark seems to be used instead of evil).
I wasn't a fan of the mage heat thing- I'm so bored of female characters being defined by their sexuality. She spent so much of the book either being turned on by the mage heat, thinking about the mage heat or avoiding the mage heat.
Most the characters were pretty bland- and the few with personalities seemed to be arbitrarily unpleasant or stupid.
You'll notice I haven't mentioned the plot so far that's because it was kind of all over the place- I'm still not sure what the whole point of the book was, it felt like there was lots of dead weight plot lines that could have been lost.
Spoiler
An amethyst ship the size of a football pitch with eyes- what?Thorn is really flippant about using magic, she's supposedly terrified of being caught out and executed but she doesn't think much about when she uses it- she repeatedly makes what she admits are stupid mistakes do magic at the wrong time/in the wrong way. She knows that she doesn't have the skill to use a spell- she never bothered to do the basic foundation section in her book, she just uses the odd complicated spell that she doesn't understand, guessing and hoping that it will work.
I don't understand the darkness- is it an entity (at times it's referred to as the Darkness while other times dark seems to be used instead of evil).
I wasn't a fan of the mage heat thing- I'm so bored of female characters being defined by their sexuality. She spent so much of the book either being turned on by the mage heat, thinking about the mage heat or avoiding the mage heat.
Most the characters were pretty bland- and the few with personalities seemed to be arbitrarily unpleasant or stupid.
Spoiler
Ciana thinking demonspawn are "way cool" was just so annoying, there's nothing mentioned about her being under their control in any way so I'm assuming she's just the sort of person who thinks that evil beings who've kidnapped her father could come under the category of cool.You'll notice I haven't mentioned the plot so far that's because it was kind of all over the place- I'm still not sure what the whole point of the book was, it felt like there was lots of dead weight plot lines that could have been lost.