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A review by obliviousdream
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
5.0
I had planned on giving this book 4 stars. It read like one. Too long, too bloated at times, with a lot of info-dumping in the first 100-150 pages. I don't recall Throne of Glass being like that.
And Bryce just didn't click for me in the beginning.
Then this book had the audacity to make me CRY! I had not physically cried because of a book in ages, and here I was - sobbing. SHAKING! Emotionally devastated.
"My friends are behind me, and I will protect them."
Absolutely. Emotionally. Wrecked.
Am I happy SJM left every revelation for the last 20-ish percent of the book? No. But it's something I've grown to expect from her writing, even if I would've appreciated more hints throughout the book for something that was, in a way, a thriller, wrapped in fantasy.
Why can't we have the revelations in the end of the book set up more properly? I do enjoy a good "villain spilling his evil plan" scene, but if you're keeping your readers in the dark, then, presumably, the MC should be in the dark too. Not figuring shit out off-page and then us, the readers, getting another sort of info dump. :/
While trying to keep this spoiler-free, I'll say some discoveries about Hunt felt very out-of-the-blue, as if just to drive a wedge between the main characters. It felt weird and unnecessary.
Also - alphahole?
And Bryce just didn't click for me in the beginning.
Then this book had the audacity to make me CRY! I had not physically cried because of a book in ages, and here I was - sobbing. SHAKING! Emotionally devastated.
"My friends are behind me, and I will protect them."
Absolutely. Emotionally. Wrecked.
Am I happy SJM left every revelation for the last 20-ish percent of the book? No. But it's something I've grown to expect from her writing, even if I would've appreciated more hints throughout the book for something that was, in a way, a thriller, wrapped in fantasy.
Why can't we have the revelations in the end of the book set up more properly? I do enjoy a good "villain spilling his evil plan" scene, but if you're keeping your readers in the dark, then, presumably, the MC should be in the dark too. Not figuring shit out off-page and then us, the readers, getting another sort of info dump. :/
While trying to keep this spoiler-free, I'll say some discoveries about Hunt felt very out-of-the-blue, as if just to drive a wedge between the main characters. It felt weird and unnecessary.
Also - alphahole?