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chasinggrace 's review for:
The Song Rising
by Samantha Shannon
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The best book in this series by far. However - that does not mean it does not have its faults.
First of all: for an “author’s preferred text,” this was riddled with grammatical errors. Missing punctuation was rampant, there were repeated lines, missed indentations…I was floored by the lack of fine tuned editing, and disappointed for the author. Imagine going through a whole reprint a decade after publishing a book, just for there to be at least a dozen editing errors. Anyway.
Paige fucking infuriated me throughout this book. For the first 150 pages, I was BEGGING anyone else to be the FMC. Her decision-making was asinine, her communication was horrendous, and being inside her brain was miserable. Did she redeem herself by the end? Yes, and thank God, or else I don’t know if I could continue with this series.
And don’t even get me fucking started on the Paige/Warden dynamic in this book. I wanted to throw this novel off a cliff every time they interacted.
The political intrigue reached its peak in this story. I loved following the gang as they traversed Great Britain, and I’m truly excited to follow “Flora” to France.
First of all: for an “author’s preferred text,” this was riddled with grammatical errors. Missing punctuation was rampant, there were repeated lines, missed indentations…I was floored by the lack of fine tuned editing, and disappointed for the author. Imagine going through a whole reprint a decade after publishing a book, just for there to be at least a dozen editing errors. Anyway.
Paige fucking infuriated me throughout this book. For the first 150 pages, I was BEGGING anyone else to be the FMC. Her decision-making was asinine, her communication was horrendous, and being inside her brain was miserable. Did she redeem herself by the end? Yes, and thank God, or else I don’t know if I could continue with this series.
And don’t even get me fucking started on the Paige/Warden dynamic in this book. I wanted to throw this novel off a cliff every time they interacted.
The political intrigue reached its peak in this story. I loved following the gang as they traversed Great Britain, and I’m truly excited to follow “Flora” to France.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism