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A review by owlsreads
Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
I'm extremely disappointed. Having loved Silver Under Nightfall, I had high expectations for this sequel. Sadly, it seems like everything that made me love the first book was put in the backburner here.
The plot shifted focus from characters to political court schemes. I'm usually a fan of those, but it was such a sharp change of tone from the previous book that I couldn't get into it. That made the pace very slow to me as well and it was a struggle to keep going as nothing seemed to happened and there was little for me to hold on to.
I also wasn't a fan of the introduction of so many new characters. With them, came much additional world-building information that felt out of place in the second book of a duology. There should have been some sort of balance between novels and that didn't exist in any way here.
The romance also suffered because of this. I'm not sure why the relationship between Remy, Xiaodan, and Malekh was reduced to sex. They had so much potential as a throuple and I had so many expectations about how their dynamic would develop here and then... it was all physical. All the time. Very little substance or relationship progression when it came to non-sexual intimacy. Again, a huge disappointment.
The plot shifted focus from characters to political court schemes. I'm usually a fan of those, but it was such a sharp change of tone from the previous book that I couldn't get into it. That made the pace very slow to me as well and it was a struggle to keep going as nothing seemed to happened and there was little for me to hold on to.
I also wasn't a fan of the introduction of so many new characters. With them, came much additional world-building information that felt out of place in the second book of a duology. There should have been some sort of balance between novels and that didn't exist in any way here.
The romance also suffered because of this. I'm not sure why the relationship between Remy, Xiaodan, and Malekh was reduced to sex. They had so much potential as a throuple and I had so many expectations about how their dynamic would develop here and then... it was all physical. All the time. Very little substance or relationship progression when it came to non-sexual intimacy. Again, a huge disappointment.