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pages_with_panda 's review for:
Rise of Empire
by Michael J. Sullivan
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Book THREE:
This book had a much slower pace, and a LOT more politics. The first books had a nice adventure theme to them while this one has a lot more history and politics and dialogue...Which made it drag a bit.
Some interesting character development between the duo a lot of depth to the side characters. I was in love with Arista and loved how she was starting to hone her magic.
We get to see more mysterious prophecies and riddles a lot of foreshadowing which I LOVE. So YAY!
Thrace was also another favorite character...I love her so much and I cried when she cried!!
Honestly, you can tell the author got his inspiration from TV shows because every chapter or scene feels like something I would be watching. Things were being revealed to the reader, as they’re being revealed to the other characters and I LOVED that.
BOOK 4:
In this book we get a pirate story which was exciting. You can tell the author did his research on terminology for boats because I had very little idea what was what!
Another story that felt a little slow....They’re stuck on the boat for quite a while before they reach their destination and there's a big twist that was kind of expected and I'm surprised they didn't figure it out sooner? At least Royce could've figured this out sooner.
I really liked that the characters are all interconnected. It was a bit hard to remember names and I wouldn’t have been able to without my Kindle’s X-ray feature and searching pasts texts, but there's also a glossary and that helped a lot. The world building is so good in this series, I love getting lost in it.
Ultimately: slower than the past stories, this one seemed to drag. Left the action towards the end but didn’t resolve anything and left with a huge cliffhanger, unlike the past stories that seemed to wrap-up things before moving on.
816 pages.
(⚠️Content Warnings;
Graphic: violence, blood , classism, prejudice, grief,
Moderate: ptsd, death of child, death of a parent, grief
Minor: sexual assault, Injury, fire injury, genocide, ableism,
This book had a much slower pace, and a LOT more politics. The first books had a nice adventure theme to them while this one has a lot more history and politics and dialogue...Which made it drag a bit.
Some interesting character development between the duo a lot of depth to the side characters. I was in love with Arista and loved how she was starting to hone her magic.
We get to see more mysterious prophecies and riddles a lot of foreshadowing which I LOVE. So YAY!
Thrace was also another favorite character...I love her so much and I cried when she cried!!
Honestly, you can tell the author got his inspiration from TV shows because every chapter or scene feels like something I would be watching. Things were being revealed to the reader, as they’re being revealed to the other characters and I LOVED that.
BOOK 4:
In this book we get a pirate story which was exciting. You can tell the author did his research on terminology for boats because I had very little idea what was what!
Another story that felt a little slow....They’re stuck on the boat for quite a while before they reach their destination and there's a big twist that was kind of expected and I'm surprised they didn't figure it out sooner? At least Royce could've figured this out sooner.
I really liked that the characters are all interconnected. It was a bit hard to remember names and I wouldn’t have been able to without my Kindle’s X-ray feature and searching pasts texts, but there's also a glossary and that helped a lot. The world building is so good in this series, I love getting lost in it.
Ultimately: slower than the past stories, this one seemed to drag. Left the action towards the end but didn’t resolve anything and left with a huge cliffhanger, unlike the past stories that seemed to wrap-up things before moving on.
816 pages.
(⚠️Content Warnings;
Graphic: violence, blood , classism, prejudice, grief,
Moderate: ptsd, death of child, death of a parent, grief
Minor: sexual assault, Injury, fire injury, genocide, ableism,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Grief, Classism
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Genocide, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury