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A Song of Legends Lost
by M.H. Ayinde
I was really torn on how to rate this, because this is a good book, but I don’t know if I was in quite the right headspace to fully appreciate it. I do want to keep reading the series because the whole concept is really intriguing however I don’t think the writing style quite agreed with me.
This is a multi perspective epic fantasy, that has so much going on and so many levels to it, we have both grand wars and slum turf wars, all with and undercurrent of ancestral magic. There are a lot of perspectives in here, six main perspectives and 4 more across the prologue and epilogue, and I only liked 2.5 of them. My favourite perspective was Temi (who the whole summary was about and was criminally under portrayed) which was rough because we have a 350 page gap between her perspectives and she’s not in part 2 or 3, and I would have appreciated here having the odd chapter sprinkled in to break up the heavier (?) narrative. I also enjoyed Runt’s perspective especially as everything began to come together.
I don’t think the world building was particularly well established, and I think that this is probably why I would enjoy it more on a reread. This is because, for me, there is a difference between learning things along with the character, and never having the baseline of knowledge established in the first place. There was 8 pages of glossary at the very beginning, which u do find really off putting, I like to have it in there, but I think having at the end is a bit more reassuring, because to start by having to define everything suggests that it won’t be explained in the narrative (which a lot of it wasn’t) and that you will have to consistently double back.
This is a multi perspective epic fantasy, that has so much going on and so many levels to it, we have both grand wars and slum turf wars, all with and undercurrent of ancestral magic. There are a lot of perspectives in here, six main perspectives and 4 more across the prologue and epilogue, and I only liked 2.5 of them. My favourite perspective was Temi (who the whole summary was about and was criminally under portrayed) which was rough because we have a 350 page gap between her perspectives and she’s not in part 2 or 3, and I would have appreciated here having the odd chapter sprinkled in to break up the heavier (?) narrative. I also enjoyed Runt’s perspective especially as everything began to come together.
I don’t think the world building was particularly well established, and I think that this is probably why I would enjoy it more on a reread. This is because, for me, there is a difference between learning things along with the character, and never having the baseline of knowledge established in the first place. There was 8 pages of glossary at the very beginning, which u do find really off putting, I like to have it in there, but I think having at the end is a bit more reassuring, because to start by having to define everything suggests that it won’t be explained in the narrative (which a lot of it wasn’t) and that you will have to consistently double back.