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A review by kait_mck
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
3.0
Where this book didn’t start out so great for me, I did end up enjoying it, and then I found myself hella confused. While I felt this book had a bit of a slow start for me, I became very invested with the story as it continued, and where the back and forth duel perspective got on my nerves for a little while, my brain began to go with the flow to the point where I wasn’t huffing every chapter. But when we switch solely to third party narration, I admit I was a little ticked off.
I found it very interesting to learn about the same person in two very different stages of life. While Kihrin’s story was in the present, starting off on an auction block and being sold to The Black Brotherhood, being stranded on an island, and becoming the main fascination of a Dragon. Talon’s story was told in the third person when Kihrin was a boy living in the city as a thief and musician, who’s life was very quickly turned upside down when he was marked by a demon prince, his adoptive family was murdered, and he was found to be a long lost member of a noble household.
I was very interested in both of these stories. I found them both to start out mundane and then slowly add more intricate information and more plot twists with every chapter. While I did feel less frustrated about it the constant chapter by chapter story change, it did still make it somewhat difficult to become fully immersed in either narrative.
Also, I love Galen. Love. Him.
Around chapter 60 was the point this book started to lose me. In Kihrin’s story, it very quickly became a huge information dump that was really hard to follow on audio. I found myself slowly losing momentum to finish as I lost my understanding of what was going on. We were meant to take in the information and put the puzzle together as Kihrin did, but I feel like we weren’t given enough background information to be able to do that.
There was just a whole lot of people being reborn and name changing and marriages and children that were only mentioned and glossed over until their pieces needed to be added to the puzzle, and I found myself confused.
When we got towards the end, I liked the storyline of the plan all the way from how to get away from The Old Man, to Kihrin needing to leave the city as an unfortunate repercussion, and in the last 15 chapters, I can honestly say I was brought right back into the story.
I have mixed feelings about this book. I liked the second quarter, and I liked the last quarter. But the first and third just had me either falling asleep or un-situationally frustrated.
All in all, I gave this book 3 stars and I am planning on reading The Name of All Things upon release on October 29th, 2019.
I found it very interesting to learn about the same person in two very different stages of life. While Kihrin’s story was in the present, starting off on an auction block and being sold to The Black Brotherhood, being stranded on an island, and becoming the main fascination of a Dragon. Talon’s story was told in the third person when Kihrin was a boy living in the city as a thief and musician, who’s life was very quickly turned upside down when he was marked by a demon prince, his adoptive family was murdered, and he was found to be a long lost member of a noble household.
I was very interested in both of these stories. I found them both to start out mundane and then slowly add more intricate information and more plot twists with every chapter. While I did feel less frustrated about it the constant chapter by chapter story change, it did still make it somewhat difficult to become fully immersed in either narrative.
Also, I love Galen. Love. Him.
Around chapter 60 was the point this book started to lose me. In Kihrin’s story, it very quickly became a huge information dump that was really hard to follow on audio. I found myself slowly losing momentum to finish as I lost my understanding of what was going on. We were meant to take in the information and put the puzzle together as Kihrin did, but I feel like we weren’t given enough background information to be able to do that.
There was just a whole lot of people being reborn and name changing and marriages and children that were only mentioned and glossed over until their pieces needed to be added to the puzzle, and I found myself confused.
When we got towards the end, I liked the storyline of the plan all the way from how to get away from The Old Man, to Kihrin needing to leave the city as an unfortunate repercussion, and in the last 15 chapters, I can honestly say I was brought right back into the story.
I have mixed feelings about this book. I liked the second quarter, and I liked the last quarter. But the first and third just had me either falling asleep or un-situationally frustrated.
All in all, I gave this book 3 stars and I am planning on reading The Name of All Things upon release on October 29th, 2019.