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The Broken Tower
by Kelly Braffet
3.5 stars
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Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this advanced ebook in exchange for an honest review.
The Broken Tower follows the four characters that we got to know in the first book: Gavin, Elly, Judah, and Theron. But we start to follow a few others as well. I don’t know if it’s because we’re following so many different characters, or if it was just intended to be a more character focused than plot focused story, but I cannot give an accurate summary because literally nothing happened. Basically all of the characters were kidnapped and abused by one group of people or another at some point in this story. Some for a few days and other for most of the book. Judah learned more about her powers, but not really. She figured out on her own how to use her abilities in different ways from what she was taught in the first book, but none of it was explained really at all. Gavin just lets himself get abused and beat for most of the book and weirdly, so did Nate. The only characters that I actually liked in this book were Bindy (though I think she was dumb as heck for being so loyal to Nate) and Elly, who finally stands up to her brothers after once again letting them mistreat and abuse her.
I think the world is incredibly depressing, but also really well built and explained. We get to see more of the world because several of the characters are outside of Highfall. I liked seeing and learning about other parts of this world, but I’m frustrated that it didn’t seem to add anything to push the plot of this story forward. It felt like this was just more build up and getting things in place for a big conclusion while getting to know the characters even more.
Overall, I was a bit disappointed. After the big ending of the first book, I was excited to see what Gavin and Judah were going to do next. But they didn’t actually do anything. They just got ready to do things. The story was slow but I liked the characters enough that I was invested in what was going to happen to them. I think if you like character focused stories and fantasy books, you will absolutely enjoy this series.
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Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this advanced ebook in exchange for an honest review.
The Broken Tower follows the four characters that we got to know in the first book: Gavin, Elly, Judah, and Theron. But we start to follow a few others as well. I don’t know if it’s because we’re following so many different characters, or if it was just intended to be a more character focused than plot focused story, but I cannot give an accurate summary because literally nothing happened. Basically all of the characters were kidnapped and abused by one group of people or another at some point in this story. Some for a few days and other for most of the book. Judah learned more about her powers, but not really. She figured out on her own how to use her abilities in different ways from what she was taught in the first book, but none of it was explained really at all. Gavin just lets himself get abused and beat for most of the book and weirdly, so did Nate. The only characters that I actually liked in this book were Bindy (though I think she was dumb as heck for being so loyal to Nate) and Elly, who finally stands up to her brothers after once again letting them mistreat and abuse her.
I think the world is incredibly depressing, but also really well built and explained. We get to see more of the world because several of the characters are outside of Highfall. I liked seeing and learning about other parts of this world, but I’m frustrated that it didn’t seem to add anything to push the plot of this story forward. It felt like this was just more build up and getting things in place for a big conclusion while getting to know the characters even more.
Overall, I was a bit disappointed. After the big ending of the first book, I was excited to see what Gavin and Judah were going to do next. But they didn’t actually do anything. They just got ready to do things. The story was slow but I liked the characters enough that I was invested in what was going to happen to them. I think if you like character focused stories and fantasy books, you will absolutely enjoy this series.