A review by aurynorange
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Crescent City 

Although this book made me really emotional reading it, I still have mixed feelings about the majority of it. As usual, I have issues with SJM’s pacing. It’s so uneven throughout the first 3/4 and then spatters you with craziness in the last 1/4. But weirdly then this one slowed down and dragged on in the end after the craziness too! So I felt like this book was WAY too long. 
I also felt like some of the twists… I kinda saw coming? Not the big mind melting ones (no spoilers here) but just some of the character twists of things were easily guessed. However I will say I did love the character’s stories of who they were and how they changed throughout the book, from good to bad back to good and then bad again and oh wait to good! So that kept me on my toes pretty well. 
I’m nowhere near as elegant with my words as some of my fellow readers so to put it short: way too long, loved the character arcs but saw some things coming. 
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