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chninamir 's review for:
Master Artificer
by Justin Travis Call
Thank you to Netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for providing me with a review copy of this book!!
Aaah, late-night review, let's gooooo.
So first and foremost, oh my goodness. This book is a monster. It is around 1000 pages long, and the funniest thing about it being so long is that even after 970+ pages I still wanted more! As you can probably see I gave this book 3 stars (3.5 stars rounded down), and the reason for that was that I wasn't so crazy about the first 700 pages, but omg the last ~300 pages were so! good!
Master Artificer is a very different book from Master of Sorrows. The main reason for this is because instead of focusing only on Annev, Master Artificer splits its focus between Annev, Myjun, Kenton, Fyn, and at times, Titus and Therin. The main drawback for me was that there were so many different stories going on at once. Master of Sorrows had made me used to the idea of Annev as the main character, but Master Artificer took that idea away from me.
For the first ~800 pages the majority of the growth, adventure, and development happens to characters that aren't Annev. Now, that wouldn't technically be a bad thing, I mean, we love reading about other cool characters and their development, right? Except for most of the other characters, I didn't actually care about what was going on with them.
At the beginning of the book, Fyn leaves the rest of the gang and begins his arc as a thief lord/rebel in the city of Luqura. The issue with Fyn's chapters was that I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the companions he picked up while in Luqura. From the start, it was obvious that the newly introduced characters were going to be throwaway characters. There was no significant development in them, and I couldn't tell one gang member apart from the other.
This issue with characters not being defined enough to be able to tell the difference between them kept up in all the chapters focusing on Titus and Therin. I just read a 1000 page book where they are featured as semi-major characters and I would not be able to tell you the difference between them. They're not distinctive, and every bit of dialogue they had made me cringe because of how childish they both sounded.
Other major players also include Myjun and Kenton. The two of them get incredibly cool story arcs and development, and usually, I'd be like yay! good for them! Except I spent most of the book annoyed that so much was happening to them while nothing was happening to Annev. Luckily, things pick up for Annev, (around page 800 as mentioned before), and that really saved the book for me. By the end of it, I was itching for more and was confused over why the book felt like it was so short.
Overall, I didn't enjoy Master Artificer as much as I did Master of Sorrows, but I am still very excited to see where the series is going and I can't wait to read the next book!
Aaah, late-night review, let's gooooo.
So first and foremost, oh my goodness. This book is a monster. It is around 1000 pages long, and the funniest thing about it being so long is that even after 970+ pages I still wanted more! As you can probably see I gave this book 3 stars (3.5 stars rounded down), and the reason for that was that I wasn't so crazy about the first 700 pages, but omg the last ~300 pages were so! good!
Master Artificer is a very different book from Master of Sorrows. The main reason for this is because instead of focusing only on Annev, Master Artificer splits its focus between Annev, Myjun, Kenton, Fyn, and at times, Titus and Therin. The main drawback for me was that there were so many different stories going on at once. Master of Sorrows had made me used to the idea of Annev as the main character, but Master Artificer took that idea away from me.
For the first ~800 pages the majority of the growth, adventure, and development happens to characters that aren't Annev. Now, that wouldn't technically be a bad thing, I mean, we love reading about other cool characters and their development, right? Except for most of the other characters, I didn't actually care about what was going on with them.
At the beginning of the book, Fyn leaves the rest of the gang and begins his arc as a thief lord/rebel in the city of Luqura. The issue with Fyn's chapters was that I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the companions he picked up while in Luqura. From the start, it was obvious that the newly introduced characters were going to be throwaway characters. There was no significant development in them, and I couldn't tell one gang member apart from the other.
This issue with characters not being defined enough to be able to tell the difference between them kept up in all the chapters focusing on Titus and Therin. I just read a 1000 page book where they are featured as semi-major characters and I would not be able to tell you the difference between them. They're not distinctive, and every bit of dialogue they had made me cringe because of how childish they both sounded.
Other major players also include Myjun and Kenton. The two of them get incredibly cool story arcs and development, and usually, I'd be like yay! good for them! Except I spent most of the book annoyed that so much was happening to them while nothing was happening to Annev. Luckily, things pick up for Annev, (around page 800 as mentioned before), and that really saved the book for me. By the end of it, I was itching for more and was confused over why the book felt like it was so short.
Overall, I didn't enjoy Master Artificer as much as I did Master of Sorrows, but I am still very excited to see where the series is going and I can't wait to read the next book!