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A review by madaubosh
Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen
1.0
Despite how terrible the ending of the first book was, I'll admit that I went into this with some hope this one would be better. It was not. This read was painful. Thankfully, unlike when I read the Gender Games, there are only three books in this series instead of however many million there were in that one.
I had two expressions for the entire duration of the book:
I'll start off by saying the world-building in this book was horrific. Non-existent. I finally understand why Nyxia is this all-powerful substance (or whatever you want to call it). It's a giant bandaid so no actual development needed to be put into building up this planet.
There are still too many characters. A few of them have one personality trait but those are the special main characters. They are all interchangeable. If there was a convo with no names between two characters and they couldn't reference their background you would have no idea who was talking. You couldn't pick their personality out of a lineup.
The foreshadowing/clues/hints/whatever you want to call it is so heavy-handed. Like, thanks for making it super obvious what's coming next. The characters, though, they're all stupid about all of this very obvious stuff for the sake of the plot. I really hate that in books. Like, there could be a flashing neon sign telling them what's about to happen and they'd be like 'huh, wonder what that means'.
Even in some of the worst books and series I've read, I've always gotten kind of attached to one or two characters. That's not at all the case with this series. They're all so flat. The relationships are practically stapled together. I just don't care. I read that there are some big deaths in the next book and I'm just like 'at least there won't be so many characters'.
Now onto the last book. Can this series be redeemed? I would be so surprised. I'm far less optimistic going into this one.
I had two expressions for the entire duration of the book:
I'll start off by saying the world-building in this book was horrific. Non-existent. I finally understand why Nyxia is this all-powerful substance (or whatever you want to call it). It's a giant bandaid so no actual development needed to be put into building up this planet.
There are still too many characters. A few of them have one personality trait but those are the special main characters. They are all interchangeable. If there was a convo with no names between two characters and they couldn't reference their background you would have no idea who was talking. You couldn't pick their personality out of a lineup.
The foreshadowing/clues/hints/whatever you want to call it is so heavy-handed. Like, thanks for making it super obvious what's coming next. The characters, though, they're all stupid about all of this very obvious stuff for the sake of the plot. I really hate that in books. Like, there could be a flashing neon sign telling them what's about to happen and they'd be like 'huh, wonder what that means'.
Even in some of the worst books and series I've read, I've always gotten kind of attached to one or two characters. That's not at all the case with this series. They're all so flat. The relationships are practically stapled together. I just don't care. I read that there are some big deaths in the next book and I'm just like 'at least there won't be so many characters'.
Now onto the last book. Can this series be redeemed? I would be so surprised. I'm far less optimistic going into this one.