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A review by slavicreader
The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding
adventurous
funny
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Beware: I did not enjoy this book and while I'll try to highlight some positives, my reading experience was not good overall.
The first 40% was so, so good! I loved the prison and castle arcs. There was humour, trickery and suffering. It was a great blend of everything you could ever want from a traditional fantasy.
Then. Well, then the rest of the book happened.
The next 40% made me want to bash my head in. We were introduced to move POVs and I found myself simply not caring. At all. Doesn't help that nothing much happened, and instead we had to listen to "terrifying" men whine about one thing or another. So many things irked me. Writing inconsistencies. Character plot holes. Once I saw these things, it also became hard to unsee them - they continued to bother me until the very end.
I won't go into too much detail about evey single thing that irked me. But I will say; for a heist book, there's very little heist to go around. The last 15% or so was the heist? For a chunky book, it's just mostly full of... Nothing. No plot.
My enjoyment ever so slightly picked up in the last 20%, but not enough to salvage much. I will not be reading the sequel and given that this is Wooding's most well known title, his work probably just isn't for me.
On a final note, I loved Grub. He carries the whole book on his shoulders, what a champ.
The first 40% was so, so good! I loved the prison and castle arcs. There was humour, trickery and suffering. It was a great blend of everything you could ever want from a traditional fantasy.
Then. Well, then the rest of the book happened.
The next 40% made me want to bash my head in. We were introduced to move POVs and I found myself simply not caring. At all. Doesn't help that nothing much happened, and instead we had to listen to "terrifying" men whine about one thing or another. So many things irked me. Writing inconsistencies. Character plot holes. Once I saw these things, it also became hard to unsee them - they continued to bother me until the very end.
I won't go into too much detail about evey single thing that irked me. But I will say; for a heist book, there's very little heist to go around. The last 15% or so was the heist? For a chunky book, it's just mostly full of... Nothing. No plot.
My enjoyment ever so slightly picked up in the last 20%, but not enough to salvage much. I will not be reading the sequel and given that this is Wooding's most well known title, his work probably just isn't for me.
On a final note, I loved Grub. He carries the whole book on his shoulders, what a champ.