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A review by alivaster
Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore
1.0
I don't really have anything good to say, so here's just the short review:
Gorgeous cover.
Great premise.
Terrible execution.
As much as I loved Graceling and Fire (probably some of my favorite books ever), Bitterblue was a letdown and this book just felt like a crash and burn. Kind of similar to how Bitterblue handled plot, characters, and flow, Winterkeep had similar problems, but was ultimately worse. The story just didn't come together, the characters didn't feel fully developed to me, and the politics that were thrown into the book weren't set up properly. Does anyone remember the climate crisis in Maximum Ride series that made us all raise eyebrows? Yeah, the politics in here also gave me the same eyebrow raise. If you want to make an impact, you need to build it up correctly and address it right, and this wasn't done here.
This book just didn't work for me.
Gorgeous cover.
Great premise.
Terrible execution.
As much as I loved Graceling and Fire (probably some of my favorite books ever), Bitterblue was a letdown and this book just felt like a crash and burn. Kind of similar to how Bitterblue handled plot, characters, and flow, Winterkeep had similar problems, but was ultimately worse. The story just didn't come together, the characters didn't feel fully developed to me, and the politics that were thrown into the book weren't set up properly. Does anyone remember the climate crisis in Maximum Ride series that made us all raise eyebrows? Yeah, the politics in here also gave me the same eyebrow raise. If you want to make an impact, you need to build it up correctly and address it right, and this wasn't done here.
This book just didn't work for me.