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libraryofflo 's review for:
Heir of Storms
by Lauryn Hamilton Murray
So… I’ve got really mixed feelings on this one. I thought I would love it, the synopsis sounds exactly like something I would love and have loved in the past. However, there was something that didn’t quite work for me in here and while part of me wants to carry on with the series so I get the answers to all the questions that never got answered in this book, I might have to wait and see whether I actually pick it up.
So what I did like in the book was Fox. He was the best character in this book and he was criminally underutilised. The half brother of the heir to the throne, he grew up as the disregarded illegitimate son of the emperor and had to carve his own path, which we found out very little about. What did really annoy me was that despite Blaze having been bullied and ostracised for the storm she called as a baby, even though she knew that people didn’t know the circumstances or her intentions, she put the fact that Fox was named the Earth Cleaver and had all these things put on him, but he must have intended to be this destructive - he was 10 (ish) and anyone could have put the dates together but instead they all blamed a 10(ish) year old and feared him since then?
You know when a character is just so blatantly bad, but you are meant to act surprised when their master plan is revealed. That’s how this felt. Literally in chapter 2 this character makes Blaze feel uneasy and gets bad vibes, and there is nothing redeeming about them! This is similar with other characters who are just so stupidly mean, how many times did we need to see her cousin tripping her over or whispering behind her back, it just felt very juvenile, and maybe more middle grade insults than YA?
The pacing on this was weird. And that’s probably one of the reasons I kept putting this down, because every time I found myself getting engaged with the action and the tension, the next chapter would skip to hours later and just vaguely summarise what happened in between. If something has just happened, I want to see the character’s reactions, not have them reflect on them later, it just felt really disconnected.
So what I did like in the book was Fox. He was the best character in this book and he was criminally underutilised. The half brother of the heir to the throne, he grew up as the disregarded illegitimate son of the emperor and had to carve his own path, which we found out very little about. What did really annoy me was that despite Blaze having been bullied and ostracised for the storm she called as a baby, even though she knew that people didn’t know the circumstances or her intentions, she put the fact that Fox was named the Earth Cleaver and had all these things put on him, but he must have intended to be this destructive - he was 10 (ish) and anyone could have put the dates together but instead they all blamed a 10(ish) year old and feared him since then?
You know when a character is just so blatantly bad, but you are meant to act surprised when their master plan is revealed. That’s how this felt. Literally in chapter 2 this character makes Blaze feel uneasy and gets bad vibes, and there is nothing redeeming about them! This is similar with other characters who are just so stupidly mean, how many times did we need to see her cousin tripping her over or whispering behind her back, it just felt very juvenile, and maybe more middle grade insults than YA?
The pacing on this was weird. And that’s probably one of the reasons I kept putting this down, because every time I found myself getting engaged with the action and the tension, the next chapter would skip to hours later and just vaguely summarise what happened in between. If something has just happened, I want to see the character’s reactions, not have them reflect on them later, it just felt really disconnected.