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Heir to Thorn and Flame by Ben Alderson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
I was provided this book as an ARC through NetGalley by Second Sky ahead of the publication date and this is my honest review:
It's very rare I DNF books so this was a special case but sadly I just couldn't bring myself to keep reading as I found little in it that gripped me enough to continue on. Based on the cover and the synopsis for this book I thought I'd love it but truth is I found most characters, specially the villain ones, to be very one dimensional and that there was violence for the sake of violence alone. Max, our main character, was also infuriating at times by how he acted rather dumbly, picking all the worst times to rebel.
As I was having an hard time forcing myself to continue reading I did check other reviews before deciding to stop and the fact there is a love triangle and Max seemingly just keeps being tourtured throughout the rest of the book helped me decide to drop it.
However I'd like to note that I had never read a book by Ben Alderson before this one and was excited to do so and even if this book wasn't to my personal liking, I'm still interested in trying some of his other works as I have heard good things.
It's very rare I DNF books so this was a special case but sadly I just couldn't bring myself to keep reading as I found little in it that gripped me enough to continue on. Based on the cover and the synopsis for this book I thought I'd love it but truth is I found most characters, specially the villain ones, to be very one dimensional and that there was violence for the sake of violence alone. Max, our main character, was also infuriating at times by how he acted rather dumbly, picking all the worst times to rebel.
However I'd like to note that I had never read a book by Ben Alderson before this one and was excited to do so and even if this book wasn't to my personal liking, I'm still interested in trying some of his other works as I have heard good things.