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A review by slugsniffing
The Fire Ascending by Chris d'Lacey
1.0
I read this series back when I was 13 and fell in love with the first 3 books, but every book afterward got worse and worse. None of it made sense, the story was happening in about seven places at once, books would start in alternate realities with no warning - the whole thing just became more and more of a chore. I remember reading the penultimate book in which an eight year time jump happens for literally no reason other than to get that storyline up to date with the parallel reality's; I couldn't believe how lazy things had gotten. It felt like d'Lacey was making the storyline more and more complex to vex you into not noticing the shortcuts.
I got a chapter into this last book and returned it to the school library. I remember another kid asking me what I thought and I told him I loved the first few but the rest got less and less coherent. He nodded, and said "I couldn't even finish the last one." Kinda baffles me seeing so many glowing reviews of this one. The series just saddened me as it went on; there was so much life and potential in that first book, but it just felt like d'Lacey gave up by book four. That said, if people enjoyed it enough to rate this a 5, I might've been missing something.
I got a chapter into this last book and returned it to the school library. I remember another kid asking me what I thought and I told him I loved the first few but the rest got less and less coherent. He nodded, and said "I couldn't even finish the last one." Kinda baffles me seeing so many glowing reviews of this one. The series just saddened me as it went on; there was so much life and potential in that first book, but it just felt like d'Lacey gave up by book four. That said, if people enjoyed it enough to rate this a 5, I might've been missing something.