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aritrigupta 's review for:
Wicked Saints
by Emily A. Duncan
Sigh! I was really excited about this - and I bought it off the Kindle store as soon as it was available.
However, here's to another overhyped book that just failed to be, well, anything.
Honestly, I did not like [b:Shadow and Bone|10194157|Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)|Leigh Bardugo|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1339533695s/10194157.jpg|15093325] to begin with, I found it passably entertaining, so I suppose I shouldn't have picked this up in the first place. But look, the name, and blood magic, and talking to gods!! How could I not?
I have to say that it was quite a blatant rip off of the the Grishaverse, even the so called climax of the book is almost the same. And the xenophobia in the book, is a bit staggering. But hey, I understand - a war between believers and non believers, hatred that is just drilled into the people from their births, I get that. So, largely speaking, this was the only part that made sense.
Rest, the plot is jumbled, no one really understood what they were doing, or why.
Nadya, was, well pretty useless, and this really didn't feel like her story. Serefin had elements of intrigue, but this was largely Malachiasz's story - so it was very clever and all that, using Nadya's and Serefin's POV, but it didn't really solve any purpose.
The magic systems did not really have rules that were given to the readers, but the blood magic bit was one of the better parts of the book. My main gripe is that I was bored. I was bored halfway through, and I stopped caring.
That cover is awesome though. But I am not going to read any further in this series.
However, here's to another overhyped book that just failed to be, well, anything.
Honestly, I did not like [b:Shadow and Bone|10194157|Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)|Leigh Bardugo|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1339533695s/10194157.jpg|15093325] to begin with, I found it passably entertaining, so I suppose I shouldn't have picked this up in the first place. But look, the name, and blood magic, and talking to gods!! How could I not?
I have to say that it was quite a blatant rip off of the the Grishaverse, even the so called climax of the book is almost the same. And the xenophobia in the book, is a bit staggering. But hey, I understand - a war between believers and non believers, hatred that is just drilled into the people from their births, I get that. So, largely speaking, this was the only part that made sense.
Rest, the plot is jumbled, no one really understood what they were doing, or why.
Nadya, was, well pretty useless, and this really didn't feel like her story. Serefin had elements of intrigue, but this was largely Malachiasz's story - so it was very clever and all that, using Nadya's and Serefin's POV, but it didn't really solve any purpose.
The magic systems did not really have rules that were given to the readers, but the blood magic bit was one of the better parts of the book. My main gripe is that I was bored. I was bored halfway through, and I stopped caring.
That cover is awesome though. But I am not going to read any further in this series.