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Hero at the Fall
by Alwyn Hamilton
WARNING:
I am writing this review mostly for myself to read over when i re-read this book when i am more in the actual headspace to enjoy this book.
This is most likely not a good review, or even helpful to anyone. But i need to ramble and write out what thought now so that when i am in a better reading mood and space i can kind of compare and contrast too see if everything was really as i felt this read-through or if it was just my mood.
At the beginning -towards the middle of February- i got my hands on this book and started to read it and basically exactly on that day my reading "blah" phase hit. (in other words the phase i am still in where ALL the books i read are just not what i want or not what i expect and become disappointing read because they are just not what i want or need right this second)
So i am pretty sure that a lot of my problems with this book are MY problems since i am in a very strange reading mood where i notice every little detail that bothers me WAY more than i would normally, and i kind of glaze over the things that are good or great.
Add to that that i i just pushed myself to read the last 200 pages of this book to finish it in a handful of hours today before it was taken back by my library and i would have to go back on the waiting list to... its just never a great idea for me to force myself to read a specific book when i am not in the right headspace OR mood to read it.
Saying all of that i have to say i was disappointed with this last instalment of a trilogy i LOVED the first two books from.
Lets start with the good:
- The actual ending was okay, it wrapped up okay and it was done good.
- The writing itself was okay as well -this is probably one of the "me" things where with my current mood i noticed A LOT of the tiny little things that just kept bothering me endlessly and in reality its nothing that you can't overlook without problems.
- how the plot unraveled, because that was ... okay?
- the characters - those evolved from previous books in a way that made sense for most cases.
What i found annoying:
- Amani
she just felt so whiny and moody (ha! yes i actually saying this here and i am so aware of how utterly ridiculous it is to say that with my current moods!) and not as strong as she was specially in the second book.
- the pacing
it felt off to me.
There was a lot of rash moving and actions that made no real sense to me at the moments they happened and HOW they happened.
Also some of how it all played out was just... not at all logical or understandable to me and i was just trying to understand why the heck some things where happening at all.
Other moments in this book felt very slow moving, very dragged out.
It just felt strange to me that some pages felt endlessly long and others i had to reread to make sure i didn't miss anything because it felt too rushed and fast.
I have NO idea if that is because how of strangely separated i read this book, or if it has to do with my current reading mood, or if this book is actually a bit strangely paced? NO idea.
- the entire middle section of the book
It felt/read strange/incomplete (?) to me.
Partly because of the pacing -just mentioned that, but the middle section of the book around page 100 through to 300 or 400 where a strange feeling mixture of super fast paced action stuff and at the same time i felt like it could have easily been 100 pages shorter and nothing would have been left out.
And also because a lot of things happened with characters i didn't agree with or found necessary or just generally just... strangeness.
This might make no sense at all but it mostly didn't work for me and it felt like i was stuck in the middle section of this book for way longer than i should have spend reading those amount of pages
(but than again i did spend at least two weeks not picking the book up in that section at all so clearly i was stuck in that section longer than i would normally spend in one spot in a book... so there is that)
All in all?
It was okay.
It wasn't this BIG EPIC-NESS i kind of hoped for?
I had to big expectations for this book going into it. I know that, and the already talked about reading mood did NOT help with that at all.
But it just felt a bit like a let down especially after the greatness that was the second book.
Still its not at all a bad book, its defiantly worth a read, and a good end to the trilogy overall. Even if it is the weakest book in the trilogy overall in my option.
I am writing this review mostly for myself to read over when i re-read this book when i am more in the actual headspace to enjoy this book.
This is most likely not a good review, or even helpful to anyone. But i need to ramble and write out what thought now so that when i am in a better reading mood and space i can kind of compare and contrast too see if everything was really as i felt this read-through or if it was just my mood.
At the beginning -towards the middle of February- i got my hands on this book and started to read it and basically exactly on that day my reading "blah" phase hit. (in other words the phase i am still in where ALL the books i read are just not what i want or not what i expect and become disappointing read because they are just not what i want or need right this second)
So i am pretty sure that a lot of my problems with this book are MY problems since i am in a very strange reading mood where i notice every little detail that bothers me WAY more than i would normally, and i kind of glaze over the things that are good or great.
Add to that that i i just pushed myself to read the last 200 pages of this book to finish it in a handful of hours today before it was taken back by my library and i would have to go back on the waiting list to... its just never a great idea for me to force myself to read a specific book when i am not in the right headspace OR mood to read it.
Saying all of that i have to say i was disappointed with this last instalment of a trilogy i LOVED the first two books from.
Lets start with the good:
- The actual ending was okay, it wrapped up okay and it was done good.
- The writing itself was okay as well -this is probably one of the "me" things where with my current mood i noticed A LOT of the tiny little things that just kept bothering me endlessly and in reality its nothing that you can't overlook without problems.
- how the plot unraveled, because that was ... okay?
- the characters - those evolved from previous books in a way that made sense for most cases.
What i found annoying:
- Amani
she just felt so whiny and moody (ha! yes i actually saying this here and i am so aware of how utterly ridiculous it is to say that with my current moods!) and not as strong as she was specially in the second book.
- the pacing
it felt off to me.
There was a lot of rash moving and actions that made no real sense to me at the moments they happened and HOW they happened.
Also some of how it all played out was just... not at all logical or understandable to me and i was just trying to understand why the heck some things where happening at all.
Other moments in this book felt very slow moving, very dragged out.
It just felt strange to me that some pages felt endlessly long and others i had to reread to make sure i didn't miss anything because it felt too rushed and fast.
I have NO idea if that is because how of strangely separated i read this book, or if it has to do with my current reading mood, or if this book is actually a bit strangely paced? NO idea.
- the entire middle section of the book
It felt/read strange/incomplete (?) to me.
Partly because of the pacing -just mentioned that, but the middle section of the book around page 100 through to 300 or 400 where a strange feeling mixture of super fast paced action stuff and at the same time i felt like it could have easily been 100 pages shorter and nothing would have been left out.
And also because a lot of things happened with characters i didn't agree with or found necessary or just generally just... strangeness.
This might make no sense at all but it mostly didn't work for me and it felt like i was stuck in the middle section of this book for way longer than i should have spend reading those amount of pages
(but than again i did spend at least two weeks not picking the book up in that section at all so clearly i was stuck in that section longer than i would normally spend in one spot in a book... so there is that)
All in all?
It was okay.
It wasn't this BIG EPIC-NESS i kind of hoped for?
I had to big expectations for this book going into it. I know that, and the already talked about reading mood did NOT help with that at all.
But it just felt a bit like a let down especially after the greatness that was the second book.
Still its not at all a bad book, its defiantly worth a read, and a good end to the trilogy overall. Even if it is the weakest book in the trilogy overall in my option.