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A review by gotathingforthings
Analiese Rising by Brenda Drake
2.0
Analiese Rising follows Analiese, whose parents died when she was young. She was then raised by her uncle and aunt, but then her uncle also died four months ago. Then a random old man dies in front of her, and gives her a bag that she has to bring to his grandson. The grandson is Marek, and together they travel to Europe to follow the leads his grandfather left behind. They are also hunted, by gods.
This book could have been great, it has a lot of my favorite aspects in a fantasy novel. There is a mystery, a journey and mythology thrown into the pile. But it just not work for me, at all. I’m so glad this book is over, because I did not enjoy reading it. Luckily for me it, it was an easy read and the pages flew by when I was reading. Cudos for that.
Analiese is such a.. boring character? I have no idea why is the main character, because she has nothing to contribute with. Seriously. I just, urgh, I don’t even know what to write about her because it feels like there is nothing to write. She has anxiety disorder, which the author also acknowledges she has herself. I don’t know how well this was portrayed, but it really feels like that was the only trait Analiese had as a character.
The love interest was boring as well, it was too obvious to begin with. I don’t have an thing against them being together, they just didn’t make me feel anything at all. It really felt it was thrown in there like everything else.
The plot and the writing itself was so .. weird? They go to Europe on this hunt, this should have been fun and interesting, but it was all rushed over and odd? Sometimes the scenes are described and used a long time on, but there are several parts of the story when we just suddenly cut to the next scene. Like when they were going to Europe, they were just suddenly there. So things happens too abruptly. Also, when they solve the clues Marek’s grandfather left behind, they use such a short time on them? And right afterwards they are like: omg, that was so hard?
They literally just stare at the paper and the answers come to them. Marek himself say that his grandad would make the clues so no one but him could get them, but there are literal gods after them, surely they can’t be this stupid?
That brings me to the next part. Gods are after them, and then I’m not talking about one god, but several. Like from all mythologies in the whole world. The author has included all of it, and we get about one sentence for each of them when they decide to pop up, for who they are and what they can do. And we are supposed to remember that? It wasn’t even fun to have the gods there, they just popped in and out when it was convenient and they never felt really there or inserted into the story well at all.
Now the reason behind all if, the hunt and such. I am mildly interested, I liked the thought of the story behind it all. But it was badly explained, if explained at all, that it has just left me confused. The books gives a lot of questions it does not answer, I guess since this is the series. However, there was a point of the story where they went a place to “get all the answers”, but that didn’t really happen. So.
I give this book 1.5 stars. Really disappointed, and not something it would recommend.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for providing me with this eArc.
This book could have been great, it has a lot of my favorite aspects in a fantasy novel. There is a mystery, a journey and mythology thrown into the pile. But it just not work for me, at all. I’m so glad this book is over, because I did not enjoy reading it. Luckily for me it, it was an easy read and the pages flew by when I was reading. Cudos for that.
Analiese is such a.. boring character? I have no idea why is the main character, because she has nothing to contribute with. Seriously. I just, urgh, I don’t even know what to write about her because it feels like there is nothing to write. She has anxiety disorder, which the author also acknowledges she has herself. I don’t know how well this was portrayed, but it really feels like that was the only trait Analiese had as a character.
The love interest was boring as well, it was too obvious to begin with. I don’t have an thing against them being together, they just didn’t make me feel anything at all. It really felt it was thrown in there like everything else.
The plot and the writing itself was so .. weird? They go to Europe on this hunt, this should have been fun and interesting, but it was all rushed over and odd? Sometimes the scenes are described and used a long time on, but there are several parts of the story when we just suddenly cut to the next scene. Like when they were going to Europe, they were just suddenly there. So things happens too abruptly. Also, when they solve the clues Marek’s grandfather left behind, they use such a short time on them? And right afterwards they are like: omg, that was so hard?
They literally just stare at the paper and the answers come to them. Marek himself say that his grandad would make the clues so no one but him could get them, but there are literal gods after them, surely they can’t be this stupid?
That brings me to the next part. Gods are after them, and then I’m not talking about one god, but several. Like from all mythologies in the whole world. The author has included all of it, and we get about one sentence for each of them when they decide to pop up, for who they are and what they can do. And we are supposed to remember that? It wasn’t even fun to have the gods there, they just popped in and out when it was convenient and they never felt really there or inserted into the story well at all.
Now the reason behind all if, the hunt and such. I am mildly interested, I liked the thought of the story behind it all. But it was badly explained, if explained at all, that it has just left me confused. The books gives a lot of questions it does not answer, I guess since this is the series. However, there was a point of the story where they went a place to “get all the answers”, but that didn’t really happen. So.
I give this book 1.5 stars. Really disappointed, and not something it would recommend.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for providing me with this eArc.