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A review by ela000
Blade Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
adventurous
slow-paced
2.0
I liked this book more than the first one, which isn’t hard at all because the first one sucked. But honestly, so did this one. Just slightly less. The only reason it was a bit better was because the world was already set up, but that didn’t help much, since the characters still had zero progress or development.
It is so slow. Like, I usually don’t mind slow pacing (I like a good slow burn or whatever), but this one? It just wasn’t hitting. It was dragging so much I genuinely considered DNFing it. And I had the same problem in the first book too, where it felt like half the pages were just unnecessary. This book had that exact same issue. It felt like half of it was filler. And yeah, sure, I did enjoy a few moments here and there, but the rest of it ruined it for me so badly that it almost put me in a reading slump. Every time I started to get into it, the next chapter would just kill the vibe.
At this point, I think I just have a problem with this author. I didn’t like Red Queen either, but at least that series was a bit more fast-paced. This book though? So incredibly boring. Like, I can’t even describe how boring it was. I hate DNFing books, which is why I pushed through, but I also hate DNFing series, and now I think I might break that rule. This is book two in a trilogy, and I just can’t imagine putting myself through another 600 pages of this.
I really, really wish the author would just cut the length in half and actually work on what’s left. Even the characters I kinda liked in the first book were annoying here. The only one I ended up liking more was Sorasa, which, cool, I guess.
Anyway. I’m done.
It is so slow. Like, I usually don’t mind slow pacing (I like a good slow burn or whatever), but this one? It just wasn’t hitting. It was dragging so much I genuinely considered DNFing it. And I had the same problem in the first book too, where it felt like half the pages were just unnecessary. This book had that exact same issue. It felt like half of it was filler. And yeah, sure, I did enjoy a few moments here and there, but the rest of it ruined it for me so badly that it almost put me in a reading slump. Every time I started to get into it, the next chapter would just kill the vibe.
At this point, I think I just have a problem with this author. I didn’t like Red Queen either, but at least that series was a bit more fast-paced. This book though? So incredibly boring. Like, I can’t even describe how boring it was. I hate DNFing books, which is why I pushed through, but I also hate DNFing series, and now I think I might break that rule. This is book two in a trilogy, and I just can’t imagine putting myself through another 600 pages of this.
I really, really wish the author would just cut the length in half and actually work on what’s left. Even the characters I kinda liked in the first book were annoying here. The only one I ended up liking more was Sorasa, which, cool, I guess.
Anyway. I’m done.