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A review by mhedgescsus
Flowers of Esthelm by Pirateaba
5.0
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One of the most addicting series that has ever been created just continues to impress more and more each book.
It's been a long time since I went into a book with such high confidence that it would be a 5 star rating, and this book absolutely did not let me down in any way. It takes everything that was good about the first couple books, and just moves things along to both expand this world , and improves on the writing quality in an overwhelming way.
It's shocking that an author can improve so much in such a short amount of time. What went from rather clunky prose turned into something you would expect from a top tier author.
While I think the story in this book was very good, what really made this book stand out to me even more than the previous entries were the characters. Erin and Ryoka took a bit of a backseat here after having two volumes almost entirely focused around them. And while they did exist in this book, they are just one of several different POVs and arguably not the main ones.
What we got instead was one new character that is featured at the beginning of this book and gets several chapters laced throughout that I am absolutely enthralled with and could read an entire book devoted to them. And we got several characters that got a renewed focus, characters I didn't realize I wanted to read so much about but I am not absolutely obsessed with.
For a while into this book I kept thinking that while this was great and all, I really wanted to get back to the main story - but what I realized eventually was that there really isn't a main story here, and instead is just telling many stories that slowly get stitched together, and I am here for it.
I have every single confidence in the world that I am not only going to enjoy future entries into this series, but am going to likely enjoy them more and more until this series turns into an all time great for me. I cannot wait to continue this journey.
One of the most addicting series that has ever been created just continues to impress more and more each book.
It's been a long time since I went into a book with such high confidence that it would be a 5 star rating, and this book absolutely did not let me down in any way. It takes everything that was good about the first couple books, and just moves things along to both expand this world , and improves on the writing quality in an overwhelming way.
It's shocking that an author can improve so much in such a short amount of time. What went from rather clunky prose turned into something you would expect from a top tier author.
While I think the story in this book was very good, what really made this book stand out to me even more than the previous entries were the characters. Erin and Ryoka took a bit of a backseat here after having two volumes almost entirely focused around them. And while they did exist in this book, they are just one of several different POVs and arguably not the main ones.
What we got instead was one new character that is featured at the beginning of this book and gets several chapters laced throughout that I am absolutely enthralled with and could read an entire book devoted to them. And we got several characters that got a renewed focus, characters I didn't realize I wanted to read so much about but I am not absolutely obsessed with.
For a while into this book I kept thinking that while this was great and all, I really wanted to get back to the main story - but what I realized eventually was that there really isn't a main story here, and instead is just telling many stories that slowly get stitched together, and I am here for it.
I have every single confidence in the world that I am not only going to enjoy future entries into this series, but am going to likely enjoy them more and more until this series turns into an all time great for me. I cannot wait to continue this journey.