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A review by skyzinnia
The Burning Tide by Jonathan Auxier
2.0
There's a lot of "of courses" in this one. Of course Mulop can happen to hide them from Zerif and communicate with all other great beasts. Of course Conor escapes. Of course each and every one of the glowstones were irrepairably broken. Of course Xanthe happens to get there right as they breach the city and OF COURSE she brings a whole army that evens the odds, of course Zerif thinks the Wyrm is under his control even though this same situation literally just happend with Shane and Gerathon. It's very predictable and everything conviently works out with flawless timing.
On pg. 94, "She recovered and quickly placed Jhi into passive state" on pg. 96, "Meilin fell to one side, trying her best to protect Jhi from falling rubble." On pg. 98, "Meilin brought Jhi into passive state." No where does it mention her being brought back after she was put away on pg. 94. She just brought Jhi out so rubble could fall on her then immediately put her back? Lol.
Takoda summoned Kovo, the Wyrm's biggest threat. Naturally, you'd think that means Takoda would have a target on his back. Apparently not to everyone else though because no one noticed the Wyrm snagged him. The Wyrm wants Takoda? Wow, I never saw that coming.
On pg. 144, "Rumfass the Ram."
Zerif took Uraza and Abeke didn't think it would be used against her at some point? She's the one preaching about how it's war and things must be done, then refuses to shoot Zerif?
It's kind of annoying that Kirat is suddenly a completely different person now that Rollan had a pep talk with him. Suddenly Cabaro sees him as worthy based on one speech he gave to a bunch of kids. He wasn't changed through war, conflict, or loss, it was literally just Rollan handing him an amulet. You don't suddenly change your entire personality the way he has without more than just that. I get the necklace is important to him, but after that he is suddenly the best leader, the best at plans, and the most mature of them? I wish there had been more of a growth arc for him than that and more of a bonding arc with Cabaro. He has been calling him stupid, lazy, and admitted he would give him to Zerif conscious-free, but all of that washes away and they are best friends all of a sudden because the speech was good?
On pg. 155, Shane saves Abeke from Uraza. She thinks if he knew how she felt about him he would still be alive. You think if he knew you loved him he wouldn't have saved you? Pretty sure that's not how it would go.
I don't understand why they are calling it The Thing now. It's still just the Wyrm that took Zerif over. It didn't magically become something other than itself.
I adored the ending. I don't want to spoil anything, but I was nearly in tears. I'm really happy with how the story progressed to this point. The story was good, but unfortunately it doesn't make up for this book's bad editing and poor character development.
On pg. 94, "She recovered and quickly placed Jhi into passive state" on pg. 96, "Meilin fell to one side, trying her best to protect Jhi from falling rubble." On pg. 98, "Meilin brought Jhi into passive state." No where does it mention her being brought back after she was put away on pg. 94. She just brought Jhi out so rubble could fall on her then immediately put her back? Lol.
Takoda summoned Kovo, the Wyrm's biggest threat. Naturally, you'd think that means Takoda would have a target on his back. Apparently not to everyone else though because no one noticed the Wyrm snagged him. The Wyrm wants Takoda? Wow, I never saw that coming.
On pg. 144, "Rumfass the Ram."
Zerif took Uraza and Abeke didn't think it would be used against her at some point? She's the one preaching about how it's war and things must be done, then refuses to shoot Zerif?
It's kind of annoying that Kirat is suddenly a completely different person now that Rollan had a pep talk with him. Suddenly Cabaro sees him as worthy based on one speech he gave to a bunch of kids. He wasn't changed through war, conflict, or loss, it was literally just Rollan handing him an amulet. You don't suddenly change your entire personality the way he has without more than just that. I get the necklace is important to him, but after that he is suddenly the best leader, the best at plans, and the most mature of them? I wish there had been more of a growth arc for him than that and more of a bonding arc with Cabaro. He has been calling him stupid, lazy, and admitted he would give him to Zerif conscious-free, but all of that washes away and they are best friends all of a sudden because the speech was good?
On pg. 155, Shane saves Abeke from Uraza. She thinks if he knew how she felt about him he would still be alive. You think if he knew you loved him he wouldn't have saved you? Pretty sure that's not how it would go.
I don't understand why they are calling it The Thing now. It's still just the Wyrm that took Zerif over. It didn't magically become something other than itself.
I adored the ending. I don't want to spoil anything, but I was nearly in tears. I'm really happy with how the story progressed to this point. The story was good, but unfortunately it doesn't make up for this book's bad editing and poor character development.