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A review by gillian11
Children of Fire by Drew Karpyshyn
2.0
Probably 2.5 stars. I love fantasy books but man this book was so boring until maybe the last quarter of the book. I was going to go with 2 stars but bumped it up for the last part of the book. I did not like the writing style of this author. It was very dry and I didn't feel like it was written in a way to really pull me into the storyline or have any emotional connection to any of the characters. The beginning chapters were and overload of characters that I had trouble keeping them straight, and some of them were characters that never showed up again. Then it slowly moved to focus on the four main protagonists, but I still did not really care for any of them. I realize a lot of the book was their origin stories but it did not captivate me.
The plot was not super interesting until the end of the book when a lot of action happened. For some of the characters I felt like their POV chapters were very sparse, so it was a little difficult at times to try and remember what happened in their last chapter. Some of the characters were more interesting than others and I wish we got more chapters for them. The world building was okay, but the thing that made me really annoyed was that there was no map of the world in the book. So I had no idea where anything was located in reference to anything so it was really difficult to picture where all the characters were throughout the book. Overall, this book was only okay, bordering on not that great. I probably won't read the next books but would read spoilers to see how everything shakes out.
The plot was not super interesting until the end of the book when a lot of action happened. For some of the characters I felt like their POV chapters were very sparse, so it was a little difficult at times to try and remember what happened in their last chapter. Some of the characters were more interesting than others and I wish we got more chapters for them. The world building was okay, but the thing that made me really annoyed was that there was no map of the world in the book. So I had no idea where anything was located in reference to anything so it was really difficult to picture where all the characters were throughout the book. Overall, this book was only okay, bordering on not that great. I probably won't read the next books but would read spoilers to see how everything shakes out.