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A review by andotherworlds
King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
2.0
2 // Oh my god I finally finished this book, peace has finally been restored. I think it is safe to say, I won't be continuing on with this series and I am just going to google who ends up with who because I refuse to put myself through this tedious drag.
I began this series thinking it really had an interesting plot, done before, yes, but interesting nonetheless. I finished the first book giving it 4 stars I believe, which is a very good rating. A part of me was left feeling a bit "meh" after reading it due to my lack of any connection to the characters, but I thought the plot was enticing enough to continue.
Then came the second book. This is where I started realizing I did not really enjoy the series. I ended up rating it at about 3 stars, which, again, is a fairly decent rating, however this is the book where I realized the main issue with the writing. That being, it is so incredibly bland. Everything is two-dimensional. The story lines and characters arcs have such potential but the execution just falls short. I think I rated the second book 3 stars because I still had a decent time reading it, I was simply seeing more of its many flaws.
And here we are, the third book in this series, and wow I really wanted to put this book down. I listedned to each of these on audio, and usually I enjoy listening to an audio book whilst roller skating, walking, etc, but I could not, for the life of me, being myself to be excited enough to listen to this. Mare, the protagonist was in a literal jail for the majority of this book. She didn't give any interesting anecdotes, and she did not have any character development. She really just existed. Same with all the other characters. One thing a bit different with this book from the others was the multiple perspectives. Cameron's perspective was honestly annoying, she mostly spent her time hating on the other characters, and by the last half of the book when Mare returned from the "prison", her perspective basically dwindled until it just disappeared. Hmmm, I smell plot convenience. The fact that she just wasn't getting as much talking time by the end of the book goes to show that her perspective was just there to describe what Cal was doing while Mare was gone. We literally could have just gotten Carl's perspective. The one saving grace of this book was Evangeline. She was always and interesting character in this series and I thought giving her a perspective was fairly nice, albeit a bit strange because we went from hearing and knowing almost nothing about her for most of the books, to randomly getting her perspective towards the end of this book.
Overall, this series just disappointed me. It has so much hype from others, and its storyline has loads of potential. It's execution just does not meet the standards and pace of the compelling themes it brings up making it slow, and frankly boring. I have no attachments to the plot or the characters, thus I will not be continuing on with the series.
I began this series thinking it really had an interesting plot, done before, yes, but interesting nonetheless. I finished the first book giving it 4 stars I believe, which is a very good rating. A part of me was left feeling a bit "meh" after reading it due to my lack of any connection to the characters, but I thought the plot was enticing enough to continue.
Then came the second book. This is where I started realizing I did not really enjoy the series. I ended up rating it at about 3 stars, which, again, is a fairly decent rating, however this is the book where I realized the main issue with the writing. That being, it is so incredibly bland. Everything is two-dimensional. The story lines and characters arcs have such potential but the execution just falls short. I think I rated the second book 3 stars because I still had a decent time reading it, I was simply seeing more of its many flaws.
And here we are, the third book in this series, and wow I really wanted to put this book down. I listedned to each of these on audio, and usually I enjoy listening to an audio book whilst roller skating, walking, etc, but I could not, for the life of me, being myself to be excited enough to listen to this. Mare, the protagonist was in a literal jail for the majority of this book. She didn't give any interesting anecdotes, and she did not have any character development. She really just existed. Same with all the other characters. One thing a bit different with this book from the others was the multiple perspectives. Cameron's perspective was honestly annoying, she mostly spent her time hating on the other characters, and by the last half of the book when Mare returned from the "prison", her perspective basically dwindled until it just disappeared. Hmmm, I smell plot convenience. The fact that she just wasn't getting as much talking time by the end of the book goes to show that her perspective was just there to describe what Cal was doing while Mare was gone. We literally could have just gotten Carl's perspective. The one saving grace of this book was Evangeline. She was always and interesting character in this series and I thought giving her a perspective was fairly nice, albeit a bit strange because we went from hearing and knowing almost nothing about her for most of the books, to randomly getting her perspective towards the end of this book.
Overall, this series just disappointed me. It has so much hype from others, and its storyline has loads of potential. It's execution just does not meet the standards and pace of the compelling themes it brings up making it slow, and frankly boring. I have no attachments to the plot or the characters, thus I will not be continuing on with the series.