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A review by ktc8
Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
4.0
Okay I think I got the vision by the end of it. I really would not have finished this without the audiobook and kudos to the audiobook person for sounding hot bc i would not have even gotten this far without you queen.
The things she did right were good: really a beautiful world and expansive and a host of super varying characters and places. I feel like if you enjoyed when the avatar gaang travelled around to different places in the world you would enjoy this one. Erida?? Bad bitch incoming I'm so into her just going dark side like wow okay that's hot and so plot twisty. I thought she was gonna marry Andry lmfao.
The things that I don't think she did well is a longer list but I'm mostly just being picky. Aveyard set the scene well enough and the first chapter was really great, I love the premise, but the execution was kinda lacking. The pace!! was soooo slow. I feel like YA authors who try their hand at NA/Adult really struggle with pacing. Just because its an "older" genre doesn't mean it has to go slow!!! Nothing gripping or interesting really happened until like 300 pages in and then not again until the end I was really just hanging out, waiting. That's the biggest issue. I don't think I really cared for any of the characters until maybe the end, liked Dom a lot and Sarasa was cool, but until they actually did stuff, aka in the end, they were all just so boring. The worldbuilding was a good, she loves to describe cities my goodness but thats cool I like when a setting is explained well to imagine it, but I'm not sure it needed to be 500 pages of describing stuff. Also wtf is a spindle we literally never get this explanation sldkjfskl. Final thought is that I never really got the WHY. Why did any of them choose to do this. They don't even know what they were setting out to do. There was no point for any of them to put their lives on the line for something they didn't even know of.
Also Sarasa is just Inej if she was Kaz. Change my mind.
Dom is Matthias. Cute of him.
I liked it enough to finish it! I think I'm also coming off of the Throne of Glass high, of extreme stakes and great characters, to a slower paced book and that didn't help at all lol. Still, I like what she's doing here and I might read the next one, we'll see!!
The things she did right were good: really a beautiful world and expansive and a host of super varying characters and places. I feel like if you enjoyed when the avatar gaang travelled around to different places in the world you would enjoy this one. Erida?? Bad bitch incoming I'm so into her just going dark side like wow okay that's hot and so plot twisty. I thought she was gonna marry Andry lmfao.
The things that I don't think she did well is a longer list but I'm mostly just being picky. Aveyard set the scene well enough and the first chapter was really great, I love the premise, but the execution was kinda lacking. The pace!! was soooo slow. I feel like YA authors who try their hand at NA/Adult really struggle with pacing. Just because its an "older" genre doesn't mean it has to go slow!!! Nothing gripping or interesting really happened until like 300 pages in and then not again until the end I was really just hanging out, waiting. That's the biggest issue. I don't think I really cared for any of the characters until maybe the end, liked Dom a lot and Sarasa was cool, but until they actually did stuff, aka in the end, they were all just so boring. The worldbuilding was a good, she loves to describe cities my goodness but thats cool I like when a setting is explained well to imagine it, but I'm not sure it needed to be 500 pages of describing stuff. Also wtf is a spindle we literally never get this explanation sldkjfskl. Final thought is that I never really got the WHY. Why did any of them choose to do this. They don't even know what they were setting out to do. There was no point for any of them to put their lives on the line for something they didn't even know of.
Also Sarasa is just Inej if she was Kaz. Change my mind.
Dom is Matthias. Cute of him.
I liked it enough to finish it! I think I'm also coming off of the Throne of Glass high, of extreme stakes and great characters, to a slower paced book and that didn't help at all lol. Still, I like what she's doing here and I might read the next one, we'll see!!