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A review by labunnywtf
Invictus by Ryan Graudin
4.0
My book loves did not love this book. If you look at the chat, you will see that every time someone said they didn't love it, I took a sip.
I took a few sips. I am quite tipsy. That's okay, though. I'd say the average rating between the lot of them is a 3, and I'm okay with that. More liked than disliked. Though I think they were being nice because I was having the vapors in the chat.
I did re-read it, I do still love it. Though on re-read, I read it from the perspective of someone who hadn't fallen in love with it on the first read, and I can see plenty of flaws. For one thing, I genuinely wish Graudin had spent more time on the heists. We're rushed through them, and so much time is wasted before we get to the meat of the story. I think if this had been even a duology, where the first book focused on the heists, successes, near misses, and then the second book dealt with the multiverse aspect, a lot of the complaints about the book would've been diminished.
I do still adore this book, I do still want my TV series based on it. But I'll deduct one star, because I can see where complaints could be made.
::goes to pour another glass of wine::
I took a few sips. I am quite tipsy. That's okay, though. I'd say the average rating between the lot of them is a 3, and I'm okay with that. More liked than disliked. Though I think they were being nice because I was having the vapors in the chat.
I did re-read it, I do still love it. Though on re-read, I read it from the perspective of someone who hadn't fallen in love with it on the first read, and I can see plenty of flaws. For one thing, I genuinely wish Graudin had spent more time on the heists. We're rushed through them, and so much time is wasted before we get to the meat of the story. I think if this had been even a duology, where the first book focused on the heists, successes, near misses, and then the second book dealt with the multiverse aspect, a lot of the complaints about the book would've been diminished.
I do still adore this book, I do still want my TV series based on it. But I'll deduct one star, because I can see where complaints could be made.
::goes to pour another glass of wine::