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A review by harasnicole
The Final Heir by Jon Monson
2.0
I'm honestly just so confused about this book. The world was lacking too much for me to get an idea of the setting, most of the characters spoke so aggressively to each other, barking, yelling, shouting, etc. I have no idea, roughly, how old the main characters are. I think Zahara and Ekarath are similar in age, I have no idea about Saren (who's fucking annoying, by the way), and Mahzun is... older, I guess? I don't know how much older, though, so who knows for certain.
I'm also confused as to why Mahzun is the villain when his motives for doing anything weren't even villainous. He was fighting to free his people, he was fighting against oppression, whereas Zahara and Ekarath were seemingly fighting to uphold it? How does that make sense? Are Zahara and Ekarath the true villains? Like I said, I'm so confused by this book.
And let's not get me started on the writing. Something about it was weirdly throwing me off, but I can't put my finger on why. Maybe it was the dialogue, I don't know, because a lot of the things people were saying sounded so... weird. Not in character almost. The dialogue, to me, in my personal opinion, was pretty cringe to read, not going to lie.
Also, Zahara... she's not my favorite character at all. She was unbelievably reckless, and for what? Every time she'd understand about not putting herself into unnecessary danger, but then someone (ahem, Saren) would encourage her to do the thing that she should not do and then it'd end up backfiring on her.
The story at least was interesting enough to keep me reading to see how it played out, but the ending was a bit of an anticlimax even though the big fight sequence was pretty damn cool to read. I just wish there had been more spells that Ekarath weaved instead of the lightning because it got pretty repetitive after a couple pages. I'm still not sure why he thinks he'll make a better ruler than Mahzun, but it is what it is at this point.
I'm also confused as to why Mahzun is the villain when his motives for doing anything weren't even villainous. He was fighting to free his people, he was fighting against oppression, whereas Zahara and Ekarath were seemingly fighting to uphold it? How does that make sense? Are Zahara and Ekarath the true villains? Like I said, I'm so confused by this book.
And let's not get me started on the writing. Something about it was weirdly throwing me off, but I can't put my finger on why. Maybe it was the dialogue, I don't know, because a lot of the things people were saying sounded so... weird. Not in character almost. The dialogue, to me, in my personal opinion, was pretty cringe to read, not going to lie.
Also, Zahara... she's not my favorite character at all. She was unbelievably reckless, and for what? Every time she'd understand about not putting herself into unnecessary danger, but then someone (ahem, Saren) would encourage her to do the thing that she should not do and then it'd end up backfiring on her.
The story at least was interesting enough to keep me reading to see how it played out, but the ending was a bit of an anticlimax even though the big fight sequence was pretty damn cool to read. I just wish there had been more spells that Ekarath weaved instead of the lightning because it got pretty repetitive after a couple pages. I'm still not sure why he thinks he'll make a better ruler than Mahzun, but it is what it is at this point.