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A review by unicornstamped3
The Core by Peter V. Brett
3.0
Overall, it's a reasonable read. Did it need to be five books long? Not really. A trilogy would have been perfectly acceptable and there was a chance to end it nicely in book 3.
The author seems to have a touch of struggle when it comes to finishing a character arc in a satisfying way - certainly through the book many of the characters simply do not grow (any further) and when there's a chance for Ahmann to really develop, the story comes to an end.
The most interesting thing was the hint of 'Sanderson-like-Mistborn' moment at the end, but it feels like the author isn't quite willing to commit to that (or doesn't have the space to...) and it's simply left as a maybe in the mind.
The fourth book (as written) felt unneeded and the the fifth seemed determined to wrap everything up and then realised it had limited pages left so sped through the end.
I guess most of the expansion I wanted should have happened in Book 4 (I'd take anything to replace the current state of Book 4), so there was time to really let Book 5 focus on the Core. I didn't expect to be 600 pages in before the characters managed to go into the core (they spend many a chapter discussing the if, how, why, what of it all...)
I finished the series because I was four books and 2400+ pages in at that point, but you could easily stop at Book 3 and make up the end on your own!
The author seems to have a touch of struggle when it comes to finishing a character arc in a satisfying way - certainly through the book many of the characters simply do not grow (any further) and when there's a chance for Ahmann to really develop, the story comes to an end.
The most interesting thing was the hint of 'Sanderson-like-Mistborn' moment at the end, but it feels like the author isn't quite willing to commit to that (or doesn't have the space to...) and it's simply left as a maybe in the mind.
The fourth book (as written) felt unneeded and the the fifth seemed determined to wrap everything up and then realised it had limited pages left so sped through the end.
I guess most of the expansion I wanted should have happened in Book 4 (I'd take anything to replace the current state of Book 4), so there was time to really let Book 5 focus on the Core. I didn't expect to be 600 pages in before the characters managed to go into the core (they spend many a chapter discussing the if, how, why, what of it all...)
I finished the series because I was four books and 2400+ pages in at that point, but you could easily stop at Book 3 and make up the end on your own!