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sarahsez 's review for:
The Demon's Covenant
by Sarah Rees Brennan
3.5
Ok, I have a lot of issues with this series. It's overly wordy, but also strangely under-explained - several scenes had me wondering 'wait, wtf just happened?' and I'm still not 100% clear that I can explain the premise, although that could be because I've forgotten a lot of what happened in the first book. Instead of talking naturally, three of the main characters just drop sarcastic one-liner after sarcastic one-liner, which gets really tiresome, really fast.
But even as I was rolling my eyes at the lamer parts, I still kept reading, because I wanted to know what was going to happen. I liked this book better than the first one, probably because the narrator wasn't an unfeeling sociopath, which made it a lot easier to empathize with. I liked the emphasis on familial love and friendship. As much as I complain about the dialogue, the humor did make me laugh on occasion (for example I loved the use of the word "enterpainment." It's high time English speakers got our own version of schadenfreude.)
I'll be very interested to see where the final book goes.
Ok, I have a lot of issues with this series. It's overly wordy, but also strangely under-explained - several scenes had me wondering 'wait, wtf just happened?' and I'm still not 100% clear that I can explain the premise, although that could be because I've forgotten a lot of what happened in the first book. Instead of talking naturally, three of the main characters just drop sarcastic one-liner after sarcastic one-liner, which gets really tiresome, really fast.
But even as I was rolling my eyes at the lamer parts, I still kept reading, because I wanted to know what was going to happen. I liked this book better than the first one, probably because the narrator wasn't an unfeeling sociopath, which made it a lot easier to empathize with. I liked the emphasis on familial love and friendship. As much as I complain about the dialogue, the humor did make me laugh on occasion (for example I loved the use of the word "enterpainment." It's high time English speakers got our own version of schadenfreude.)
I'll be very interested to see where the final book goes.