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A review by vaporization
Emperor of Ruin by Django Wexler
3.0
This book is good...I think. I don't think it's worse than the previous books in the series even though I rated them 4 stars. I did read them like 2 years ago.
This book is really...inoffensive. It's technically competent, and it's fine. But it's missing something. It felt almost too neatly done. I could really feel the presence of the plot. Like, Varo's place in this book is very obviously just for plot convenience. He exits the plot off-page and then comes back to exposit. I didn't really feel all that connected to the characters in this book.
The series has felt very YA-adjacent from the beginning. I'm just not into that anymore. The one-liners during the battle scenes were straight out of a cheesy action movie.
This book is really...inoffensive. It's technically competent, and it's fine. But it's missing something. It felt almost too neatly done. I could really feel the presence of the plot. Like, Varo's place in this book is very obviously just for plot convenience. He exits the plot off-page and then comes back to exposit. I didn't really feel all that connected to the characters in this book.
The series has felt very YA-adjacent from the beginning. I'm just not into that anymore. The one-liners during the battle scenes were straight out of a cheesy action movie.