gabbyalbers 's review for:

Ruination by Anthony Reynolds

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I get that this is like a villain origin story for one of the League of Legends champions, but I still expected more out of it. The story itself was okay, but it was lacking pretty badly in plot and character development. The characters themselves were very one-dimensional with little to no growth. I didn't really grasp until the very end of the book that it was really about Thresh and the Shadow Isles, because the majority of the book is not about him, and he doesn't really do much to lend to the overall plot or development of the story. As far as being a glorified, dramatized, drawn-out version of a backstory available on the League of Legends wiki, this book succeeded. I would say that is the only aspect this succeeded on, though. Overall, it wasn't terribly written, just not really worth the 400+ pages in my opinion.