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Ashes of the Sun
by Django Wexler
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Ashes of the Sun has a very promising premise. The world especially, was definitely intriguing. However the execution of this very promising plot was below par. To be honest, I did not think this was the work of a seasoned author.
So the book opens up with Gyre and his sister Maya taking care of the family's farm animals. Fast forward to a random official showing up, Va something something Thousandcuts, Maya is taken against her parents will? maybe not against her parents will? We're never really told. Either way, she's taken, there's much crying, Gyre tries to "rescue" her and gets one of his eyes fucked up for his troubles.
12 years later, Gyre is older and swearing something that seems like revenge, smells like revenge and talks like revenge but he says it's liberation. Maya is firmly entrenched in the ideals of the Twilight Order and every time she opens her mouth basically sounds like the goody two shoes you'd hate in secondary school.
The nail in the coffin for this book for me is that you could more often than not, predict what was going to happen and quite frankly these characters were dumb as rocks.
Umm spoilers I guess *shrug*
Maya gets miraculous powers at the end of the book because sure that makes sense. Gyre's brain never picks up on the fact that Kit was one step from betraying him even though it was obvious to anyone with half a brain. But I guess when you're thinking with your penis you can't really think with your real brain.
Wexler dedicates for some weird reason too much time in my opinion to the sex life of Gyre and Maya. Oh, look Maya masturbates, oh look Gyre can't say no to Kit trying to drag his penis out every time she's horny (which is a lot of times by the way). How does this help the book? I'm guessing the point was to show them as regular people, readers could somehow relate to but to be honest, more time should have been spent giving them a brain and making them think smartly....
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All in all, amazing world, great potential but
execution falls flat...
"I am seizing you on the authority of the Twilight Order...You stand accused of practicing dhaka. You will have an opportunity to present evidence in your defense"
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Ashes of the Sun has a very promising premise. The world especially, was definitely intriguing. However the execution of this very promising plot was below par. To be honest, I did not think this was the work of a seasoned author.
So the book opens up with Gyre and his sister Maya taking care of the family's farm animals. Fast forward to a random official showing up, Va something something Thousandcuts, Maya is taken against her parents will? maybe not against her parents will? We're never really told. Either way, she's taken, there's much crying, Gyre tries to "rescue" her and gets one of his eyes fucked up for his troubles.
12 years later, Gyre is older and swearing something that seems like revenge, smells like revenge and talks like revenge but he says it's liberation. Maya is firmly entrenched in the ideals of the Twilight Order and every time she opens her mouth basically sounds like the goody two shoes you'd hate in secondary school.
The nail in the coffin for this book for me is that you could more often than not, predict what was going to happen and quite frankly these characters were dumb as rocks.
Umm spoilers I guess *shrug*
Maya gets miraculous powers at the end of the book because sure that makes sense. Gyre's brain never picks up on the fact that Kit was one step from betraying him even though it was obvious to anyone with half a brain. But I guess when you're thinking with your penis you can't really think with your real brain.
Wexler dedicates for some weird reason too much time in my opinion to the sex life of Gyre and Maya. Oh, look Maya masturbates, oh look Gyre can't say no to Kit trying to drag his penis out every time she's horny (which is a lot of times by the way). How does this help the book? I'm guessing the point was to show them as regular people, readers could somehow relate to but to be honest, more time should have been spent giving them a brain and making them think smartly....
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All in all, amazing world, great potential but
execution falls flat...