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A review by a_h_haga
Bloodring by Faith Hunter
3.0
Reread 2020
Hah! I didn't realize I read this book for the first time in January two years ago! That's kinda fun!
I'd been considering giving this series a reread for a while, and then I got so sick and spent WAY too much money on audiobooks in December, so I thought this was as good a time as any to do that reread. Maybe it'd save me some cash.
My thoughts on a reread?
The book is better than I remember it, actually.
I remember it as more wordy and messy and repetative, but that wasn't really a problem this time around. I don't know why.
The story was also more interesting now, as I've gotten more into crystals since the last read - one of the reasons I'd been thinking about a reread - so the parts of the story that earlier felt like the author info-dumping were actually interesting to me this time around.
Probably still info-dumping, I just didn't notice.
I considered changing the rating, but the book is still a little wordy and have some cliche moment, not to mention I see that things from this book have been reused in other books byt he author. And there's the new rating-system to take into consideration. So it's staying at
3/5 stars
2018
By now I've listened to lot of books by Faith Hunter as audiobooks. This one was the first I tried to read, and I ended up listening to parts of it as an audiobook — because I wanted to continue reading when I needed to do other stuff, or when I wasn't in any shape to read.
This isn't her best book, though.
Rather early in the story I realized this was probably her first book. I looked it up, and was right. I realized it because of a few small thing that tasted a bit inmature for me, a few of those things new authors do where they make their characters and story a little OP. Ironically, this got better as I continued reading the book.
The story was a bit slow.
It picked up well late in the book, but in the beginning I had trouble staying focused on it. This was because the descriptions of the MC's work. It was interesting, but not wjat I wanted to read.
I do already have the rest of the trilogy, though, so I will continue reading it. It wasn't a bad book, but a little... unpolished (see what I did there?)
Hah! I didn't realize I read this book for the first time in January two years ago! That's kinda fun!
I'd been considering giving this series a reread for a while, and then I got so sick and spent WAY too much money on audiobooks in December, so I thought this was as good a time as any to do that reread. Maybe it'd save me some cash.
My thoughts on a reread?
The book is better than I remember it, actually.
I remember it as more wordy and messy and repetative, but that wasn't really a problem this time around. I don't know why.
The story was also more interesting now, as I've gotten more into crystals since the last read - one of the reasons I'd been thinking about a reread - so the parts of the story that earlier felt like the author info-dumping were actually interesting to me this time around.
Probably still info-dumping, I just didn't notice.
I considered changing the rating, but the book is still a little wordy and have some cliche moment, not to mention I see that things from this book have been reused in other books byt he author. And there's the new rating-system to take into consideration. So it's staying at
3/5 stars
2018
By now I've listened to lot of books by Faith Hunter as audiobooks. This one was the first I tried to read, and I ended up listening to parts of it as an audiobook — because I wanted to continue reading when I needed to do other stuff, or when I wasn't in any shape to read.
This isn't her best book, though.
Rather early in the story I realized this was probably her first book. I looked it up, and was right. I realized it because of a few small thing that tasted a bit inmature for me, a few of those things new authors do where they make their characters and story a little OP. Ironically, this got better as I continued reading the book.
The story was a bit slow.
It picked up well late in the book, but in the beginning I had trouble staying focused on it. This was because the descriptions of the MC's work. It was interesting, but not wjat I wanted to read.
I do already have the rest of the trilogy, though, so I will continue reading it. It wasn't a bad book, but a little... unpolished (see what I did there?)