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A review by sarahp85
Namesake by Adrienne Young
3.0
Thanks to a fellow booknerd who told me this book was available as a direct-read on NetGalley I got my hands on it straightaway.
I had just bought Fable so obviously had to read that one first. And where I wrote in my review on the first book that it started off a bit slow and then rushed towards the end and left me wanting more, Namesake dives right in and picks up where things were left in Fable.
The pace is quick, the excitement is real and I absolutely love Fable and the world she lives in.
A lot of characters from the first book reappear in the second one.
However much I love the world Adrienne Young has built, and how much I like Fable... to me it wasn't clear what the plot was and where the story was going. It sometimes felt a bit like there were way more ideas/stories to be told but were either edited out or just not written.
This is a book that makes you think about what you would do for family, bloodbound or chosen. Which I really liked.
There is romance, but I just didn't get West. I couldn't connect to him at all, couldn't pin point what he was all about.
All in all I really liked this duology but in a way I hope there will be some side stories about some of the other characters to maybe get a little bit more of a complete story feel.
I had just bought Fable so obviously had to read that one first. And where I wrote in my review on the first book that it started off a bit slow and then rushed towards the end and left me wanting more, Namesake dives right in and picks up where things were left in Fable.
The pace is quick, the excitement is real and I absolutely love Fable and the world she lives in.
A lot of characters from the first book reappear in the second one.
However much I love the world Adrienne Young has built, and how much I like Fable... to me it wasn't clear what the plot was and where the story was going. It sometimes felt a bit like there were way more ideas/stories to be told but were either edited out or just not written.
This is a book that makes you think about what you would do for family, bloodbound or chosen. Which I really liked.
There is romance, but I just didn't get West. I couldn't connect to him at all, couldn't pin point what he was all about.
All in all I really liked this duology but in a way I hope there will be some side stories about some of the other characters to maybe get a little bit more of a complete story feel.