rhianne23's reviews
16 reviews

Pierce Brown's Red Rising: Sons of Ares Vol. 2: Wrath by Rik Hoskin, Pierce Brown

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I enjoyed this graphic novel, but maybe not as much as the first one.

 I liked seeing the character development in Fitchner and I overall enjoyed the storyline and found it interesting to see how the sons of ares originated, it’s was a nice paced graphic novel and was easy to understand. And of course who doesn’t love seeing baby Sevro.

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Being a bit fan of the netflix tv show and the wild hunt witcher 3 game i was really excited to be able to read this book when i got my hands on it.

I really enjoyed this book, i loved the certain aspects of the storys with them being different takes on fairytales, And it was really nice to be able to see the full side to these stories since most of the last wish is netflix series one, so it was nice to be able to see the things that the tv show missed. I feel like reading this was a medium pace as i didnt fly through this book but i really fell in love with some of the characters we see in this book, Mostly Geralt, Jaskier and Ciri.

The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I read this book as a palate cleanser while i was also reading The Way of Kings.
I had read omegaverse before but i really enjoyed this book, it was a nice lighthhearted and fased paced book which i thought was needed since i was also reading an 1000+ page book.

i found the storyline predictable but it was a nice change since i had not read a full romance book in a while, if you are just starting out with the Omegaverse this is definitely a nice book to start on. I also thought that the fated mates trope was used well, as the couple together had to understand that they had to be togerher appose from the relationship just being forced because they had to due to being fated mates. 

Pierce Brown's Red Rising: Sons of Ares, Vol. 1 by Rik Hoskin, Pierce Brown

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I really enjoying reading this graphic novel, it’s really interesting to see how the sons of ares originated and I can’t wait to read the other two volumes. And a bonus was I got to see baby Sevro 

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I really enjoyed this book, I was so intimidated with this series because of the size of these books with them all being 1000+ pages. 

But I absolutely loved it, once again Brandon Sanderson has made me connect with these characters and fall in love with them in the very first book. Kaladin is the main character in this book following his backstory to see how he got to where he is now, his character development in this book is slow but you can definitely tell how he’s changed throughout the book and it was interesting to see what had happened to leave him where he is, his chapters were also enjoyable because of sly because I just love her.

The other characters we follow in this book are Shallan, Dalinar and Adolin being the other main characters along with some other interesting characters within the interludes. I did really enjoy Shallans chapters but I only really started to enjoy them near the end of the book, same with Dalinars chapters, but I can’t wait to learn more about them and see their backstory’s in the next books. 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I was so apprehensive to start this series but now after finished the whole series and being able to now digest everything this is probably one of my favourite series and this book is where it all starts. I flew through this book, there’s such a good plot point and twists that I didn’t even think was going to happen, I really enjoyed getting to know Darrow at the start and then I enjoyed seeing him make friends in the institute and now he changed tactics when he realised the people around him didn’t respond well to commands, so he started using freedom and friendship. I love the friendships that Darrow made from the start creating the Howlers by taking the underdogs and teaching them how to hunt and survive, with the help of the OG howlers Sevro and Cassius. 

I also really liked that the book moved on and didn’t drag in places it shouldn’t have, the start of this book is a very slow pace but it’s needed to be able to understand what’s happening in this book. In this book my favourite characters were Darrow, Sevro, Mustang and Cassius.