RiskyFish

This book is obnoxious

Revisado: 09-06-24

This book really doesn't translate well to audiobook despite Tim Gerard Reynolds's best efforts. The long lists of stars are just tedious. Every single interaction is interrupted by a slew of experience narrative. Exposition is clumsy - the main character is dumb as a plot device for the exposition not relegated to literally just being listed as tooltips. Prepare to be enveloped in second-hand cringe at references to decades old meme references and lazy fight scenes with no real danger or point (other than even more opportunities for lists).

I'm not sure what agee group this book is for. The plot is childish and the writing feels crass for the sake of being crass in several places. It feels like it was written in the voice of the "how do you do, fellow kids" meme. I think it's actually for the lolcatz crowd though, truthfully. If you're that, you will probably love it.

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The Afterword explains a lot

Revisado: 08-15-24

I fell in love really hard with the original Cycle books. The last 4 books in this series completely soured me on the whole saga. These books have been meandering loops of arriving at a place, learn there's forbidden kind of magic, learn forbidden kind of magic, and then somehow anime style be a savant at new kind of magic. The fighting is tedious. The villain is comically one dimensional. All the goodwill earned by the first few books evaporates every time the same story is repeated in the last 4-6 books. I finished this book out of spite. Plot hole ridden, repetitive, predictable waste of time.

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I'm not sure who this book is for

Revisado: 05-22-24

The tone is dark but lacks depth/complexity. The themes are late YA maybe but the writing is very YA. The characters are cliche exhaggerations. I just kind of was bored and not terribly engaged or surprised.

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Very Moving

Revisado: 05-20-24

I feel like this book was written exactly for me exactly for right now. it's beautiful

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captivating and devastating

Revisado: 05-03-24

This is one of the best novels I've ever read. The heart in this book is amazing and the writing is beautifully illustrating.

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Forced Romance got in the way

Revisado: 07-10-23

I thought it was going to be a fairly intriguing murder mystery/thriller, but the obvious forced relationship was just painful. The female protagonist is angry and short-sighted to the point of being boring and the male protagonist is so mind numbingly clueless and malleable that you just don't care about the things they care about. it's difficult to relate to them because they're caricatures not characters.

and the big mystery reveal is simply that. There's never any clever detective work. Just endless bickering punctuated by bland physical pining until the bad guy does a full Scooby-Doo plot reveal. No work was required by either protagonist to catch the bad guy at all. So if they're not relatable and they don't solve anything, why do they even exist??

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"Have you tried just not being sad?" as a book

Revisado: 04-11-23

The whole setup of this book is that Nesta is dealing with her trauma in an unhealthy way, but she NEVER seems to actually take the steps to deal with it healthily, she's just forced into revelations all but about one time. The smut is unbearably bad. The whole plot of the series is "yada yada yada'd" for the sake of repetitive filler. This book managed to suck any remaining life or vibrancy out of the characters of the series.

awful. I finished this out of spite.

as for performance, it's largely fine, not great. but what the crap with whatever Az's voice was.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 02-03-18

It's nice to have found an original idea for a story- especially one so well performed!

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ok, not great

Revisado: 12-02-17

I've heard you have to trudge through the first FOUR books before the series gets good. I'm not sure I'm really up for that after this start.

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disjointed, but very funny

Revisado: 04-09-17

This book kind of jumps all over the place chronologically, but it's funny, sweet, and worth sticking with to the end.

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