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Didn't finish

Revisado: 01-07-24

I got bored with this very quickly and couldn't bring myself to finish it.

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I'd do 3.5 stars if I could

Revisado: 12-02-23

The setting is interesting. The story felt a little all over the place. It spent a good deal of time setting scenes and spent little time on action scenes so it seemed to jump around in an odd way, kinda like a comic book, or tv show.
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The story has a "not ending", meaning that it ends in a way the sets up a sequel and barely resolves the main plot.

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Weakest title in the DFZ literary universe.

Revisado: 11-12-23

I love Rachel Aaron's DFZ universe, so it bothers me to have to say that this book was a bit tedious to get through. The overall story was okay. There was a little too much time "setting the scene" as this book is clearly meant to set up the next books in the Trilogy and feel that hurts the story in the long run. All of the other DFZ stories felt pretty self-contained and had definitive conclusions. Between the introduction of Fae magic and Blood magic, there was a lot of exposition. Also, the MC was very annoying to deal with, she spent most of the story acting like a whipped dog and then out of nowhere gains the confidence to defy a Man who spent years "teaching her place". It's more of a setting I love so much that I've used it in a D&D campaign, so I'm going to rag on it too much, but Rachel can do better.
On another note, the audio on this one was weird and lacked the professional quality of other titles by Rachel Aaron.

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It maybe my imagination...

Revisado: 10-15-23

It may be my imagination but I get the impression that the main character is a little dumber and less tactically minded in this book versus the first book. James much like his father seems to like beating the Hell out of their Main characters and leaving them in a worse state of mind than they started the story with.

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Predictable but fun enough.

Revisado: 10-05-23

A bit of a slow starter, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to finish this book but I powered through it and didn't feel as though my time was wasted. I had a few issues with the Slavery subject matter and the cliche I'm a slave owner, but I don't treat them like dirt so I'm a good person character, but this isn't a book for deep thought. if you're the kind of person who is capable of shutting your brain off and just having fun this is a decent story. A lot of the plot elements are cliche, but not deal-breaking.

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Slow and dull

Revisado: 09-09-23

I couldn't get past the second story. I typically listen while working and between the boring and unnecessarily long sections explaining the genre of Cosmic horror and the slow monotone readings of the stories, I found myself about to nod off.

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Really annoyed with this one

Revisado: 11-28-21

Overall I wasn't really a fan of this series, but I stuck with it, cause I'm reading the other books set in this Universe. I was hoping it would fill in some of the gaps from the other books, and to a point it did, but this series felt very rushed and ends on a very unfortunate cliffhanger.

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disclaimer: I did get this book for "free".

Revisado: 05-24-20

I loved this book. As a D&D player, I loved this story and the Characters. The "Hero" Yui is a clever out of the box thinker and I can really appreciate that.

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Meh

Revisado: 05-09-20

At time of writing, I was unable to finish this book.
I listened to roughly 2hrs of it and I really had to struggle to get that far. This is a book that really would benefit from a full cast (at least one female and male member min) cause I hate when they have a person try to do a voice of the opposite sex; worse when the only voices that person can do are Cockney British accents. The Author made the main character very sheltered and ignorant of the world as a way to excuse constant Exposition. the main character is a young "Ork" girl, who was meant to be sacrificed to a God. She ofcourse has doubts (who wouldn't? ), and conveniently a dashing wizard happens to be there and convinces her to leave with him and become his personal assassin, spy, etc.

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Interesting but felt mishandled

Revisado: 07-05-19

I found this title on Reddit and decided to give it a try. It was very different. The premise of the book is that people who commit violent crimes and feels extremely guilty about it gains an Animal companion, that can cause them develop a special power. There's a lot of expositional parts, and the writer(s) felt the need to type out a lot of things that could have been shortened or hinted at, but didn't; so of course the narrator and run time tends to drag on a bit. I was initially pulled in by the the very premise of the book, but as it went on the holes kept being slid over: the main character often referenced her brother dying as a result of something she did, that somehow resulted in her being roped in to an accessory to murder charge, but it's not fully explained how, or why she was responsible for it. On the whole: the concept was a solid idea that needed a little more proofreading, and maybe a few drafts.

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