Despite its numerous flaws, it seems I actually like this series quite a bit now. Sigh. A lot of the problems I had with this series are still there, but if I’m going to keep reading it, at some point I’m going to have to acknowledge that no one is holding a gun to my head and making me do that, and that some part of me is enjoying it enough to push past all the stuff that annoys me. At that point, it just […]
I liked this one???
Honestly, I did not expect to like this book. It’s only logical. I assumed that I would have the same reaction to it that I had for the first three books in the series, which was basically to be entertained, but also half the time I’m rolling my eyes at the predictable plot twists, the shallow characters, the tell-not-show and idiom-filled writing (a symptom of weak worldbuilding). I just didn’t find any of it particularly compelling, especially Celaena, the central character. I found her to […]
I liked this better two months ago.
This book has definitely soured on me since I finished it in May, which is a shame since I am quite literally about to start the third book tonight. This series for me has turned out so far to be a shoddily written, cliché-packed, predictable behemoth with an uninteresting not-as-smart-or-talented-as-she-or-the-author-thinks-she-is protagonist. It’s very much a yo-yo book for me. One minute I’ll be rolling my eyes so hard I’m about to sprain my optical nerve, the next Maas writes something genuinely interesting. Also, both books […]
Get it together, Maas
At the end of Queen of Shadows, the King of Adarlan has been killed, Prince Dorian is going to be the king, Aelin and her court are on their way to Terrasen to take her crown, Kaltain has blown up the dungeons of Morath, and Manon has rescued Elide. For some reason, I felt like the story was over. As it happens, it wasn’t and that annoyed me. I read Empire of Storms under a cloud of annoyance. I probably could have shaken it off […]