C10
Man this one was boring. Nothing happens for 3/4 of the book, then a whole lot of talking where everything gets answered without a second thought, and things unwind pretty easily for Harry and his friends.
I hope it gets better in the next books because I won't read another as bland as this one
This looks like a teen TV-show adapted into a book. Everything is too shallow and easy-going.
I was disappointed. The first two books of the series were more interesting. This was supposed to be the conclusion of the trilogy but I find a lot of things aren't explained or do not make any sense.
My biggest turn-off is that the better part of the series was about fighting Kez, and all of a sudden we do a 180 and have to worry about a god who wants to be prime minister. ???
The whole Brude thing feels out of place and I can't work any sense around it. Why would such a powerful god care about human elections or bother with military tactics ?
In book 1 and 2 I was under the impression that the disappearance of tons of black powder was the only visible part of a really big problem but it was solved very easily. It feels like the Adran army barely felt the shortage.
Most of the characters are all-powerful and are plot-protected against death. This is never good.
What exactly are gods ? Brude says they are only powerful mages but then how can they “disappear in cosmos” or get summoned like Kresimir was ?
What happened to Kresimir at the end of the story ?
Are there no other Predeii beside Julene ?
How are wardens made and how is it “disgusting” ?
It feels like half of the series was about warring with Kez but in the end we barely know anything about them. A Kez-person point of view would have brought more insight and depth to the story. Instead we have Nila, who has no other role than being a convenient over-powered mage. I feel her point of view could have been removed from the series without hurting the story in any way, since Jakob has no role to play.
Taniel and Ka-poel were the favorite characters of the second book. Their relationship had a nice evolution and it is a shame we do not see more of them in the 3rd book.
Instead the 3rd book focuses on the relationship between Tamas and Taniel which goes from “My father hates me” to “Dad I love you”, even though father and son barely see each other throughout the series. This felt forced and unnatural.
I really enjoyed book 1 and 2. The intricate relations between gods, Predeii, Privileged, powder mages and other sorceries seemed very complex and I wanted to know more about them. Taniel and Ka-poel were good characters and I looked forward to what would happen to them. I was wondering what big scheme was hiding behind the Kez war and if maybe it had something to do with a royalist uprise.
Book 3 did not fulfill my expectations.
TLDR :
Needlessly long.
Main character is a distaster.
Story is buried under boring filler.
Harry's POV is both boring and horrifying. We are stuck with pointless issues for 80% of the book and for the remaining time are witness to Harry's serious anger issues. He's had no character development for ages and is still unable to use his brain or any form of reasoning. He keeps disrespecting his friends and is unable to manage his emotions at 15. He repeatedly depicts violent behaviour that should not be acceptable in a children's or teenager's book series.
Harry is a side character in this whole story. For some reason the author thought best to use only Harry's POV and plague the reader with useless trivialities instead of giving them the meat of the story (war going on? secret organization? better focus on exams and mean teacher).
This book should have been titled “Harry Potter and the Inquisitor”, because that is all it is about.
As in the previous books, we are suddenly woken up from trivialities with a bunch of action we barely understand (wtf prophecy?) only to be spoon-fed the whole plot in a block of monologue.
The worst of the series so far.
You know there is a character imbalance when in a war council nobody is able to think of a plan so everyone naturally turns to Darrow.
Yet nobody blames him when he does not stick to said plan or manages to sacrifice most of his elite force because he didn't want to kill an innocent little girl.
The amount of friendship power and trust bullshit is naruto-level.
The pacing is very slow, had me bored most of the book.
Characters felt better in the first book.
What the hell is a RipWing?
OK read if you're not interested in seeing the main plot progress.
Like if you're coming back from work and want to read something easy.
Read 10% and dropped.
Too many characters and names, writing is too fast : actions and decisions feel unnatural (Corban suddenly going into the woods he's not been in years to find and rescue a conveniently trapped wolf using a rope he was just conveniently given ?) and characters very generic.
Seems aimed at young readers.
Good german training
Sadly i'm not 12 anymore so story and characters feel a bit lacking
J'ai arrêté ma souffrance au bout de 300 pages. On pourrait résumer cette expérience à “pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué”.
L'univers avait pourtant du potentiel. Dommage que l'auteur n'ait pas eu envie de le faire partager au lecteur. En effet, le texte est une suite incessante de phrases inutilement compliquées et tortueuses, formées de mots parfois inventés et de notions pseudo-scientifiques pour lesquelles on a rarement des explications.
J'ai eu l'impression que l'auteur s'était donné pour défi de faire rentrer le plus de mots différents dans son ouvrage. On passe du registre soutenu, moyennâgeux, à contemporain, familier, vulgaire sans transition aucune, en ajoutant des anglicismes de temps en temps.
Ajoutons à cela le fait que le point de vue passe sans cesse d'un personnage à l'autre, parfois pour une seule ligne. Le problème est que ces changements de points de vue sont représentés par des symboles (parce qu'écrire le nom du personnage narrateur aurait été trop simple et logique sans doute), dont l'index est en début de livre. Pas pratique sur un livre classique, carrément pénible sur kindle. Je cherche encore la valeur ajoutée de cette pratique.
En bref, j'ai eu l'impression d'avoir affaire à un texte qu'on étudierait en cours de français : à devoir décortiquer chaque mot afin d'en chercher le sens caché. C'est très vite usant.
On se demande même si ce texte excessivement maniéré ne serait pas un moyen de masquer le manque de consistance de la trame scénaristique, qui est lente et linéaire.
J'ai grande peine à comprendre comment ce texte peut être considéré comme un “classique immanquable” ou une référence de la SF française.
Things go too smoothly to be entertaining. No real problem or tension until the far end of the book
