Rachel B

While beautifully illustrated the story didn’t bring to much to the table for me. I didn’t feel connected to the characters and throughout I was only continuing for the illustrations.

I do think the story could be really good for some people, I just wasn’t who this was written for. I do think the art style is spectacular and even though I didn’t enjoy the story the illustrations left me in awe.

I can’t say I really liked this book but I also didn’t hate it. I think this is extremely character driven which is nice and all but I think for me as a reader I enjoy more imagery in stories like these. I am definitely more into a first person account experiencing the fantasy world, getting it from like third person feels less interesting.

Another big factor was I didn’t care at all about what was happening until like 30% and even then I felt uninterested in reading more the entire time. I thought the plot was good and the characters good but that’s kinda it. Like this book just didn’t hit.

I can definitely see why people like it though. I won’t be continuing with the series nor will I buy another Sanderson book~ he is not an author I wish to support. If it weren’t for this being my book club book I wouldn’t have read it.

A friend recommended this to me and oh man this was a fun read! It is definitely dated with the representation the characters have, one lady in all of the code breakers feels inaccurate since women have had a pretty good standing as code breakers since wwii.

Aside from that though it read like a movie and was pretty comical throughout. I would recommend this definitely for people who are interested in coding/ cyber related dramas.

I started this years ago when the hype first came but wasn’t all to into it at the time at page like 150ish. Recently though a friend picked it up and I wanted to buddy read with them which brings me to here ><

The writing felt forced / not great. The plot felt extremely predictable, the suspense at the end does give me enough drive to read the rest of the series past the next two ( only because I already own them ).

I felt no drive or excitement when reading this, and again only am gonna read the next two because I own them already.

The writing is amazing, the plot is amazing, the ending amazing, everything was so freaking perfect about this book!

The entire beginning I was extremely confused and in like the last 20-30 % it was all clicking and I love when books are written like this because I makes me want to reread everything instantly ><

Low key need fanfic of some character 🫣

The first book Gideon the Ninth was amazing as was this so these are must reads in my opinion!!