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Dear main character, please learn to have more self-respect and to view yourself with more self-worth. Loser-jackasses can look like they're fine to date when you're desperate, so maybe try working on improving yourself instead of wanting to settle with whatever person comes along.
Was in the mood for a light, hopeful romantic comedy that didn't take itself too seriously nor have too much melodrama and this fit the bill perfectly. Lovely and fun.
I had high hopes for this book (no pun intended), but this book is just word vomit. It consists of the author going on and on and on about various topics, rambling almost, having tons of info dumps – even in dialogue. Hello? People don't actually talk that way. Ugh.
Sometimes the only thing that keeps me from drowning completely in a sea of darkness is knowing that someone else understand this, that there is someone else who experiences the infinite black ocean with me. Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the thought that I am not as alone as my mind wants me to believe.
Wow. Cliopher Mdang and his Radiancy had me riveted for days, and now that the story is over, I'm so incredibly sad. Easily the best book I've read this year. This book is beautifully written and has catapulted itself to becoming my top favorite book of the last 3 years, at least ... dare I say maybe my favorite book ever? You have no idea how sad I felt when I saw that this was a standalone (as stated in the book's backmatter) ... and how absolutely delighted I am when I see there's other stories in the series shown here on Goodreads. OMG, I'm so happy!
I can't wait to read the author's other books as well.
Why. Just, why. A billion pages of yawning backstory/flashbacks, 50 pages of actual stuff furthering the plot from Book 1. I am so disappointed. I won't be bothering with book 3 :(
Every character sounds the same, and they all have the same vague, roundabout way of talking that's really quite annoying. I'd bought the entire series on the back of such strong recommendations from others, but to be frank, this is disappointing. The world-building is ok; the characters just let the whole thing down.
Laurence and Toby are just so damn sweet together. To be honest, I don't like age gaps because there's always risk of manipulation and abuse by the older person, but ... well, this is fiction and not real life and since we can see exactly what's going on in everyone's heads, things are all good. This is a sweet love story and I'm glad I went along for the ride. I've read 3 books by Alexis Hall now and I'm going to get every other thing he's written because he's fast becoming one of my favorite “comfort read” authors.
It was an interesting story, I guess, but in no shape or form does it live up to the hype that's being generated by Tor and certain readers. I came away from it pretty disappointed. The world building is lacking, it was tiresome to be in Gideon's head, and the so-called competition/trials thing to be SuperNecro was a complete let-down.
The best thing about this book is the cover. The first few chapters made me want to give up on this multiple times. A number of character names are beyond ridiculous, by the way, but I think the thing that tripped me up most is that this book reads like an urban fantasy with the same oh-I-am-so-edgy-hear-me-snark, smart-mouthed main character. It's like the author began writing this as an urban fantasy but then decided to change tack and try dressing it up to look and act like a more serious fantasy story. (The juvenile edginess of the main character didn't help matters – I began to like the story a lot more when she was forced to stop talking.) Also ... I feel like it was written in first person POV, which then was changed to third so it wouldn't scare away readers who hate first person perspective.
Really enjoyed the cultural exchange... Some parts I wish were more detailed and some I felt went on too long.
Wish it wasn't a cliffhanger since we're already 4-5 years out with no further book... Also still dislike Frisha intensely.
Pages and pages written that detailed torture, and then a hurried 2 paragraphs or even less at the end summarizing events that would have been better written over 50-80 pages? What a waste.
1. I wish we got to spend more time reading about Alfgyfa's life and training during her apprenticeship with Tin, instead of just having seven years basically go by from one sentence to another.
2. I wish the ending wasn't so damn rushed. It felt like all the threadplots from 300+ pages got resolved in a single short paragraph or something. Felt unsatisfying, like the authors just wanted to just get this book over with.
Beautiful story with a main character who grows immensely, discovering so many things about herself. Being someone with a similar upbringing and character, this novel was painful to read at times but also showed me that we are not alone in the darkness, no matter what the shadows might try to say.
I found it incredibly hypocritical that the changelings were all, “OMG the Psy think we're all just dumb animals” and then they turned around and were like, “Yeah all Psy are psychopaths and we'll just kill everybody because that's what all of you deserve (even though it's only the serial killer that's killing people).” Though ... I guess it's sadly accurate how the real world works, because people are like this. Freaking sucks.
This ended up being a bit too “woo woo” for me – not to mention I got absolutely sick of reading about how awesome she thinks her parents are. I dunno mate, reading about the reasons you think your parents are cool just makes me see them as assholes who don't think rules apply to them. So yeah. This was a miss for me.
Not as entertaining as I hoped, payoff wasn't worth the slog. It was just like reading a list of events happening one after, over and over. Should've been exciting, but felt pointless.
Part of me wants to give this one less star for its unsatisfying ending – and also the fact that the more interesting parts of the story are hardly explored.