Sara

I cannot deal with how much I loved these books

I think I've never read a book so full of words and so empty of everything else. What was this? I almost DNFed a couple of times, and I wish I had. What a waste of time.

Pretentious, using grandiloquent discussions of philosophy that added absolutely nothing to the plot or the book or the development of the characters.

It felt like nothing advanced. In page 400 you are still in the same place as in page 1. This could have been so good, the idea of betraying one of your companions for the sake of belonging to such a world changing institution. But the way it is written and paced, you don't even care. The institution is barely explained, a glorified library, they spend the whole year there doing random research on their own, without a clear goal and without the need to agree to something as big as murder because they need to be there. They don't. The stakes are so low it's stupid for them to even think on such drastic measures.

And there is zero interpersonal relations. They aren't friends, they don't like each other, they are terrible people who spend most of their time on their own or banging each other without rhyme or reason. You don't cheer for them nor suffer for them, because there is no substance there.

I won't even talk about the magic system or the world building because the author clearly didn't think about it enough for me to talk about it. I mean, there is nothing. No structure, no sense.

This book almost put me in a reading slump. I like complicated books, I like smart characters, I like stories that make me think. This tried to be that, but was none of it.

This was campy and fun and I had a good time and it would have been 4 stars probably BUT.


SPOILERS BUT NEEDED SPOILERS



The dog is killed and it's cruel and it gets remembered more than once and I am weak and that's a line that messes everything up for me.

2 stars because the writing is good, but lords wth was this. I love smart books, I love satire, I love this kind of setup and plot, but this was insufferable. Others have put it more eloquently than me, but yeah. Abhorrent.

Pero esto cómo narices lo esta petando tanto? Es la história más mediocre y plana de la vida.

This book is unnecessary (and really bad)

The more I sit thinking of this book, the less I like it. From 3 to 2 stars, and mostly because the beginning is excellent and Merrick exists. The rest of the book feels like it was written by a newbie with no idea how to resolve plot points.

Oh, and Hazel is insufferable.

Lords, wth was this. 400+ pages of nothing, with the actually worst main character in history. Avoid it.

Sadly not as good as Godkiller. Not bad, but I felt like a lot of things happened but nothing really happened, you know? This book could have been half the number of pages and be much better. So much filler.

The pacing was annoying, the super short chapters don't work when they kill the pacing of the action. The found family aspect of Godkiller is gone. Inara is annoying af.

Not bad, just kind of a disappointment after the breath of fresh air that was Godkiller.

Sometimes a trilogy is not needed, and a duology would have been perfect. This is one of those times.

The plot of this book can barely hold it together, but oh was this a fun read. It's exactly what I needed, easy and fun.

I wanted this book to last forever.

I love these series, I'm re-reading them after years of losing its track! Lynn writes fluidly, so easy to get hooked in her characters and their happenings. Entertaining fantasy with fantastic characters.

This book has rioted my emotions to a point I am unable to write properly about it. I loved it. I hated it at times too, with a passion, just because it has made me feel SO MUCH. I can't say more. It was beyond what I expected, in all senses.

I really enjoyed it!! Not a boring moment, charismatic characters, well written action and amazing plot with surprising twists. I am looking forward to get the second book now!

Worst one by now in the series.

Did this book have no editors? What a writing chaos.

9

I terribly enjoyed this. It gets you caught up from the firts pages on, not being able to stop until you learn more, understand more. I don't know about the ending but yeah, all in all I enjoyed it a lot.

4.5

I have a new favourite book. This was gorgeous.

I loved this. Funny and simple and complicated at the same time. Arthur's ideas of war speak to me at high levels. I loved the political complexity and the human morality described in here. I missed Merlyn though, and some parts were certainly too slow. Still, beautiful, heart moving book. I understand why so many people love it.

this was extremely entertaining and I even found myself cracking a smile or softly laughing from time to time. Absurd and genius and simply a very welcomed book.

I can't deal with this. I can't. I need more, I need to know what happens, HOW CAN WE WAIT NOW?

Well, this author is clearly not for me. I barely made it out alive of Achille's song, now this one bored me to death too. I don't know why, because I adore greek mythology and I've always had, but... she makes her characters so plain? Maybe it's the first person pov or something, but it's like they have zero personality, and all the changes and evolution they have you learn becajse they tell you, not because you see it.

Circe is good now she's bad now she's an amazing witch now she's this or that. You only get this sense because she thinks about herself this or that way. Dunno, I really don't enjoy it. Not for me 100%. I won't try anymore.

I finished this today but I don't want it to count for the 2018 challenge, so I'm changing the date.

It took me way too long to finish this book, so we can say I didn't really enjoy it. It's not bad per se, the idea is brilliant, I just got lost too many times in its execution, I think? Plus, I disliked the main character so I couldn't get invested in his story.

Not a bad book, just not for me.