Mia
How refreshing to have a protagonist that's 30 years old and a bit awkward! And the humour was great too!
Can I get my own taynix, please? Seriously. I want one.
I really liked FM as a main character in this novella. It feels a little more YA than Sanderson's solitary writing does, but it wasn't jarringly different. More romance, which isn't my thing, but it wasn't the focus of the story so it was alright.
I usually never leave a “review” on books I haven't read yet, but it made me incredibly sad that this book has been double 1-starred looong before its release (it's one person having made two accounts just to 1-star a book still being written, how pathetic is that?!) so I just wanted to say – in case Laura Sebastian is ever on here – that I'm really excited about this book and can't wait to read it! Keep up the good work, Laura!
This was incredibly gross and weird. It's like Wayward Children meets Stranger Things, or something like that.
I was SO into it for the first part, with the bookish heroine and the trials, then the love triangle bit in the middle part of the book made me consider it a 3-star, but then the end happened and bumped it up a star. Excited for the second book now!
Y'all I'm not... I can't... I am not ready to relive my dark past as a twihard. But I can't NOT read it??? Not into that coverrrr
Jeg syntes det var genialt å blande gammeldags 1800-talls dialog og skrivemåte (for her er Lia fortelleren, boka er skrevet i jeg-form) med nymotens fantasy, og forfatteren har gjort en veldig bra jobb. Historien er spennende, og til tider sånn at man får frysninger nedover ryggen. Inn i dette er det også blandet kjærlighet, vennskap, dramatikk og tragedie, noe som gir boka god driv framover og den holder fast på leserens oppmerksomhet. Boka er på nesten 350 sider, og jeg fant meg selv sittende og lese hundre sider om gangen, bare for å få vite hvordan det gikk. Forfatteren er kjempeflink til å skildre og beskrive, og det gjør alt veldig levende og lett å leve seg inn i. Og når hun i tillegg bruker litt gammeldags språk, slik som de snakket og ordla seg på 1800-tallet gjorde det veldig enkelt å forestille seg hovedpersonene med gammeldagse klær og i et veldig annerledes samfunn fra i dag. Gleder meg utrolig mye til neste bok, for denne boka sluttet på et spennende tidspunkt! Veldig god bok som jeg anbefaler folk å lese; selv om den kanskje helst passer til litt eldre tenåringer/unge voksne på grunn av det litt gammeldagse språket.
I really love this middle grade series. And this third book was quite possibly my favourite of them all.
This was one of my most anticipated releases of 2020 so I'm really sad I didn't enjoy it very much.
First of all, the synopsis does not make it seem like it, but this is an urban fantasy (not my favourite genre at all). So the book was not at all what I expected. When I started reading, I thought I had picked up the wrong book by accident and I checked and re-checked that I was actually reading “Seasons of the Storm”.
Second, the plot is confusing, the characters are rather one-dimensional and I didn't feel engaged in the romance. Now, I'm not a romance fan in general, but I can enjoy it if the story surrounding it is good and the characters are likeable. It just didn't do it for me in this book.
I considered DNF'ing, but decided I should give it a full go since it was so high on my anticipated releases... Oh well, I've finished it now. I won't be reading the sequel.
This book had so many things I love in it!
• Sister relationship
• Ancient Greece fantasy setting
• A pantheon of interesting gods
• Magical artefacts
I really enjoyed it, I only wish we got to learn more about the gods and the artefacts than we did. I realise it's hard to go deep with a YA standalone, but that aspect of the story was super interesting to me. Otherwise the setting felt really atmospheric and I felt like it was easy to envision the places being described.
