Tyler Sparr
What a beautifully written book! While there were some parts that didn’t work for me and others that felt a little wasted, the overall plot kept me gripped throughout and wondering just how it was all going to connect. Wrapping up a mystery is the downfall of so many books but this was handled quite nicely. Overall, a really good read though I’m not sure I’ll read any of the others.
This book has a pretty fun, easy to follow plot. Not my favorite thing ever but it kept me fairly engaged during a long drive. I am absolutely not sold on Wil Wheaton as a narrator though. Some horrendous accent work and barely distinguishable voices made this fairly tough to understand at times. Will definitely be staying away from anything further that he narrates.
This is by no means a bad entry in the series, but it does drag on just a bit more than others. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that digging into the roots of magic comes with a lot of explanation of magical theory. This is a very hard magic system and it shows. As the series starts to draw to a close, there’s just ao many moving pieces and different agendas that I have no idea how the series is gonna end, but I’m really looking forward to finding out.
This book was a bit of an enigma for me. Intellectually I know a lot happened, but it didn’t necessarily feel like a lot was happening. That being said, I still really enjoyed it and finished in really just two sessions. A lot of plot is still being setup and I desperately wish the author had a faster release cycle, but still a very interesting and unique take on things. Looking forward to more.
I’m not sure I’ve ever read a character piece of such depth and make no mistake, this is a character piece through and through. While there is certainly some action and developing plot lines, the main focus is on who Fitz is and how he fits into this world. If the whole trilogy is like this first one, I’m very excited for the ride.
This series finished off just as strong as it started. I think the payoff was ultimately worth it though I would understand if people struggled to read all 2000ish pages of the trilogy to get there. There’s also a couple pacing issues that left some really interesting storylines getting less page time than some others, but overall a really great book and a very compelling series.
While not overly amazing or an example of excellent prose, Murtagh does a great job of recapturing the sense of adventure and hitting on the nostalgia aspects of the original series. Fans of the Eragon books will definitely find lots to enjoy throughout. Whoever thinks this could be read standalone without having read the original series is crazy though. Overall a fun, easy read that’s a good time throughout.
There's just really nothing not to like about this book. It's got some problems and I'm certainly not qualified to know if the science actually makes sense, but it's presented in such an easily digestible way that makes it all so fun. This time I listened to the audiobook which was really good, but I'm not sure I fully buy into the "it's better than reading it" narrative. Overall, just as fun as I remembered!
It took me a lot longer to get into this book compared to the first one, but overall this book goes hard. While portions of it are a little predictable/tropey, those same plot points are just as often turned on their heads. Genuinely no idea how the trilogy is going to end, but the whole thing is so far very much worth the read.
This was fine. It’s a decent enough plot with some interesting stuff going on, but it definitely felt like they expected you to know who a lot of these characters were and be excited for them. There were so many scenes where it was like watching a Marvel movie when they throw in some cameos of random characters to make an appearance later. I don’t regret reading it, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re already a fan of League of Legends which maybe should have been obvious.
I honestly had no idea this was the last book in the series and I was pretty disappointed to learn that. It’s probably good I didn’t know though or else I probably would have enjoyed this book a lot less. It felt like this could have gone on for quite a bit longer and the ending just felt rushed. I like what was done, but I could have stood for a lot more description. Overall a fun, readable series though.
I don’t know if others were aware, but I definitely expected this to finish the series off. Maybe if I didn’t have that expectation going into the end, I would have enjoyed it a bit more rather than constantly trying to figure out how everything was going to come together. Overall, a solid entry. Better than the others for me as we’re now mostly done world building and into the plot the whole way through.
