The Forgetting Moon
Ratings34
Average rating4
Four stars
Oh boy back again not finishing series and starting a new one.
I thought this chonker of a book was a pretty good book one in a series. Lots of povs and a story that feels like it wants to subvert my expectations so I’m curious to see where it goes.
Only knocks would be the character that felt most like the main protagonist was probably my least favorite pov. I also hope to see more of the world in book two because book one takes place in essentially two places
The twisting narrative keeps you guessing. I hope this maintains the momentum across the subsequent books in the trilogy...
The best fleshed-out and real-feeling characters (as persons) i've read in decades; good (ok) writing; but unoriginal plot and characters (as types) and situations and interactions, all already read many times before (mainly in WoT and ASOIAF.)
One of the POVs (the princesses sisters) also bored me immensely, but this is subjective, just me being a male and in my 40s (so i couldn't empathise neither by gender nor by age).
While I did enjoy this book very much, I could definitely see all of the criticisms this book was getting all this time. I'm not the type of a reader that picks up on the problematic things in the book, I'm picking it up to enjoy it not to look if the author has enough representation in it. But the way every female was described was so overly sexual that I was unable to block it out. Every one of them had a description of the size of their breasts. Every one. To couple with that the fact that the plot kinda lost some steam at the halfway mark, and my rating kinda plummeted. I was honestly thinking this was gonna be a high 4 or a 5 star for me until the halfway point.
I'll probably still pick up the second book in the series to see if the writing improved because I really did enjoy this world and politics.
Really Good
Really enjoyed this, some good twists and turns and great action sequences! The world is very interesting and can't wait to get to book 2
4.25 / the action/gore in this story is definitely some of the best i've ever read. i also really loved the interconnections of the characters and past vs. present that were explored the further and further the story went. i did predict a lot of the twists but i love being right so that doesn't rlly bother me. the reason it‘s not solid 5 stars from me is because i wasn't attached to that many characters. Tala and Nail's perspectives were the only ones i enjoyed every time they came up. and there's a couple POVs i could personally go without. but, overall, the world building, plot lines, and mysteries introduced in this first book are so good! i‘m very excited to continue in The Blackest Heart!
Idk how this book is so underrated and barely has any reviews. This one of my favorite books I've ever read. If you like Tad Williams or George Martin then you'll appreciate this book because there are so many similarities in the characters but the story is so unique in its own way. The story is told in a multi character first person format which is my favorite style. It follows Nail who is a bastard apprentice who is trying to figure out who is parents are but nobody will tell him. Tala, who's the youngest sister of the new tyrant king, is dealing with a mystery of her cousin being poisoned and must follow the clues to save her life. Jondralyne who is the older sister must deal with her brother's cruelty at court and secretly plans to usurp the crown herself. All the characters must come together and find out that their lives are following a 1,000 year prophecy but are they the true Warrior Angels?
