Firstly, this book is bonkers. Secondly, Sarah J. Maas is not the author for me, a 32 year old person. The prose is out of control overwritten to impress and be MEANINGFUL. The characters pair up like lobsters and it is overwhelmingly heterosexual, which just makes me roll my eyes. Really, all these characters you just so happened to create just happen to find their soulmate or whatever and get together by the end? Really? This is the same thing that annoyed me out of […]
It’s a love/hate relationship.
Despite its numerous flaws, it seems I actually like this series quite a bit now. Sigh. A lot of the problems I had with this series are still there, but if I’m going to keep reading it, at some point I’m going to have to acknowledge that no one is holding a gun to my head and making me do that, and that some part of me is enjoying it enough to push past all the stuff that annoys me. At that point, it just […]
I liked this one???
Honestly, I did not expect to like this book. It’s only logical. I assumed that I would have the same reaction to it that I had for the first three books in the series, which was basically to be entertained, but also half the time I’m rolling my eyes at the predictable plot twists, the shallow characters, the tell-not-show and idiom-filled writing (a symptom of weak worldbuilding). I just didn’t find any of it particularly compelling, especially Celaena, the central character. I found her to […]
I liked this better two months ago.
This book has definitely soured on me since I finished it in May, which is a shame since I am quite literally about to start the third book tonight. This series for me has turned out so far to be a shoddily written, cliché-packed, predictable behemoth with an uninteresting not-as-smart-or-talented-as-she-or-the-author-thinks-she-is protagonist. It’s very much a yo-yo book for me. One minute I’ll be rolling my eyes so hard I’m about to sprain my optical nerve, the next Maas writes something genuinely interesting. Also, both books […]
Get it together, Maas
At the end of Queen of Shadows, the King of Adarlan has been killed, Prince Dorian is going to be the king, Aelin and her court are on their way to Terrasen to take her crown, Kaltain has blown up the dungeons of Morath, and Manon has rescued Elide. For some reason, I felt like the story was over. As it happens, it wasn’t and that annoyed me. I read Empire of Storms under a cloud of annoyance. I probably could have shaken it off […]
For a legendary assassin, she spends a whole lot of time NOT killing people
3.5 stars I put off reading this for the longest time, mainly because I figured I’d have to go back and read the first one, Throne of Glass, again to remember what happened, what with having read that way back in early 2013. But then the lovely Narfna tipped me off about this website, which allowed me to quickly recap all the stuff I only vaguely remembered, and I no longer had an excuse not to read it and it fit into my Monthly Keyword […]