Hark! A Vagrant
By: Kate Beaton
My Rating:
5 / 5 Stars
My Review:
Possibly the best and wittiest book of its kind / genre.
More detailed review to come
<3
A MUST READ ~ if you are a lit nerd, like myself.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
The Burning Sky By: Sherry Thomas
The Burning Sky
By: Sherry Thomas
Rating:
3.5 Stars
Review:
Let me begin that I did thoroughly enjoy this read. It does have a very huge "Harry Potter" influence behind it...so some aspects seemed painfully unoriginal (at least to me, a bleeding hard Harry Potter fanatic). For instance the double world (based mainly in the UK during the 1800s) of the "mages" and "nonmages" ...it seems very lazy to not come up with a quirky synonym for "nonmage" humans..At least in HP we had muggles <3 However, at least it was a timeframe that is not "today"; rather 200 years ago.
Some magic was also eerily similar, such as "vaulting" (ie Apparition spell) and "illegal spells" (ie Unforgivable curses) etc. ~it goes on a tad, but in Burning Sky, there are variation of "mages": elemental, mind, healing etc.
But those were just the small, almost insignificant details, that had me not too submerged in what is practically a very good and creative YA fantasy.
I did really like Iolanthe Seaborne; she had a very heavy character development and, being a biased female, i love how she began very naive and weak, than became resistant and fierce.
However, many of the scenes did seem diluted for a less mature reading audience; so that also was something that made me put the book down after a while...there seemed to be a lack of adventure for many chapters, than a cluster of paragraphs of juicy intrigue in the main plot..then back to, what I like to refer as "filler chapters".
I understand that most of those chapters where to show how Iolanthe was transforming and breaking out of her shell...but it just seemed quite unnecessary and I would have liked for something more edgy..a lot of parts seemed so safe when I believe the author had an oppertunity to really take risks and give a bit more danger to this first installment..
Actually...after the book ended, it seemed to neatly wrap up..almost as if it doesn't need to keep on with the series~
SPOILSSS
At the very end, when the Inquisitor dies and the Bane came back younger and more refreshed after this 3rd resurrection, I feel that there wasn't enough punch to this twist at the end...
The reading came off as: "Yup, that nasty lady died but this dude..eh, he's still here...we knew he would be since the mystery of his resurrections has been looked into yet."
All in all...I can sum up this novel in one, very unexciting word: Cute.
I enjoyed it, yes...I wasn't sucked into it, no. Would I read the second installment? Sure...But i'm not going to die without it (like I am with so many other sequels I am waiting for).
I do recommend this book if you like the more "tammer" fantasies..there are a lot of imaginative and lovely events that I adored...it was just too..nice? I don't know how to further describe it, but it is a good read.
3.5 / 5 stars from me
:)
Some magic was also eerily similar, such as "vaulting" (ie Apparition spell) and "illegal spells" (ie Unforgivable curses) etc. ~it goes on a tad, but in Burning Sky, there are variation of "mages": elemental, mind, healing etc.
But those were just the small, almost insignificant details, that had me not too submerged in what is practically a very good and creative YA fantasy.
I did really like Iolanthe Seaborne; she had a very heavy character development and, being a biased female, i love how she began very naive and weak, than became resistant and fierce.
However, many of the scenes did seem diluted for a less mature reading audience; so that also was something that made me put the book down after a while...there seemed to be a lack of adventure for many chapters, than a cluster of paragraphs of juicy intrigue in the main plot..then back to, what I like to refer as "filler chapters".
I understand that most of those chapters where to show how Iolanthe was transforming and breaking out of her shell...but it just seemed quite unnecessary and I would have liked for something more edgy..a lot of parts seemed so safe when I believe the author had an oppertunity to really take risks and give a bit more danger to this first installment..
Actually...after the book ended, it seemed to neatly wrap up..almost as if it doesn't need to keep on with the series~
SPOILSSS
At the very end, when the Inquisitor dies and the Bane came back younger and more refreshed after this 3rd resurrection, I feel that there wasn't enough punch to this twist at the end...
The reading came off as: "Yup, that nasty lady died but this dude..eh, he's still here...we knew he would be since the mystery of his resurrections has been looked into yet."
All in all...I can sum up this novel in one, very unexciting word: Cute.
I enjoyed it, yes...I wasn't sucked into it, no. Would I read the second installment? Sure...But i'm not going to die without it (like I am with so many other sequels I am waiting for).
I do recommend this book if you like the more "tammer" fantasies..there are a lot of imaginative and lovely events that I adored...it was just too..nice? I don't know how to further describe it, but it is a good read.
3.5 / 5 stars from me
:)
Seraphina By Rachel Hartman
Seraphina
By: Rachel Hartmen
Rating:
4.5 / 5
Review:
Amazing, review coming soon
"the Bitter Kingdom" by Rae Carson
The Bitter Kingdom
By: Rae Carson
Rating:
4/5 stars
Review:
To come
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