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Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
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bookshelves: 2015, did-it-because-series, different-world-different-time-line, excellent-secondary-characters, female-lead, finished-because-i-am-not-a-quitter, guy-is-really-really-good-looking, magic-werewovles-supernatural-stuff, reviewed, romance-and-squishyness, three-star
Sep 18, 2015
bookshelves: 2015, did-it-because-series, different-world-different-time-line, excellent-secondary-characters, female-lead, finished-because-i-am-not-a-quitter, guy-is-really-really-good-looking, magic-werewovles-supernatural-stuff, reviewed, romance-and-squishyness, three-star
This series has gotten better. (Book one was a disaster.) The writing has improved. There are spots of well thought of world building. However, there are still some points holding it back from really engaging me.
It took me, what felt like, forever to get through this book. I hesitate to say I got bored, but I got bored. The book's multiple story lines and method of cycling through those story lines with each chapter made it hard for me to focus. I've dealt with this form before in books with no trouble it was just that all these characters were spending so much time wallowing in their backstories and tragic pasts that it was eating away at valuable plot time.
I'm not kidding. Maas handed out tragedy to everyone. I don't mind the tragic past part so much give their backgrounds and what has been happening, but I don't want to hear about it every chapter. I don't want to read pages upon pages of Caelena reminding us how empty she is.
Yeah, our protagonist spends a lot of her time being dead inside. It's riveting.
It wasted time. It slowed the pace down. Half the chapter would be a character reflecting on the past, and their pain and the last two pages would tease us with something interesting only to end on a 'cliffhanger'. Once I had cycled through all the other character's chapters with the same pattern, I was too irritated to care what happened next.
Oh, and the chapters with the witches felt like a pointless 'How To Train Your Dragon' spinoff. I'm not going to scoff completely at their inclusion. I feel like I underestimated Maas and her ability to weave plot points and bring them all together. I assume that the witches inclusion will be more pertinent as the series continues and their purpose in this book was to lay a bit more groundwork.
Better to ease me into them a bit than just toss them in later and expect me to care.
I will be interested to see where this series goes. It's improving that much I'm certain. Annoyances I had earlier in the series are either being improved on, being dialed back, or removed altogether. So it won't be a chore now for me to continue with the series. (Will still probably long as hell, but I won't cry about it.)
It took me, what felt like, forever to get through this book. I hesitate to say I got bored, but I got bored. The book's multiple story lines and method of cycling through those story lines with each chapter made it hard for me to focus. I've dealt with this form before in books with no trouble it was just that all these characters were spending so much time wallowing in their backstories and tragic pasts that it was eating away at valuable plot time.
I'm not kidding. Maas handed out tragedy to everyone. I don't mind the tragic past part so much give their backgrounds and what has been happening, but I don't want to hear about it every chapter. I don't want to read pages upon pages of Caelena reminding us how empty she is.
Yeah, our protagonist spends a lot of her time being dead inside. It's riveting.
It wasted time. It slowed the pace down. Half the chapter would be a character reflecting on the past, and their pain and the last two pages would tease us with something interesting only to end on a 'cliffhanger'. Once I had cycled through all the other character's chapters with the same pattern, I was too irritated to care what happened next.
Oh, and the chapters with the witches felt like a pointless 'How To Train Your Dragon' spinoff. I'm not going to scoff completely at their inclusion. I feel like I underestimated Maas and her ability to weave plot points and bring them all together. I assume that the witches inclusion will be more pertinent as the series continues and their purpose in this book was to lay a bit more groundwork.
Better to ease me into them a bit than just toss them in later and expect me to care.
I will be interested to see where this series goes. It's improving that much I'm certain. Annoyances I had earlier in the series are either being improved on, being dialed back, or removed altogether. So it won't be a chore now for me to continue with the series. (Will still probably long as hell, but I won't cry about it.)
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Reading Progress
September 18, 2015
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Started Reading
September 18, 2015
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September 18, 2015
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September 18, 2015
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"Why is it when an author wants to portray their character as feeling empty inside they have to harp on it so much? Like look at all the nothingness. So empty inside. Void of emotion. Emotionally dead. Sooooo much nothing. Did I mention they're totally dead inside?"
September 18, 2015
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1.0%
"...about how hollow and dark she was inside.
[..] or any of the things that had left her soul so limp and weary.
That was like the fourth and fifth mention of her emptiness. And this book has only started. I GET IT OKAY!?"
[..] or any of the things that had left her soul so limp and weary.
That was like the fourth and fifth mention of her emptiness. And this book has only started. I GET IT OKAY!?"
September 21, 2015
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6.0%
"His parents had never shared a bed, and he didn't particularly want to know more than that.
Well you exist so obviously if they didn't share a bed they had sex on a table somewhere at least once."
Well you exist so obviously if they didn't share a bed they had sex on a table somewhere at least once."
October 22, 2015
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19.0%
October 25, 2015
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38.0%
October 26, 2015
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43.0%
"But she had already reached the shop, which smelled divine and was stocked with chocolates and candies and oh god, hazelnut truffles.
Distracted by candy again. At least she's consistent?"
Distracted by candy again. At least she's consistent?"
October 27, 2015
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52.0%
"What in the hell had done that? Was there something worse down there, swimming at the belly of the mountain?
There's always a bigger fish."
There's always a bigger fish."
October 28, 2015
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100.0%
October 28, 2015
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Finished Reading
