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clairbear1989
I'm a teacher, so I've read this for work as my class have a trip to see the film this week...and I have to plan 2 weeks of lessons based on it :P pretty good, lots of laughs for the kids and a few thrown in for the adults too (although it is definitely child style humour). Surprising twist at the end that makes it a bit more meaningful.
Ok, I finished the book. And I will admit, for the majority I skim read it. The only chapters I really concentrated on we're Manon's, and Elide's. I read enough of the others to know the plot, and then read the final 10 chapters properly.
I don't get it.
Everyone raved about how amazing this book was, and it was just...meh. Not baaaad, exactly, which is why it's 3 stars not 1. But meh.
Why
- it was about 200 pages too long. Hence the skim reading.
- I felt absolutely no love of Rowan.
- I felt absolutely no love of Aelin.
- seeing as she's the main character and apparently now obsessed with him, that's a bit of a problem.
I still can't believe how ridiculous Aelin was spending this whole book bitching about Chaol. If anything, her character development is that she got more idiotic, rather than cleverer. I loved Chaolina, but I would have coped with that being over if Aelin wasn't so petty about all the things we know weren't his fault. Character development and changes in affections I like, and in The Big Situation I could understand why it was over. It's just how poorly she dealt with it, and how she dealt the blame.
And I don't get the Rowan thing. Perhaps if this book had been his character development, and then they obsessed over each other in the next one, I could have coped.
Finally, the length. The book had good quotes and good writing and a good plot! But 200 pages seemed to be of things that were unnecessary, or of people obsessing over Aelin. Paragraphs were written to explain what could have been said in a sentence.
Le sigh. I think book two was my favourite, book one was good and book three would have been better if it then didn't connect on to this one - this book makes me feel like the plot that should have happened in three didn't.
I don't get it.
Everyone raved about how amazing this book was, and it was just...meh. Not baaaad, exactly, which is why it's 3 stars not 1. But meh.
Why
- it was about 200 pages too long. Hence the skim reading.
- I felt absolutely no love of Rowan.
- I felt absolutely no love of Aelin.
- seeing as she's the main character and apparently now obsessed with him, that's a bit of a problem.
I still can't believe how ridiculous Aelin was spending this whole book bitching about Chaol. If anything, her character development is that she got more idiotic, rather than cleverer. I loved Chaolina, but I would have coped with that being over if Aelin wasn't so petty about all the things we know weren't his fault. Character development and changes in affections I like, and in The Big Situation I could understand why it was over. It's just how poorly she dealt with it, and how she dealt the blame.
And I don't get the Rowan thing. Perhaps if this book had been his character development, and then they obsessed over each other in the next one, I could have coped.
Finally, the length. The book had good quotes and good writing and a good plot! But 200 pages seemed to be of things that were unnecessary, or of people obsessing over Aelin. Paragraphs were written to explain what could have been said in a sentence.
Le sigh. I think book two was my favourite, book one was good and book three would have been better if it then didn't connect on to this one - this book makes me feel like the plot that should have happened in three didn't.
