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No, sorry. Actually, I'm not sorry at all.
I'm 20% in, nothing really thrilling or mysterious has happened yet, the characters are dumb, the plot is shallow, the narrative suffers from jumping between 2 timelines and various flashbacks, POV also jumps rather too much, and I've seen better female representation in 19th century literature.
I'm 20% in, nothing really thrilling or mysterious has happened yet, the characters are dumb, the plot is shallow, the narrative suffers from jumping between 2 timelines and various flashbacks, POV also jumps rather too much, and I've seen better female representation in 19th century literature.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny
Intriguing premise, sloppy execution.
This seems to be my main trouble lately with the books I pick up. I'm developing a phobia of beginning new books, for having been so underwhelmed so often. And my 'dropped' list keeps growing.
Like seriously, binding up your bad memories in books so that you don't have to remember, and the people who practice that craft. That could have gone places. I was sold two sentences into the book summary.
And then, it flopped.
Flowery prose and a rambling, whiny narrator is a particularly unattractive combination for me, I'm finding. To top it off here it comes coupled with first person POV, which more often puts me off, rather than help toward further immersion.
Not to mention that very alluring premise, which remains forevermore undeveloped.
I'm told the book gets notably better in the second part. It might, at that.
But I'm past the point in my life where I was generous enough to plough through watery mush to get to the supposed 'good parts'.
Kudos to Carl Prekopp for lending his voice to the audiobook version. He's cool. He made the hours I wasted on this at least bearable.
*ALSO, I just discovered through a random review that there is a particularly brutal murder of a puppy in the second half of the book.
That's a trigger for me, which I would have appreciated being warned about in some manner, thanks a lot, Collins.
You now go straight to my blacklist for that.*
That's a trigger for me, which I would have appreciated being warned about in some manner, thanks a lot, Collins.
You now go straight to my blacklist for that.*
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Rape
Moderate: Vomit
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DNF @ 48%
Third time I'm attempting to read this, and this is the farthest I have got, but it's headed for the dnf pile once again. I'm all for huge ass series with epic quests, but oh gawd, this is like reading bad fanfiction. The reason I even tried so hard is because some years back I read the prequel New Spring and liked that so much, I reread it the following year. I got The Eye of the World hoping I could read more about Lan and Moiraine; instead I got some whiny brats (mind, I don't only include the three young men when I say 'brats') whom I could not learn to like, and rather awful portrayals of Lan and Moiraine.
I realise there are 14 years worth of experience as a writer separating the two books, but yeah, sorry. I can't keep doing this to myself in the hope that maybe 5 or 10 books into the series Jordan may begin to write in the style that I had liked in the prequel.
Further gripes:
1) What's with the names? I'm not even sure how to properly pronounce half of them, and they're all so ridiculous.
2) Also, I'm supposed to somehow relate to these people? Why should I, when they're acting like of bunch of spoiled brats. I mean, sure, they have the mentality of people coming from some backwater little village where they get any news only when the peddlers visit, but they are bullheaded to the extreme and refuse to see sense, even when they realise they're in the wrong. Because if they do deign to see reason, they'll have to - god forbid - admit they were wrong.
The only character I really like is Lan, and that's only because I've read the prequel, and not because of the way he's portrayed in The Eye of the World.
3) Also, word vomit much? Seriously, I could do with less tedious details, especially when they're supposed to be fighting for their lives in some supposedly fast paced scene. There's description, and then there's nitpicking at every little detail, making the story drag, which is what we have here. My copy has 800+ pages and halfway through, only about a week has passed for the characters.
Third time I'm attempting to read this, and this is the farthest I have got, but it's headed for the dnf pile once again. I'm all for huge ass series with epic quests, but oh gawd, this is like reading bad fanfiction. The reason I even tried so hard is because some years back I read the prequel New Spring and liked that so much, I reread it the following year. I got The Eye of the World hoping I could read more about Lan and Moiraine; instead I got some whiny brats (mind, I don't only include the three young men when I say 'brats') whom I could not learn to like, and rather awful portrayals of Lan and Moiraine.
I realise there are 14 years worth of experience as a writer separating the two books, but yeah, sorry. I can't keep doing this to myself in the hope that maybe 5 or 10 books into the series Jordan may begin to write in the style that I had liked in the prequel.
Further gripes:
1) What's with the names? I'm not even sure how to properly pronounce half of them, and they're all so ridiculous.
2) Also, I'm supposed to somehow relate to these people? Why should I, when they're acting like of bunch of spoiled brats. I mean, sure, they have the mentality of people coming from some backwater little village where they get any news only when the peddlers visit, but they are bullheaded to the extreme and refuse to see sense, even when they realise they're in the wrong. Because if they do deign to see reason, they'll have to - god forbid - admit they were wrong.
The only character I really like is Lan, and that's only because I've read the prequel, and not because of the way he's portrayed in The Eye of the World.
3) Also, word vomit much? Seriously, I could do with less tedious details, especially when they're supposed to be fighting for their lives in some supposedly fast paced scene. There's description, and then there's nitpicking at every little detail, making the story drag, which is what we have here. My copy has 800+ pages and halfway through, only about a week has passed for the characters.
DNF @ 30%
I'm fairly sure this book is completely up to par with the rest of Dame Agatha Christie's works, but I can't finish it. Once again I'm convinced that the short story genre isn't my cup of tea. At all. I can't get attached to the characters for lack of time to really delve into their personalities, and if I don't care about the characters, it's headed for the DNF pile.
I'm fairly sure this book is completely up to par with the rest of Dame Agatha Christie's works, but I can't finish it. Once again I'm convinced that the short story genre isn't my cup of tea. At all. I can't get attached to the characters for lack of time to really delve into their personalities, and if I don't care about the characters, it's headed for the DNF pile.
DNF @ chapter 21
This is the sort of poorly done fanfiction I would expect from a preteen who hasn't got a grasp of proper writing yet, where everything in incosistent and the characters are so much out of character they're not even in the same universe, and the prose is bland and perfunctory. This doesn't deserve the honour of being called a sequel, nor to be assossiated with Dumas in any way. Guh. Bring out the brain bleach.
This is the sort of poorly done fanfiction I would expect from a preteen who hasn't got a grasp of proper writing yet, where everything in incosistent and the characters are so much out of character they're not even in the same universe, and the prose is bland and perfunctory. This doesn't deserve the honour of being called a sequel, nor to be assossiated with Dumas in any way. Guh. Bring out the brain bleach.
Yeah, no. Seriously? No. Don't even get me started.
DNF @ 48%
Third time I'm attempting to read this, and this is the farthest I have got, but it's headed for the dnf pile once again. I'm all for huge ass series with epic quests, but oh gawd, this is like reading bad fanfiction. The reason I even tried so hard is because some years back I read the prequel New Spring and liked that so much, I reread it the following year. I got The Eye of the World hoping I could read more about Lan and Moiraine; instead I got some whiny brats (mind, I don't only include the three young men when I say 'brats') whom I could not learn to like, and rather awful portrayals of Lan and Moiraine.
I realise there are 14 years worth of experience as a writer separating the two books, but yeah, sorry. I can't keep doing this to myself in the hope that maybe 5 or 10 books into the series Jordan may begin to write in the style that I had liked in the prequel.
Further gripes:
1) What's with the names? I'm not even sure how to properly pronounce half of them, and they're all so ridiculous.
2) Also, I'm supposed to somehow relate to these people? Why should I, when they're acting like of bunch of spoiled brats. I mean, sure, they have the mentality of people coming from some backwater little village where they get any news only when the peddlers visit, but they are bullheaded to the extreme and refuse to see sense, even when they realise they're in the wrong. Because if they do deign to see reason, they'll have to - god forbid - admit they were wrong.
The only character I really like is Lan, and that's only because I've read the prequel, and not because of the way he's portrayed in The Eye of the World.
3) Also, word vomit much? Seriously, I could do with less tedious details, especially when they're supposed to be fighting for their lives in some supposedly fast paced scene. There's description, and then there's nitpicking at every little detail, making the story drag, which is what we have here. My copy has 800+ pages and halfway through, only about a week has passed for the characters.
Third time I'm attempting to read this, and this is the farthest I have got, but it's headed for the dnf pile once again. I'm all for huge ass series with epic quests, but oh gawd, this is like reading bad fanfiction. The reason I even tried so hard is because some years back I read the prequel New Spring and liked that so much, I reread it the following year. I got The Eye of the World hoping I could read more about Lan and Moiraine; instead I got some whiny brats (mind, I don't only include the three young men when I say 'brats') whom I could not learn to like, and rather awful portrayals of Lan and Moiraine.
I realise there are 14 years worth of experience as a writer separating the two books, but yeah, sorry. I can't keep doing this to myself in the hope that maybe 5 or 10 books into the series Jordan may begin to write in the style that I had liked in the prequel.
Further gripes:
1) What's with the names? I'm not even sure how to properly pronounce half of them, and they're all so ridiculous.
2) Also, I'm supposed to somehow relate to these people? Why should I, when they're acting like of bunch of spoiled brats. I mean, sure, they have the mentality of people coming from some backwater little village where they get any news only when the peddlers visit, but they are bullheaded to the extreme and refuse to see sense, even when they realise they're in the wrong. Because if they do deign to see reason, they'll have to - god forbid - admit they were wrong.
The only character I really like is Lan, and that's only because I've read the prequel, and not because of the way he's portrayed in The Eye of the World.
3) Also, word vomit much? Seriously, I could do with less tedious details, especially when they're supposed to be fighting for their lives in some supposedly fast paced scene. There's description, and then there's nitpicking at every little detail, making the story drag, which is what we have here. My copy has 800+ pages and halfway through, only about a week has passed for the characters.
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DNF @ 30%
I'm fairly sure this book is completely up to par with the rest of Dame Agatha Christie's works, but I can't finish it. Once again I'm convinced that the short story genre isn't my cup of tea. At all. I can't get attached to the characters for lack of time to really delve into their personalities, and if I don't care about the characters, it's headed for the DNF pile.
I'm fairly sure this book is completely up to par with the rest of Dame Agatha Christie's works, but I can't finish it. Once again I'm convinced that the short story genre isn't my cup of tea. At all. I can't get attached to the characters for lack of time to really delve into their personalities, and if I don't care about the characters, it's headed for the DNF pile.
DNF @ 7% (That's a new low for me, I think)
I really wanted to like this book, because I rarely stumble upon a book with a gay MC the plot of which isn't held up by steamy romance(at least, I understood that to be the case with The Ornamental Hermit), but this was so gloomy and heavy, with difficult ot read prose right off the bat, I was immediately put off. I didn't even have the time to try to like any of the characters, or the set up.
I really wanted to like this book, because I rarely stumble upon a book with a gay MC the plot of which isn't held up by steamy romance(at least, I understood that to be the case with The Ornamental Hermit), but this was so gloomy and heavy, with difficult ot read prose right off the bat, I was immediately put off. I didn't even have the time to try to like any of the characters, or the set up.