sarahxify's Reviews (703)

This wasn't as strong as the rest of the series. The structure of it was quite weird; it seemed to just go on and on, with no major plot point signalling the end of the book. There is also just too much detail in these books, which can get really tedious.

I still love this story and all the characters, and will absolutely read the next one. I just hope it picks up a bit and isn't as long-winded as this!

I liked this book at the beginning, but it just got more and more ridiculous as the story went on. There were so many unbelievably convenient solutions and coincidences, and I thought the characterisations were all really poor. The whole point of the book was just for all these characters to end up with each other, with lots of ridiculous bits in between like famous rap stars or whatever he was befriending a small business owner in England and filming a hit internet series.

And even for chick lit/contemporary/whatever this is, the whole "everyone found someone to spend the rest of their life with and they lived happily ever after" trope was just too much. Apparently it didn't matter what kind of horrific break up you'd been through, everyone would find love and no matter how long people had been apart or how little they knew each other, everyone would get along famously and it would all be fine.

I feel like I must be about the only person in the world who feels this way, but this book just didn't do it for me. I really like the actual story, but the way the book is executed really bored me. I listened to the audiobook and I thought the voice actors often sounded really contrived. I actually found it quite hard to follow if the document wasn't a chat record or a description of footage.

I also found it really hard to connect or care about the characters, plus the "twists" were really obvious to me. As well as this, there seems to be a lot missing from the plot. We're now two books into what I think is a trilogy, and we're yet to learn why any of this has happened or any real details about it. It's a shame because I think the idea is brilliant, and the story is great - I just wish it were told completely differently!

Loved this conclusion. Wish those other pesky characters would stop taking up space on the pages that could be about Magnus, though.

This was really interesting. I really like the way the story was told, and how stories about other people who lived in the wilderness were woven throughout.

This was excellent. I really liked the way it was written, probably it was written by a psychologist and I am more used to that kind of writing style. Other books I have read on this topic I have found to be a little too narrative for my tastes and missing sources and facts. If someone asked me for a recommendation for a book about eating animals, I would definitely recommend this one.

This book was really unique. I think the story that this book tells is really important, and I liked it for that. However, I found the way the book was narrated to be quite rambly and hard to follow at times. The unreliable narration made it interesting, but towards the end I started to feel I had lost the story because of it.

I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this trilogy. I didn't really expect to like Rick Riordan's books, but after seeing such high ratings from such a variety of readers I thought I'd give his shortest series a try.

The books were very entertaining and I laughed out loud several times when reading this one. I particularly liked reading from Sadie's POV, she was a very sharp and witty character. The Egyptian mythology elements of the book were great, I really enjoyed reading about the various gods and their roles. That was probably my favourite part about the book.
The only thing that really bothered me was the endpoint to Sadie's weird love triangle. It was a bit left field and seemed to solve everything in a too perfect way, yet left me feeling like it was still totally unresolved and she just had a different problem now!

All in all, would recommend this trilogy to anyone who wants a light hearted and entertaining read with lots of cool magic and gods. I listened to the first two books as audiobooks and they were very well narrated. The story works really well in audiobook format! Either way, a very enjoyable story.

This was okay. I found the story a little slow, and definitely a lot of information dumping. It was a pretty unique story, but I don't know if I'm interested enough to finish the series. Even though there was a lot of stuff that should have really grabbed me, I just didn't really get into the story. Lots of interesting concepts, but it just didn't come together for me.