sarai0410's Reviews (404)

Megumi you beast. 

I'm pretty conflicted on how I feel after finishing Assassin's Apprentice. So instead of full thoughts, here are snippets because it's easier (some may include spoilers).

Positives:
- Gorgeous, atmospheric writing
- Character work with Fitz is phenomenal and I love his character
- The 'character telling his life story' style was a good experience and made sense for the type of story that was being told by Hobb.

Negatives:
- Very loose plot. I don't mind a character-driven story, but I want some kind of plot to hook me.
- Honestly, Fitz's life is pretty depressing.

Between being abandoned by his maternal family, his father not wanting him, being treated as less than due to his 'bastard' status, Burrich constantly giving up on him because of his misunderstanding of the Skill/Wit, HIS DOGS ALWAYS DYING, being abused and gaslit by Galen - like damn..kid could not catch a break.

- The story (for me) finally got interesting around page 380 and then just...fell flat.
- Many parts of the plot (especially the ending) felt more tell than show. I wanted to see the action and story play out, not just hear about it after the fact.

Overall, I wasn't necessarily ever bored with the story and I do really like Fitz and am interested in seeing where his life went after the events in Assassin's Apprentice. 

excuse ME MAKI MARRY ME

Finally out of the Shibuya Incident arc and post-anime content, so now I'm officially confused (yay me!).

I'm loving that another person thinks that they are Yuji's brother - it's honestly just hilarious at this point. Yuta has never really been my favorite, so I really need to see someone kick his ass for automatically taking sides against Yuji and Gojo (hypocritical much??).

I really need to stop getting attached to characters..

There are many aspects of this book that I enjoyed - the writing is atmospheric and it felt very much like I was reading the journal of someone at lived during the Plague and the story itself was well paced (mostly) and an interesting study of the character and their surroundings. Unfortunately, the story really lost me with the ending; up until the last 30ish pages, the pacing was great and then everything just went...weird and felt very jarring. Overall, still a good read, just could have been stronger in the end. 

The Last Olympian is a remarkable conclusion to the original PJO quintet. Action-packed, hilarious, and emotional - it had everything I could have asked for to wrap up the Great Prophecy. I loved seeing so many of our friends from previous books (Tyson & Blackjack, I love you ❤️) while getting to dive more into Percy's character growth as both a hero and (semi) regular teenage boy. 

The only thing I wanted more of was time with our Last Olympian -

I feel like we missed out on Hestia and her role. I was a crying mess when Percy realized what he need to do with Pandora's Box. I love Hestia as a figure in Greek mythology, so I could be a little bias, but I wanted more of her.

 

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is 100% a 5-star series for me. Now just to convince my daughter to read them..