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I really wanted to read this well firstly, because of the cover it is stunning and a massive congrats to the designer. Secondly, the plot: set in a library, a library that reverends? I'm in. I don't know what happened to me here. But just getting through the first 38 pages took me *checks notes* almost two months. I started it and then saw the word dust and I thought Northern Lights and I was okay so I kept reading and then I read sandy, and I thought to myself: "Dear God, they're on Dune" which makes no sense because Dune is the title and the planet is something else. So I put the book down because Dune was not for me, then I picked it back up read the next few pages and thought 'okay, fear over, onto the book'.
The two main characters are Evar and Liviria. You meet Liviria first (her name means weed) I honestly found her annoying in the first three chapters, I don't really know why but I did. But it got better, I loved the writing and the world building and the way the characters link up at the end. It is slow (kinda) and it sometimes gets confusing and sometimes you feel like you haven't really made any progress, but it's worth it. At least for me it was. I want to read book two and I eagerly await it.
And that's it.
Thank you to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction, HarperVoyager for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
The two main characters are Evar and Liviria. You meet Liviria first (her name means weed) I honestly found her annoying in the first three chapters, I don't really know why but I did. But it got better, I loved the writing and the world building and the way the characters link up at the end. It is slow (kinda) and it sometimes gets confusing and sometimes you feel like you haven't really made any progress, but it's worth it. At least for me it was. I want to read book two and I eagerly await it.
And that's it.
Thank you to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction, HarperVoyager for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Okay, so how to describe Fourth Wing...
It's a mix for me: part Hunger Games, part Divergent and part Ali Hazelwood (?) I know it seems like I'm stretching a bit on the last one but you'll soon understand why.
When I first saw the genres this book covered: Romance and Sci Fi & Fantasy, I thought brilliant! I'm a big fan of both. Until I realised it was also about time travel - specifically to 2008. It gave YA, which it may very well have been... I am reading an ARC of this and so have no idea how it has been promoted recently (upon checking Goodreads it does say YA/NA), That being said I had flashbacks to Shatter Me, to Twilight to the type of writing that 8 to 10 year old me would have lapped up. But 23 year old me is confused - very confused. The protagonist is supposed to be 20 and yet says stuff like "gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level hot" last time I saw this many hyphens I was 12. Either she's 20 or 16 being the speech was not giving what I expected from a 20 year old.
The YA 2008 Era references also littered the page, the first chapter itself was full of them, so I thought I'd provide a short summary:
- The Scale Pin? = Mockingjay Pin.
- The Riders Quadrant fight it out thing = The Reaping
- also, "Volun-told?" You mean she didn't volunteer as tribute?
- The sister = Primrose
- Xaden: 'if he finds out who you are maybe he might k-word you' = Divergent
- The Quadrant = Factions
Basically, you have to win the hunger games to get a chance to be picked by a dragon and if the dragon don't pick you, you die. But also there's a shortage of riders? and they still have to go through the hunger games? I don't know if I'm missing something here guys.
It was okay, is what I'm trying to say the comparisons are rife throughout the book. If you're like me and you were around at the beginning of the YA kick-off? The beginning of Shatter Me etc. this will feel familiar. However, I will be reading it for the romance, the enemies to lovers situation has me hooked, which means I will be purchasing a copy, and that is probably the biggest compliment I can give after reading an ARC.
Thank you to Little, Brown Book Group UK, Piatkus for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
It's a mix for me: part Hunger Games, part Divergent and part Ali Hazelwood (?) I know it seems like I'm stretching a bit on the last one but you'll soon understand why.
When I first saw the genres this book covered: Romance and Sci Fi & Fantasy, I thought brilliant! I'm a big fan of both. Until I realised it was also about time travel - specifically to 2008. It gave YA, which it may very well have been... I am reading an ARC of this and so have no idea how it has been promoted recently (upon checking Goodreads it does say YA/NA), That being said I had flashbacks to Shatter Me, to Twilight to the type of writing that 8 to 10 year old me would have lapped up. But 23 year old me is confused - very confused. The protagonist is supposed to be 20 and yet says stuff like "gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level hot" last time I saw this many hyphens I was 12. Either she's 20 or 16 being the speech was not giving what I expected from a 20 year old.
The YA 2008 Era references also littered the page, the first chapter itself was full of them, so I thought I'd provide a short summary:
- The Scale Pin? = Mockingjay Pin.
- The Riders Quadrant fight it out thing = The Reaping
- also, "Volun-told?" You mean she didn't volunteer as tribute?
- The sister = Primrose
- Xaden: 'if he finds out who you are maybe he might k-word you' = Divergent
- The Quadrant = Factions
Basically, you have to win the hunger games to get a chance to be picked by a dragon and if the dragon don't pick you, you die. But also there's a shortage of riders? and they still have to go through the hunger games? I don't know if I'm missing something here guys.
It was okay, is what I'm trying to say the comparisons are rife throughout the book. If you're like me and you were around at the beginning of the YA kick-off? The beginning of Shatter Me etc. this will feel familiar. However, I will be reading it for the romance, the enemies to lovers situation has me hooked, which means I will be purchasing a copy, and that is probably the biggest compliment I can give after reading an ARC.
Thank you to Little, Brown Book Group UK, Piatkus for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
yeah bit crazy but I was hella invested
book 38 of 2023
book 38 of 2023
The FMC felt stupid and the MMC gave annoying.
