Während ich Hals über Kopf in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue verliebt war, sind meine Gefühle für dieses im besten Fall lauwarm. Warum? Weil ich in das Konzept verliebt bin, mehr nicht.
Kategorie-Archive: 3 STARS
Review: VALOUR (THE FAITHFUL AND THE FALLEN #2)
Better than Malice, but not excellent: still too many tiny mistakes that kept catapulting me out of it. The writing style just isn’t my thing.
Review: THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
If I compare it to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – and I have to compare it to Addie LaRue – yes, the basic concept, the idea behind this book totally worked for me. It hooked me. But while I was head over heels in love with The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, my feelings for this one are lukewarm at best. Why? Because I am in love with the concept, nothing more.
Review: RED RISING (RED RISING SAGA #1)
Lots of good ideas, some wasted potential, an interesting Panemesque setting on Mars, but too much bad writing, Sevro ex machina and Darrow Stu for my taste – still, this series looks promising.
Review: MALICE (THE FAITHFUL AND THE FALLEN #1) by John Gwynne
Unpopular opinion time once again.
Second read of the year, second highly anticipated series of the year, second disappointment. And this time it’s definitely not a thing of taste: in my opinion, Malice, a book I’ve heard mostly gushing reviews about, is just mediocre. Obvious plot, boring characters, terrible tropes I hate.
Review: JADE CITY (THE GREEN BONE SAGA #1)
A predictable Urban Fantasy in a Hong Kongish setting that reveals what’s gonna come right at the start by its choice of narrators. Technically well-written but without a soul.
Rezension: DIE GOLDENEN WÖLFE
Ein schön geschriebener Versuch, „Das Lied der Krähen“ mit vielfältigeren Charakteren und Rätseln zu reproduzieren, die fast genau aus „Sakrileg“ kopiert wurden. Daher fehlt es ganz entschieden an Originalität und dieses Buch kann nie das tun, was seine Schreibvorlagen so bravourös getan haben: Es bleibt ein blasser Schatten ihrer Brillanz, aber ist eine unterhaltsame Lektüre, bis zu dem verpfuschten, schlecht geschriebenen Ende.
Review: THE GILDED WOLVES
A nicely written try to recreate Six of Crows with more diverse characters and riddles almost exactly copied from The Da Vinci Code. Thanks to that, it lacks originality and it can never do the things these books did as good as they did: it stays a pale copy of their brilliance, but is an entertaining read, right up to the botched, badly written ending.
Rezension: A SKY BEYOND THE STORM (ELIAS&LAIA #4)
Gleich vorneweg: Ich bin sehr enttäuscht, weil dieses Buch eine Menge Handlungsstränge und Dinge beinhaltet, die ich hasse – ALLERDINGS: für wen diese Dinge in Ordnung sind, der wird dieses Buch lieben.
Review: A SKY BEYOND THE STORM (AN EMBER IN THE ASHES #4)
First things first: I’m very disappointed because this book included a lot of tropes and things I hate within books – HOWEVER, if you’re okay with these things, you’ll love this one. But I didn’t. I’ve had a lot of negative thoughts about its two last prequels (I still love Ember, but I felt that I got weaker and weaker afterwards) and all of the things I hated, especially in A Reaper at the Gates, are here once again. And there’s even more.
Klaus Viedenz 