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.
Schlagwort-Archive:review
Review: THE EVENING AND THE MORNING (KINGSBRIDGE #4)
Dear Ken Follett,
thank you for everything, but this is the end of our common path.
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.
Spoilery Series Review: THE INHERITANCE CYCLE by Christopher Paolini
Unpopular opinion time once again – here’s what I think about the Inheritance Cycle aka Star Wars with Dragons. Basically: it’s a good intro into the genre for kids. And that’s it.
Quick-Review: TOWER OF FOOLS/ NARRENTURM by Andrzej Sapkowski
(English version below) Eine sinn- und handlungslose, ständig mäandernde Groteske, gefüllt mit viel zu vielen Informationen und Details, ohne Fortschritt und mitreißende Charaktermotivation.
Review: FEEDING FRENZY (THE SUMMONER SISTERS #1)
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. „Feeding Frenzy“ is a perfectly-paced mixture of urban fantasy and comedy, filled with hilarious banter between its two main protagonists. Summer and Ophelia are monster hunters, but their work is more complicated than Geralt of Rivia’s in The Witcher.
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: LEAVING THE WAY (THE WAY TRILOGY #2)
Well, I so didn’t expect to not like this one. I really loved the prequel, after all: that one was perfectly paced and a brillantly balanced mixture of sassy sarcasm and dystopian elements. This one wasn’t. Somehow, it all felt off to me, starting right at the start. My biggest issues were with the protagonist’s actions while her best friend was kidnapped, the villain’s incompetence, and the pacing.
Klaus Viedenz 