si0bhan's review
1.0
So the first book was a decent read. It wasn’t one of my favourite books but it kept me interested for the most part. As someone who does not like giving up halfway through series I forced myself to work through this one.
Honestly, it was much harder to get through than the first.
I’ll start with my dislike of one of the storylines. Enter Lilith, the typical story for how someone comes into their role as a bad guy (well, technically bad girl). Was it really necessary to pick that storyline for her to come into her role? It wasn’t just that it has been done a hundred times before and has lost all of the shock it could have, but it was just generally badly done. I’ve always disliked that kind of storyline for the ‘evil’ females but in this case I disliked it even more than usual – worse still is the fact that I cannot pinpoint what part in particular knocked me over the edge into complete hatred of her story. Whilst she is an interesting character her entire backstory drove me insane.
Speaking of backstories, I feel as though things were over intellectualised on the twin front as they were growing up. Yes they’re meant to be smart, I get that, but at times I felt as though the conversational routes that adults had with them were too much. No matter how smart your kid happens to be you’re not going to sit exchanging some of the conversations that occurred at the start of this book.
Most of my dislike, however, is limited to the first few parts of the book. I thought that the first book in the series could have been cut down by a couple of hundred pages but it is nothing compared to how this one could have (and probably should have) been cut down – with most of it being at the start. Again, sadly, most of the action seemed to be limited to the end.
Really this should be a one and a half star review, but as I’m not feeling generous (it really did take me far too much effort to work through this book) and it has been brought down to a one. Whilst lots of things were explained and brought about I couldn't bring myself to get over everything that annoyed me, let us just hope that the last book is an improvement…
Honestly, it was much harder to get through than the first.
I’ll start with my dislike of one of the storylines. Enter Lilith, the typical story for how someone comes into their role as a bad guy (well, technically bad girl). Was it really necessary to pick that storyline for her to come into her role? It wasn’t just that it has been done a hundred times before and has lost all of the shock it could have, but it was just generally badly done. I’ve always disliked that kind of storyline for the ‘evil’ females but in this case I disliked it even more than usual – worse still is the fact that I cannot pinpoint what part in particular knocked me over the edge into complete hatred of her story. Whilst she is an interesting character her entire backstory drove me insane.
Speaking of backstories, I feel as though things were over intellectualised on the twin front as they were growing up. Yes they’re meant to be smart, I get that, but at times I felt as though the conversational routes that adults had with them were too much. No matter how smart your kid happens to be you’re not going to sit exchanging some of the conversations that occurred at the start of this book.
Most of my dislike, however, is limited to the first few parts of the book. I thought that the first book in the series could have been cut down by a couple of hundred pages but it is nothing compared to how this one could have (and probably should have) been cut down – with most of it being at the start. Again, sadly, most of the action seemed to be limited to the end.
Really this should be a one and a half star review, but as I’m not feeling generous (it really did take me far too much effort to work through this book) and it has been brought down to a one. Whilst lots of things were explained and brought about I couldn't bring myself to get over everything that annoyed me, let us just hope that the last book is an improvement…
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