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Master Artificer by Justin Travis Call
Did not finish book.
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I reviewed Master of Sorrows, the first book in this series here on Goodreads.
I just can't anymore. I got through so much of this but even thinking about listening to it again is putting me into a reading slump. This book opens just after the last book ended, but gives us a million other perspectives to read from. Generally, I don't mind that, but when we've spent so much time with Annev, it makes it hard to jump between them.
My fiance and I listened to this (and the first book) together and realized that the main issue with this is that we have had an entire book and then some and still don't know enough about Annev. He isn't nuanced or well-written, but a blank slate that you can attach any idea or personality to when the time serves you. The change from the first book to this was super drastic, which would have been fine if the characters were more than one-dimensional shams.
And don't even get me started on Kenton. The most boring person in the world and every time his POV came up I wanted to scratch my own eyes out so that I didn't have to hear about his magic ones. (I know that doesn't really work but omg was it bad).
I'm not going back to this story, this series, or this author.
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I reviewed Master of Sorrows, the first book in this series here on Goodreads.
I just can't anymore. I got through so much of this but even thinking about listening to it again is putting me into a reading slump. This book opens just after the last book ended, but gives us a million other perspectives to read from. Generally, I don't mind that, but when we've spent so much time with Annev, it makes it hard to jump between them.
My fiance and I listened to this (and the first book) together and realized that the main issue with this is that we have had an entire book and then some and still don't know enough about Annev. He isn't nuanced or well-written, but a blank slate that you can attach any idea or personality to when the time serves you. The change from the first book to this was super drastic, which would have been fine if the characters were more than one-dimensional shams.
And don't even get me started on Kenton. The most boring person in the world and every time his POV came up I wanted to scratch my own eyes out so that I didn't have to hear about his magic ones. (I know that doesn't really work but omg was it bad).
I'm not going back to this story, this series, or this author.
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