A review by thereadingtrashqueen
De Macht der Spreuken, by Blake Charlton

3.0

I really wish I could give this book four stars, and the final third of the book definitely deserves them, but I just can’t. It was such a struggle to get through the first half, having to deal with completely new characters (who annoyed me so much- what’s up with the constant repitition in this book?) while the ones I grew attached to were pushed to the background. Even now, I feel more attached to the kobolds than the new characters; including Francesca, though she definitely grew on me. This is exactly why I’m hesitant to read the final part of the trilogy, even if I know I eventually will. I just can’t let it go unfinished. I just wish this book had focused more on the storyline we grew to care about from the POV of our beloved characters iso the new ones (I mean, we already had a whole new city to take in and a new kind of magic), and that it had dealt better with some big things throughout the book; for example at the very end I felt robbed of the goodbye a particular character deserved in my opinion. I do have to say there were some amazing plot twists in that final third, especially the one concerning the Savanna Walker, that had me flailing. All in all it’s definitely not a bad story, I just didn’t like the way it (the first half/beginning most of all) was set up.