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A review by ajileowens
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
While I usually don’t like the “constant-travel-post-first-confrontation” that plagues the middle book of a fantasy series, this one wasn’t half bad. There were a couple of quests throughout the travel that made it semi-enjoyable and not just like an endless cat-and-mouse game between the protagonist and antagonist.
HOWEVER, man the dialogue in this book is at times… horrendous. Characters do and say things that make no sense and the scenes are so poorly fleshed out that 1) you can hardly picture what’s going on and 2) the scenes almost feel jump-cut together. The result is sometimes dizzying as characters bounce from emotion to emotion with little to no explanation in a single scene. By the end of the book, it made me want to start skimming the dialogue scenes just to get through them faster.
HOWEVER, man the dialogue in this book is at times… horrendous. Characters do and say things that make no sense and the scenes are so poorly fleshed out that 1) you can hardly picture what’s going on and 2) the scenes almost feel jump-cut together. The result is sometimes dizzying as characters bounce from emotion to emotion with little to no explanation in a single scene. By the end of the book, it made me want to start skimming the dialogue scenes just to get through them faster.