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A review by piperclover
Reforged by Seth Haddon
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
The biggest reason for my enjoyment of this audiobook is the narrator Gary Furlong. He is so fantastic at acting out the scenes so if a character was crying or dying or angry, he acted the whole scene out so wonderfully if felt like I was actually there.
I don't think this is particularly innovative or exceptional in any way because it really is just your standard high fantasy kingdom story about who gets the throne and revolts with a romance thrown in. It is just fun though because it's so immersive and because I love this narrato a lot so I think that added to the immersion for me.
I really enjoyed it as Zavrius and Balen as a couple. This isn't a romance with fantasy but rather a fantasy with romance so we didn't get as much of their relationship as I would've liked.
My big complaints though are that I feel like this is too long-winded in its descriptions. We would get 2 or 3 pages of descriptions of a new town setting or a new room or a new building and I just found it to be such an inundation of information and I couldn't picture any of it anyway so I found it was skipping forward a lot of times. This along with the fact that some of the chapters were an hour-long and all of them generally too long meant that I just found it to be slow in an unenjoyable way for a bit in the middle.
I also wish that instead of Theo being the sibling to come back and fight for the throne, it had been one of the sister since we never got to know any of them really. I think it could've been an interesting dynamic to see hoe they handled Zav on the throne as they also went to kill him but the sisters were never supposed to be on the throne, Theo was. I want to know how they would've balanced the war-mongering brother and dad they learned from and their new found possible claim tot the throne. .
I don't think this is particularly innovative or exceptional in any way because it really is just your standard high fantasy kingdom story about who gets the throne and revolts with a romance thrown in. It is just fun though because it's so immersive and because I love this narrato a lot so I think that added to the immersion for me.
I really enjoyed it as Zavrius and Balen as a couple. This isn't a romance with fantasy but rather a fantasy with romance so we didn't get as much of their relationship as I would've liked.
My big complaints though are that I feel like this is too long-winded in its descriptions. We would get 2 or 3 pages of descriptions of a new town setting or a new room or a new building and I just found it to be such an inundation of information and I couldn't picture any of it anyway so I found it was skipping forward a lot of times. This along with the fact that some of the chapters were an hour-long and all of them generally too long meant that I just found it to be slow in an unenjoyable way for a bit in the middle.
I also wish that
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail