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A review by sarah_lou
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
2.0
This is the reason why I don’t do trilogies. The second book syndrome.
Nothing happens in this book it’s just a lot of back-and-forth chatting and random scenes that didn’t make sense or didn’t add anything to the story. It was as if it wanted to have Game of Thrones epic-ness, but failed miserably.
There was a section in this book that made me put it down for a few days as the writing was very amateurish…and that’s being polite. Characters did things that a writer with a good hold of storytelling would be able to make exciting or new, but Leigh just hasn’t grown from the first book. The first book had excitement for the buildup to the ending This book just doesn’t.
We know something is going to happen with the Darkling, but yet we don’t because they’re still after the firebird and then the book is coming really close to finishing and it all happens in the space of a few paragraphs. Then there’s also the issue of the battle scenes of them being…well… not very epic or even well described.
Another issue I found was the male characters all talked the same. There was nothing new about them and the only exciting character is the Darkling and we get thrown names of characters that we’re supposed to know and as a reader I’m just not interested in the story to try and figure out who has died because I’m pretty sure that they only got a paragraph earlier and now they’re dead so it doesn’t matter.
One last thing that has started annoying me why are the name of things italicised? and why does she use another language for the name of things then doesn’t put in what it is into the actual story and I’m too bored at this stage to even bother to go looking at what that word means.
One star is because I finished. The second star is for the Darkling. I may have to take a break from this series for a bit. It was just a boring struggle to get through.
Nothing happens in this book it’s just a lot of back-and-forth chatting and random scenes that didn’t make sense or didn’t add anything to the story. It was as if it wanted to have Game of Thrones epic-ness, but failed miserably.
There was a section in this book that made me put it down for a few days as the writing was very amateurish…and that’s being polite. Characters did things that a writer with a good hold of storytelling would be able to make exciting or new, but Leigh just hasn’t grown from the first book. The first book had excitement for the buildup to the ending This book just doesn’t.
We know something is going to happen with the Darkling, but yet we don’t because they’re still after the firebird and then the book is coming really close to finishing and it all happens in the space of a few paragraphs. Then there’s also the issue of the battle scenes of them being…well… not very epic or even well described.
Another issue I found was the male characters all talked the same. There was nothing new about them and the only exciting character is the Darkling and we get thrown names of characters that we’re supposed to know and as a reader I’m just not interested in the story to try and figure out who has died because I’m pretty sure that they only got a paragraph earlier and now they’re dead so it doesn’t matter.
One last thing that has started annoying me why are the name of things italicised? and why does she use another language for the name of things then doesn’t put in what it is into the actual story and I’m too bored at this stage to even bother to go looking at what that word means.
One star is because I finished. The second star is for the Darkling. I may have to take a break from this series for a bit. It was just a boring struggle to get through.