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The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm by Christopher Paolini
2.0
While it is a tremendous pleasure reading about Eragon and the magic world of the dragons, it feels like this one is a rushed, done in a weekend book just to reset the mind from a more "serious" project. The possibilities of subjects from which you would be able to take on Eragon stories are immense and yet these plain couple of pages are just an attempt to recover something that probably would have been better left untouched.
The Arkhel Conundrum by Sarah Ash
4.0
I must confess I am disappointed!
The (3.5 not 4) 4 stars out of 5 is for the entire series and the hope that book#6 will make up for this one!
I have been lucky enough to find the "Tears of Artamon" series in the last year and so I have read them in a sequence.
If the first books did success in transmitting a rather thick and pleasant sense of magic, the last one has totally killed it with "mortal" urges and needs. The story felt rushed and rather dispersed, with new characters and plots that could have been better picked among the many possible threads the previous 3 books let loose.
I did, however, appreciate the writer's language and wide choice of words, as always!
The (3.5 not 4) 4 stars out of 5 is for the entire series and the hope that book#6 will make up for this one!
I have been lucky enough to find the "Tears of Artamon" series in the last year and so I have read them in a sequence.
If the first books did success in transmitting a rather thick and pleasant sense of magic, the last one has totally killed it with "mortal" urges and needs. The story felt rushed and rather dispersed, with new characters and plots that could have been better picked among the many possible threads the previous 3 books let loose.
I did, however, appreciate the writer's language and wide choice of words, as always!
City of Dragons by Robin Hobb
3.0
Interesting to see all the characters continue on their journey, alas I feel it it loses a bit of intensity and also the author tries to satisfy the needs of a more "modern" audience which is not necessarily going that well with the fantasy genre.
Keen to read the last one and see the series come to a conclusion
Keen to read the last one and see the series come to a conclusion
Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb
1.0
A plain example of a book that tries to please a multitude of readers (most diverse) by butchering the Fantasy Genre!
A total failure in the series, which saw an increasing declining from book 1 to book 4..
Many things I've wanted to see develop in book 4, hoping the series will recover, yet it was all a disappointment,
Instead of developing on stronger things that we have been told in the previous books, we are introduced to a new element, which none of the previous tales even alluded at, and it keeps on dragging on with a dizzying head-hopping until I wished I never started reading it.
Sedric could have taken a lead role in the plot, developing the one good element of book 3, the relation with his dragon, who he tried to kill.. instead he is happy to have found "new love" and all the rest does not even matter.
A total failure in the series, which saw an increasing declining from book 1 to book 4..
Many things I've wanted to see develop in book 4, hoping the series will recover, yet it was all a disappointment,
Instead of developing on stronger things that we have been told in the previous books, we are introduced to a new element, which none of the previous tales even alluded at, and it keeps on dragging on with a dizzying head-hopping until I wished I never started reading it.
Sedric could have taken a lead role in the plot, developing the one good element of book 3, the relation with his dragon, who he tried to kill.. instead he is happy to have found "new love" and all the rest does not even matter.
The Dwarves by Markus Heitz
4.0
A hefty read that does not disappoint.
Only thing I could say is that it feels too crammed - paragraphs/characters often are not given the proper space and this makes it a bit heavy for the reader.
Only thing I could say is that it feels too crammed - paragraphs/characters often are not given the proper space and this makes it a bit heavy for the reader.