Queen of Shadows
2 journalers for this copy...
Story keeps getting better , only annoying thing in this was was the character of Chaol , self pity just made him so boring
going to nefertari for wishlist tag
Arrived safely today.
“The Queen of Terrasen was in a fighting pit in the slums of Rifthold. No one here, he’d wager, would believe it. He was hardly able to believe it himself.”
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Here we are again, squeezing a Throne of Glass Book in before the year’s end. I’m hardly able to believe it myself. I’m torn when it comes to Queen of Shadows because it is a page turner, and teenage me would have obsessed over it, but the issue is that I’m an adult and the book is fairly ridiculous to my adult mind.
The quotation above sums it up for me: very little here makes sense or is believable. I just can’t suspend my disbelief that this arrogant nineteen year old is somehow a strategic genius, the love interest of almost everyone, and a wise and wonderful leader. Oh, and self-proclaimed best assassin in the world.
[Side note: that speech in Rifthold when she walks through the hole in the glass wall near the end? Massive cringe. What was she thinking?]
In fact, virtually every character in the book is either completely good or completely evil. There are only two who are not: Manon Blackbeak and Kaltain Rompier, the former of these is the only character worth reading for much of the book. By the end of the book, even these two shades-of-grey have found a side.
There’s only one thing that can save this series now, I think, and it’s not the Queen of Terrasen and her ‘court’. It’s actions and events actually having some consequences for the characters, to make me care what has and what will happen to them.
Pressing onward, I’m planning to tandem read Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn, but I don’t know if I will survive the amount of eye-rolling that will require!
🙄
Here we are again, squeezing a Throne of Glass Book in before the year’s end. I’m hardly able to believe it myself. I’m torn when it comes to Queen of Shadows because it is a page turner, and teenage me would have obsessed over it, but the issue is that I’m an adult and the book is fairly ridiculous to my adult mind.
The quotation above sums it up for me: very little here makes sense or is believable. I just can’t suspend my disbelief that this arrogant nineteen year old is somehow a strategic genius, the love interest of almost everyone, and a wise and wonderful leader. Oh, and self-proclaimed best assassin in the world.
[Side note: that speech in Rifthold when she walks through the hole in the glass wall near the end? Massive cringe. What was she thinking?]
In fact, virtually every character in the book is either completely good or completely evil. There are only two who are not: Manon Blackbeak and Kaltain Rompier, the former of these is the only character worth reading for much of the book. By the end of the book, even these two shades-of-grey have found a side.
There’s only one thing that can save this series now, I think, and it’s not the Queen of Terrasen and her ‘court’. It’s actions and events actually having some consequences for the characters, to make me care what has and what will happen to them.
Pressing onward, I’m planning to tandem read Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn, but I don’t know if I will survive the amount of eye-rolling that will require!
