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Amazing ending to an excellent series

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-08-24

I loved it. And I’m so happy with how it all played out. The narration was perfect and the characters are some of my favorites ever!

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Good story and world but awful narration and simplistic writing.

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-11-24

This is one of those extremely rare instances where the film that was based on the book is actually better than the book. The writing, for me, was very meh. It felt stilted and the dialogue was almost unreadable. The characters lacked depth and the relationships between them were never fully fleshed out. All in all, it lacked deep emotion.

And then there’s the narration. It got the job done, that’s all I can really say. The narrator made zero effort to differentiate between people groups with accents, zero effort to change his vocal pitch or tone to differentiate main characters, and literally pronounced Chani as “Chay-nee.” He is fully capable of saying thing like Shai-Hulud (shai-hoo-lood) and jihad (gee-hahd), but he decided to go with “chay-nee?” Wow.

This audiobook is SCREAMING for a new narrator and recording. I recommend Tim Gerard Reynolds, Steven Pacey, and Adjoa Andoh, for starters. Can we please make that happen?

All in all, I’m glad I read the book. I will continue on with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.

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Unique story with amazing characters

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-03-24

What a wild ride! I’m hooked on this series for sure. While I don’t love the number of times the author tried to do the “unreliable narrator reveal” but ended up with more of a deus ex machina feel, I still couldn’t put it down and was not at all prepared for the big reveal at the end. And the narrator’s performance was great!

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A long but worthwhile epic. Beautifully crafted.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-24-22

This book is beautiful. Philip might be one of my favorite characters of all time. I feel like every facet of human nature is fully examined and given the depth it all deserves. Nothing is glossed over. For having been written in 1989, it reads like it was written in 2020. It is a classic. No holds barred 5 stars.

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Great idea, poor execution

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-11-22

This book had the potential to be really really great. Instead, it read like a caricatured and over-done version of an inspirational novel.

The plot points felt stilted and forced. The entire character of Mad was so unbelievable that I literally physically cringed every time she spoke. I don’t care how intellectually advanced a 4 year old is, they are still FOUR YEARS OLD and are not capable of acting like an experienced, aware, emotionally mature young adult.

Mad aside, though, I mostly enjoyed the first half of the book. The second half was where it lost me. Each scene felt…forced.

It almost reads like a book that was really amazing in its original language but got a bad translation.

I did not hate it. It had a lot of elements that I enjoyed. But overall, I felt that the overarching message of the story was over-told and caricatured. And I was so “over” the writing style and the feeling of being forced to feel what the author wanted me to feel that I ultimately DNF-ed it with 90 minutes left. I will probably come back and finish it, but I just couldn’t deal anymore.

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Spectacular and epic journey

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-09-22

The third book in the Green Bone Saga is the most exciting, inspiring, heart rending, epically finished book of the whole series. It has everything I could ever want in the final book of a series and I am so happy with the incredible ending.

This is a must-read series for fantasy lovers of all kinds. A game changer.

My only gripe with all the books is that the narrator is really not my favorite. The way he reads makes people and situations sound childish at times. For the most part it’s a decent narration, but I feel that someone like Steven Pacey or Tim Gerard Reynolds would make the series sound like the true epic that it is.

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I didn’t want to like it, but I did 😄

Total
4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-30-22

I was prepared to be disappointed but I really liked this book! 4 stars. My only gripe is that the overlap of time with the last book was a bit boring at times. Yes, it was from a different character’s perspective…but I find it tedious and frustrating to hear about the same exact events that I’ve already read about in another book but from someone else’s perspective. Of course Danielle kept it interesting, and I love these characters.

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Might be in my all-time favorites. Complex, thought provoking, action packed.

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-02-22

An excellent series, well worth the credits. It’s a great follow up to Rage of Dragons and a series that has been on my mind daily since I finished this book. Evan Winter has created a layered story that explores so many themes that I never got bored.

My only two gripes are:

There are multiple vague allusions to Tao being more than *just* who he is (in both the first and second book) but at the end of this book it’s still pretty clear that he is “just” a man. He has no gift, no magic, no divine blessing, and yet he does things and endures things that no human could ever endure all while sleeping for what appears to be about 1-5 hours a week. It was so unbelievable that it made me feel so tired and almost caused me pain with how much pain and suffering Tao goes through. I kept waiting for him to just fall over and not wake up for a week from fatigue and pain. I don’t think it’s physically possible for a person without magic to do what he does, and as far as we know he does not have any magic at all. But there are a few short passages (like a few sentences in the whole story) that allude to him being “more” than he is. So I guess we will have to wait and see when the next book comes out.

And the descriptions of the demons are beyond terrifying. I know, I know…if they are so vividly described that I can see them in my mind and I’m as terrified as those who see them are, then Winter has clearly succeeded, right? Logically, the answer is yes. As far as the story goes, I feel like I was far more terrified than any of the characters were, except for maybe Tao.

And that actually is one of the great things about Tao’s character. He is 100% terrified, in pain, desperate, angry, tortured, unsure, lost, and afraid. Yet he does what he does anyway. He continues on when others would not. He refuses to break. He endures the unimaginable and fights because he doesn’t know what else he can or even should do: he just does the next right thing with what he knows about himself and the world he is in. He’s a hero but he’s flawed and grey and so human. His rage is neither wrong nor right—it just is.

I LOVED the ending. This being an epic tale, I knew that the end of the second book wouldn’t wrap up all of the storylines that are going at once (there are, like, 4+?). And the ending felt pretty hopeless right up until the final scene. That final scene was really great and a perfectly crafted twist that allowed me to relax just enough that I am not feeling like I’m on the edge of a cliff while still leaving the whole story wide open and making me desperate for the next book.

I read/listen to anywhere from 100-150 books a year and this one may have made its way into my top 5 series of all time list. I cannot wait to see what Winter gives us in the next book(s). I’m a fan.

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Don’t get bogged down in the time jump—this is “gold.”

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-22-22

The fourth Red Rising book takes a bit to get used to, but it is well worth it. Pierce Brown’s writing gets better and better with each book.

My only and biggest gripe is that the narrator for Lysander is AWFUL and it really, really takes away from the story. I have to literally try to hear Lysander’s parts in my own voice in my head to fully get into it. I would have preferred TGR or literally ANYONE else to have narrated his POV.

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Incredible

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-04-19

The layers of stories, the perspective, the realism, and the deep empathy in this story is well worth your time.

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