Rainy Day Reads

This is the third and final book of the Grisha trilogy. It is hard to say too much about the book without spoilers, as it is the final book of a series, but I’ll give it a go! We follow Alina’s point of view, and as a result I feel like most of the characters aren’t really that fleshed out. We get to know Alina’s thoughts and cares, but we only see the other characters through her eyes. I almost always feel slightly disappointed by this, when a book is told in first person perspective, but I don’t see how it can be done better without changing the perspective. Which I personally wouldn’t mind.  There is practically no world-building in this book, which is really as it should be, as the world ought to be set up by the third book. As for the magic system I did have some trouble with it. It seemed awfully convenient and not very logical the way the magic would work and react to certain events. So I struggled a bit with that, especially the thing at the end where the magic shi...

This is the second book of the Grisha trilogy, and I really liked it. There is not really too much to say without spoiling it, since it is a second book, so I’ll keep it short.   I think I actually liked this book a tad better than the first, just because I felt like there was more action in this one. Obviously a second book does not have to deal with as much world building as the first in a series, so there is time for more action and character development. I didn’t really feel like we got the latter though. The known characters remained much the same, and we didn’t really delve any deeper into them. The story is told from Alina’s perspective, so I guess it wasn’t really possible to dig deeper unless she did. And more often than not she didn’t. We also meet some new characters and I feel much the same about these.  As for the plot, in the beginning I felt like it was sort of in a rut. Someone is captured, then they escape, then they are captured again and escape agai...

This book is the first book in the Grisha series. It is quite short compared to some other fantasy books that can surpass the 500 page mark. This book was about 350 pages, and while that sounds like a long book, they pages were quick to read, as they were rather small and the font was quite large.   As for the plot I liked it. It moved along quite nicely, except for a little bit of a slow patch in the middle, but just as I was starting to wonder what could possibly take up the rest of the book, something happened that took the plot in a completely different direction. As I said, I liked the plot, but it didn’t have me on the edge of my seat most of the time. It just ambled along nicely until the end of the book, when it became more thrilling.  I wasn’t terribly invested in the fate of the characters. I think maybe just because the book was rather short, so the characters were for the most part described and developed rather summarily. But I did think that the set of c...