Rainy Day Reads

This is the second and I assume final book of this series. Only read this review if you’ve read the first book as there are slight spoilers for “Six of Crows” ahead.   After the heist has been foiled our heroes try to regroup. There are massive obstacles in their way, but as always Kaz has a plan. He has many plans and I was constantly amazed by the long game he was playing. He always planned for any eventuality, which kept me on my toes throughout the entire book. There is a danger with books like this, that they become slightly repetitive and unbelievable, because of the sheer immensity of all these plans and eventualities. But that never happened in this book. The action is as breathtakingly quick as the last book, and the characters are even more developed and every single one of them had a place in my heart long before the book finished.  Even more gratifyingly my favorite ship set sail and sailed gloriously into the sunset by the end of this book and my co...

Challenges: Diversity Bingo 2017: Disabled Main Character This book has been on my TBR for a while, but I’ve been hesitating to pick it up, because it’s been SOOO hyped. I did also read Bardugo’s other work “The Grisha trilogy” or what it’s called these days, and wasn’t particularly fussed about it. But I have to say this book was way better than the trilogy and I can’t wait to pick up the second book.  In this book we follow a crew of thieves and outcasts who join together to perform a major heist. All the odds are stacked against them, but for some reason or other each person joins the crew and they set off in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles. The plot is insane, intricate and fast paced from the get go, but the characters are almost better. Every single one of them has a distinct voice and a well developed persona, and we slowly unravel their stories and see what has brought them to be outcasts in the first place.  As for representation there...

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...