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The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)
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bookshelves: action-adventure, freebies-and-gifts, carnage-and-mayhem, dark-fantasy-and-paranormal, wtf-just-happened
Apr 07, 2019
bookshelves: action-adventure, freebies-and-gifts, carnage-and-mayhem, dark-fantasy-and-paranormal, wtf-just-happened
Look.
I cannot count the number of times this book had me feeling confused.
There are so many names and most are hard to pronounce and often similar so it was incredibly difficult to keep track of who was who and what was what. Then you throw in the genealogy and the adultery and the body snatching and the illusions and I DON'T KNOW WHO ANYONE IS.
There's a boy.
There's a witch.
There's a flirty magic boy.
There's an old sorcerer dude.
There's a tyrant. (Actually several).
There's a wimp.
There's a dragon.
There's also X who is secretly Y but is actually secretly Z and that is the case for, like, half the characters. Basically, no one is who they seem to be.
But you know what? Despite regularly having no clue what was happening, I still really enjoyed this book. It's a rare occasion that I get invested in the story when I don't really care for the characters. I didn't start warming up to this band of misfits until about 350 or so pages in so props to the story for keeping me entertained that far.
There's a lot of variety and magic here, making the whole thing pretty epic. I DID want more dinosaurs, though. I got so excited when they showed up, but they didn't hang around nearly long enough for me. Sigh. But there's lots about gods and demons and monsters and magic and reincarnation and it all gets so messy but who the heck cares because it's SO MUCH FUN.
So I'm gonna keep it brief for now and just say that I really enjoyed the crazy ride this book took me on. It was so bizarre to just be so out of it and yet so thoroughly entertained all the same.
Fingers crossed the next installment has some more detailed family trees though. The one at the back here really did not help in the slightest.
I cannot count the number of times this book had me feeling confused.
There are so many names and most are hard to pronounce and often similar so it was incredibly difficult to keep track of who was who and what was what. Then you throw in the genealogy and the adultery and the body snatching and the illusions and I DON'T KNOW WHO ANYONE IS.
There's a boy.
There's a witch.
There's a flirty magic boy.
There's an old sorcerer dude.
There's a tyrant. (Actually several).
There's a wimp.
There's a dragon.
There's also X who is secretly Y but is actually secretly Z and that is the case for, like, half the characters. Basically, no one is who they seem to be.
But you know what? Despite regularly having no clue what was happening, I still really enjoyed this book. It's a rare occasion that I get invested in the story when I don't really care for the characters. I didn't start warming up to this band of misfits until about 350 or so pages in so props to the story for keeping me entertained that far.
There's a lot of variety and magic here, making the whole thing pretty epic. I DID want more dinosaurs, though. I got so excited when they showed up, but they didn't hang around nearly long enough for me. Sigh. But there's lots about gods and demons and monsters and magic and reincarnation and it all gets so messy but who the heck cares because it's SO MUCH FUN.
So I'm gonna keep it brief for now and just say that I really enjoyed the crazy ride this book took me on. It was so bizarre to just be so out of it and yet so thoroughly entertained all the same.
Fingers crossed the next installment has some more detailed family trees though. The one at the back here really did not help in the slightest.
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Reading Progress
November 30, 2018
– Shelved
November 30, 2018
– Shelved as:
to-read
November 30, 2018
– Shelved as:
action-adventure
November 30, 2018
– Shelved as:
freebies-and-gifts
February 23, 2019
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Started Reading
March 9, 2019
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13.21%
"Once again I have no idea what's happening. Too many strange names to keep track!"
page
74
March 15, 2019
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17.68%
"I need to dedicate more time to this. Once you get past all the hard-to-pronounce stuff, it's actually really good."
page
99
March 21, 2019
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30.71%
"Oh snap. Did this book just introduce dinosaurs?? I think it just introduced dinosaurs. Just gonna take a min to lose my mind over here."
page
172
March 27, 2019
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45.0%
"Okay but can we bring the dinosaurs back out to play please coz that was too brief a cameo for my liking. Sorry, DRAKES. Just, BRING."
page
252
April 5, 2019
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66.79%
"I think there's a puzzle I'm supposed to be putting together here but it's so confusing I actually have no clue what's happening. But I'm still enjoying it? *shrugs*"
page
374
April 7, 2019
– Shelved as:
carnage-and-mayhem
April 7, 2019
– Shelved as:
dark-fantasy-and-paranormal
April 7, 2019
– Shelved as:
wtf-just-happened
April 7, 2019
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Finished Reading
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Apr 07, 2019 04:58PM
Wow! Sounds crazy! I hope you've kept some notes for who's who before you start the next book. I had that problem reading GoT with all the different characters and that was fairly well organised!
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Carolyn wrote: "Wow! Sounds crazy! I hope you've kept some notes for who's who before you start the next book. I had that problem reading GoT with all the different characters and that was fairly well organised!"I'll have to do a flow chart or something lol. GoT was really hard to keep track of! Wasn't until I watched a few seasons of the show that I figured out who everyone was lol
Alex wrote: "5 star review.":)
Haha you capture my thoughts perfectly! I was so confused a lot of the time but I still really enjoyed this.
Lexie wrote: "Haha you capture my thoughts perfectly! I was so confused a lot of the time but I still really enjoyed this."So glad I'm not alone haha :)
