I get it, it's cool for certain characters to let everything go and become the solo hero. First he is not really human because? Eragon, see point number one.Īnd then the ending. He did everything to overcome his upbringing and become a good ruler.īut it was all negated in the end. Rez was making progress with his humanity, learning as he went and discovering, very slowly what it was to feel and love his friends, his people. The books that are not as fresh as the beginning and not as exciting as the ending, but which are there to build towards the climax and which are usually used to demonstrate character arcs, beautiful amazing, character arc. Why not continue their story and start to build to their conclusion?Įvery writer of a series talks about the marathon of the middle. We already had a cool world and characters that we wanted to follow. Spoiler: ( Animal warriors, people duplicating themselves, but then we don't see them again, love triangles without any stakes, elves and dragons, spirits that we see for two seconds. It feels like a first book where the author tries to stuff as many cool stuff as possible without reason. And yet, here we have new supernatural groups one after the other, completely forgetting the charaters and plot points previously made. By the fifth book, the world should be at least established and we should move on and develop what is already there. And we don't continue on any of the path that were paved in the previous books. I feel like the author had a lot of ideas and tropes that she likes, but she went and stuffed them all in there without any of them being developed or meaning anything. There was an amazing sale on tropes, so I took a dozen ! Rez was original, in his way of thinking, in his actions, he was different form what we were used to seeing these last few years.Ģ.

It's not on brand with the main character we all grew to love and it pains me greatly. We don't need another dude with a dragon egg pining after an elven beauty. It showed the modern twist in this old fantasy trope. Aelvanon were supposed to be an ancient race, almost forgotten and that was perfect. The whole elves arc felt forced and pointless in the overarching plot.

I get it, elves and dragons are cool and all, but it should maybe have been saved for a future story, it doesn't fit in the way this series was going.

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