Reviews and Comments

Very very slow, the ending was not worth it. Not particularly believable.

It was unpredictable only because I didn't think the author would be so predictable.

Easy reading, the plot is low-stakes and a little boring, but it's a relaxing story.

The writing wasn't great, especially at the start, but the plot held up really well. I'm curious to see where the following 4 books take the series, I feel this could have been wrapped up easily in one book, I'm not seeing there's much more story to tell, but this book was solid enough that I'll check out the next in series.

This book crosses a lot of genres - fastasy, romance, dystopian. It was pretty slow until about 40% in, and the romance wasn't until 80% in, and the dystopia didn't really come in much at all for the majority of the book.

Regardless, if you're willing to trek through the first 40%, the rest of the book is a solid 4. Characters were in-depth and it's easy to care about what happens to them. The dragons aren't overly involved but still plot-relevant. There's plenty of room for the story to grow so I'll definitely pick up the next book.

Couldn't put it down, despite having already watched the movie. Perfect amount of world-building, very interesting and dynamic world, cast of characters were individual and well-developed. Really liked Cinna, even better than the movies. Haymitch was also great, looking forward to learning more about him in the prequel.

Immersive, with an ending that was different and unexpected but that fit well with the storyline.

Great book, but I do agree with others about the tokenism of Jeri, a genderfluid character. The portrayal of Jeri likely did more harm than good if the author's intent was to positively introduce a new way of experiencing gender. A few well-written lines would have gone a lot further than multiple pages of why Jeri's gender changes (literally) with the weather.

But overall, just a really good story, the characters were deep and well-written, even more peripheral characters like Rand and Tyger. I would have liked to see Goddard's character given more depth (prequel maybe?). But the author really fleshed out an entire world.

This feels like an opinion piece on why we should keep secrets from our partners. She claims her views are feminist but it seems to just be a new type of misogyny, claiming women have power in how they are socialized to better communicate their feelings (true) and should give their male partners a pass and understand men express those same feelings in bed (yikes).

I appreciate a nontraditional take (hence 2 stars instead of 1), but the author seems to have her own deep-seated fear of intimacy coloring the pages and there is little to no evidence to back up her advice.