I come bearing book reviews!
I've decided, due to lack of excitement in my life, alongside with nothing note-worthy to contribute, to start posting my book reviews! :)
I've finally started compiling a list of recent books I've been reading, and what I thought of them because I can't keep them straight in my head!
If anyone has any book recommendations feel free to share!
Oh, and feel free to drop by my Goodreads page to see old reviews, I going to start with this one review, and post future ones accordingly, so I don't flood!
And I only chose this one book review because I hate the damn book so much I was editing it!
Fire by Kristin Cashore
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
OMG!!!!!!
CRAPPIEST BOOK EVER!!!!
I feel like I lost part of my SOUL, it was so bad!
Honestly, I don't know how it went so wrong!!!
Graceling was so awesome, I expected this to be the same!
At the end of Graceling there's a little excerpt of Fire, and it seemed like it would be equally as awesome, if a bit more tragic!
The prologue was all prequel to Graceling x-amount of years ago, when the Evil Overlord was just a Pint-Sized Evil Overlord, and that was INTERESTING! My brain was all like "Yay! Insights into the Evil Overlord Mindset? Yes PUH-LEASE!!!" I was so excited.
And then I actually read the book.
ARGH! This book was just so frustrating! And I've read a lot of crappy books, but this one was so deceitful!
Okay, so, the entire premise of the book was like Rare, Beautiful, Human/Monster. Named Fire. Because of her hair. Which is beyond Beautiful. Of Course. Insert eye roll here.
And everyone wants a piece, because omg, she's just so fricking beautiful, people loose all reason and bad shit happens.
...Fine, you caught me. I don't ACTUALLY remember what happens in the book, the memory was probably so traumatic, my brain has blocked it out of self-defense...
But I do remember Fire being independent, strong and willful in the beginning of the book, and then regressing into this weak, helpless, beautiful, pathetic THING as we progress.
I mean, what is the point of telling readers how able-bodied your main character is, just to tear her down in the most demeaning of ways, by having her world revolve around men? Seriously. What the eff?
I don't even think this book had a PLOT, of goodness sake! So the reason that Fire was brought to the capital from the country, was that she supposedly possessed this amazing talent for whatever, because she's this beautiful, mind-controlling monster, that could help with the war or something. Okay, that's fine, books have been based on stupider things. Except it's like the author forgot about that. Fire was exponentially useless in the palace, she contributed to NOTHING. It was just all a bunch of lowly, unworthy men falling all over themselves for beautiful, gorgeous, vulnerable Fire.
Until the one man that hates her/is secretly in love with her (of course, *eye roll*), shows her that he is full of honour and good, noble intentions, and loves her for more that her ridiculously beautiful face. Which can't be right, because I'm pretty sure he fell in love with her crying, sad face. Which was obviously even more beautiful than her happy, smiling face. Duh. Not to mention, kinda creepy.
I mean, that is, after he emotionally abuses her for the entire length of the novel, which means that naturally, Fire is also secretly in love with this man for the entire length of the novel. Right.
What the hell kind of message is that supposed to send to young people reading this book?!? GAH!!!! It makes me SO MAD!
Another thing that drove me crazy, was pregnant 15 or 16 yr old with much older man, maybe possibly having a stable future with another much MUCH older man. What the hell? It's not so much the age difference that bothers me, I get that it's based in a much different time, but this maybe-union at the end just feels like a last ditch effort to tie up loose ends. Like "Oh yeah, I forgot I knocked up a teenaged girl! Hmmmm, let's see who's single, that's still alive, that we can pair her up with... I choose YOU! ...By default!"
So fucking messy. I hate that. There is no reason why those two should be together, much less why this teenage pregnancy had to happen in the first place, let alone why the author felt the need to include this character at all! No value added whatsoever.
The ending was crap too. So not worth the effort.
And what happened to the Mini Evil Overlord, you ask?
Nothing of consequence. So much so, that I don't even know WHY he was in the book, much less featured in the prologue. It makes NO SENSE!! Again, a HUGE disconnect with the plot, character, setting, events, EVERYTHING. Nothing really fit together.
In my opinion.
In an attempt to be fair though, maybe I read the book wrong...? And assigned meaning to things that weren't there, or didn't fully understand it...?
Or, you know, maybe this book was just a whole lot of crap.
Whatever.
Read it for yourself and find out!
View all my reviews
I've finally started compiling a list of recent books I've been reading, and what I thought of them because I can't keep them straight in my head!
If anyone has any book recommendations feel free to share!
Oh, and feel free to drop by my Goodreads page to see old reviews, I going to start with this one review, and post future ones accordingly, so I don't flood!
And I only chose this one book review because I hate the damn book so much I was editing it!
Fire by Kristin Cashore
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
OMG!!!!!!
CRAPPIEST BOOK EVER!!!!
I feel like I lost part of my SOUL, it was so bad!
Honestly, I don't know how it went so wrong!!!
Graceling was so awesome, I expected this to be the same!
At the end of Graceling there's a little excerpt of Fire, and it seemed like it would be equally as awesome, if a bit more tragic!
The prologue was all prequel to Graceling x-amount of years ago, when the Evil Overlord was just a Pint-Sized Evil Overlord, and that was INTERESTING! My brain was all like "Yay! Insights into the Evil Overlord Mindset? Yes PUH-LEASE!!!" I was so excited.
And then I actually read the book.
ARGH! This book was just so frustrating! And I've read a lot of crappy books, but this one was so deceitful!
Okay, so, the entire premise of the book was like Rare, Beautiful, Human/Monster. Named Fire. Because of her hair. Which is beyond Beautiful. Of Course. Insert eye roll here.
And everyone wants a piece, because omg, she's just so fricking beautiful, people loose all reason and bad shit happens.
...Fine, you caught me. I don't ACTUALLY remember what happens in the book, the memory was probably so traumatic, my brain has blocked it out of self-defense...
But I do remember Fire being independent, strong and willful in the beginning of the book, and then regressing into this weak, helpless, beautiful, pathetic THING as we progress.
I mean, what is the point of telling readers how able-bodied your main character is, just to tear her down in the most demeaning of ways, by having her world revolve around men? Seriously. What the eff?
I don't even think this book had a PLOT, of goodness sake! So the reason that Fire was brought to the capital from the country, was that she supposedly possessed this amazing talent for whatever, because she's this beautiful, mind-controlling monster, that could help with the war or something. Okay, that's fine, books have been based on stupider things. Except it's like the author forgot about that. Fire was exponentially useless in the palace, she contributed to NOTHING. It was just all a bunch of lowly, unworthy men falling all over themselves for beautiful, gorgeous, vulnerable Fire.
Until the one man that hates her/is secretly in love with her (of course, *eye roll*), shows her that he is full of honour and good, noble intentions, and loves her for more that her ridiculously beautiful face. Which can't be right, because I'm pretty sure he fell in love with her crying, sad face. Which was obviously even more beautiful than her happy, smiling face. Duh. Not to mention, kinda creepy.
I mean, that is, after he emotionally abuses her for the entire length of the novel, which means that naturally, Fire is also secretly in love with this man for the entire length of the novel. Right.
What the hell kind of message is that supposed to send to young people reading this book?!? GAH!!!! It makes me SO MAD!
Another thing that drove me crazy, was pregnant 15 or 16 yr old with much older man, maybe possibly having a stable future with another much MUCH older man. What the hell? It's not so much the age difference that bothers me, I get that it's based in a much different time, but this maybe-union at the end just feels like a last ditch effort to tie up loose ends. Like "Oh yeah, I forgot I knocked up a teenaged girl! Hmmmm, let's see who's single, that's still alive, that we can pair her up with... I choose YOU! ...By default!"
So fucking messy. I hate that. There is no reason why those two should be together, much less why this teenage pregnancy had to happen in the first place, let alone why the author felt the need to include this character at all! No value added whatsoever.
The ending was crap too. So not worth the effort.
And what happened to the Mini Evil Overlord, you ask?
Nothing of consequence. So much so, that I don't even know WHY he was in the book, much less featured in the prologue. It makes NO SENSE!! Again, a HUGE disconnect with the plot, character, setting, events, EVERYTHING. Nothing really fit together.
In my opinion.
In an attempt to be fair though, maybe I read the book wrong...? And assigned meaning to things that weren't there, or didn't fully understand it...?
Or, you know, maybe this book was just a whole lot of crap.
Whatever.
Read it for yourself and find out!
View all my reviews