A thing that makes me feel queasy is how the people around Eliana and Rielle are borderline obsessed with them (Simon? Corien? Heck even Tal?). Borderline Obsession and Possessive when it comes to “love”.Say hello to my spoiler included ranting : The side characters (who are way more interesting) are left to clean up her mess. Frankly she can be straight up rude with a lack of basic decency, and she has a tendency to screw things around her without thinking about anyone else but herself. She is not a protagonist I would like to root for. She’s a big part into why I finished the book. Rielle had a slightly dislikable start but as the book progresses I was more interested in her story because she developed into a stronger albeit flawed heroine with good intentions.
The world building and magical system is so well written and vivid, Legrand made a great job of getting me immersed in the book. The pacing was death at the beginning and you’ll feel like DNFing in the first 100-150 pages, It’s not really surprising to me because a lot of fantasy books tend to start slow to help the reader get acquainted with the setting and world system. This is just my personal opinion and I understand that different life circumstances can cause different perspectives regardless of age. Now looking at it from an adult’s pov (Using myself as an example): I’m a 23 year old who now has the awareness of what is toxic and what is not in a relationship, and though these kind of relationships are portrayed in books ( Game of Thrones, etc), I can be self aware to pin point these out and not get influenced by them. I don’t want a 14 or 15 year old reading this and thinking: “He treats me like shit and is aggressive = hot”.
If you’re willing to portray toxic relationships in my personal opinion they are better suited for adult books.
This is your one stop for all for The Empirium Trilogy, as usual this is a spoiler free review for all books and you will get a warning before hand for my spoilery opinions in the end.įor commentators if you’re going to post something that might be spoilery kindly write before hand some sort of warning so other readers don’t get spoiled!ĭisclaimer: By ordering the book via my Blackwell’s affiliate program, I receive a small commission at no extra cost from you.Ī thing that irked me in the books (specifically the last two) is forcing these toxic love interests together which is quite horrific to witness at times, because it reaches to the point of abuse.
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