Review: Angelbound

Angelbound by Christina Bauer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 Stars. Loope hole ruined the book.

I am having a hard time reviwing this book. Some books are very difficult to review because even though they miss few elements in the books there are always some flaw or loops in the books. The author took this book beautifully from the start to end.

The content is good enough to hook you up till the end but still it was a little bit unsatisfactory. The events were discribed in a very big way especially the wars but the after effects of wars was very dull. I think that was the biggest mmistake made by the authour. I cant tell what was wrong without spoling my review but i will try my best.

since its very difficult i will list the pros and cons of the book.

Cons

1) The attacks by demon on putagory was very vague, attack happened 17 years ago and within short span of 17 years the quasis forgot all about what they are and accepted everything thought by the ghouls. There were lot of questions which were left unaddressed like why angels didnt attacked to get the freedom back to the quasis.

2) The second attack was also very vague. We never got to know the after effects of war. It was more like war of only One Quasi Demon. What happened to the rest of them?

3) The politics among the five class of people was very vaguely kept. Ghouls were very strange. I dont believe that why Ghouls and Quasi alone didnt had any army?. If the Putragory was owned by the demons/ghouls why would they even allow quasi deplomats to live like the case of Zek's family?

4) The second attack shown in the book felt like as if the only quasi demons who should be left in the world has to be only 3 persons but we never knew what happened in it.

Long story short the plot had plenty of loop holes which in the end made the well written book unsatisfactory. May be the author should write a small novella of 0.5 & 1.5 to explain the two wars properly from various POV which will be better in understanding the book.
Pros.

1) The book went with its high and low like a wave due to which you will enjoy through out the book. Its not a slow start and pickup nor its a middle dry. It is well balaced and well paced.

2) Even though the book is more or less predictable but still author will keep it interested for you.

3) Like most of the High Fantasy book where authour never comes to the main plot and make a long route here we dont have no such thing.

4) The small arena fights, school pranks and romance at various bits kept the book very interesting.


If you can keep aside the loop hole which is like a ocean then you will enjoy the book plenty.

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Review: The Phoenix Born

The Phoenix Born by Kaitlyn Davis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have seen better works from kaitlyn davis. There is too much room for improvement in the book. The major draw back was how suddenly the heroine become so powerful. The dragons could have been better told. The riders POV was very rushed. The selection of riders everything which happens was told in a rushed way. The awakening of the riders felt useless unless for the ending. The creation of the dragons also felt like a big question mark. The author tried to add too much stuff in a small book. It would have been better with 500+ pages.

A heavily rushed ending to the slow started series. I wish the author had done a better work.



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Review: Emerald Green

Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was an amazing ending to the series but not the best work of the author.

The parts i liked:

The time traveling part was the best especially how the author linked everything in the end as if all was supposed to be happened the way it happened. Only thing i didn't understand was giving life to James. It would have changed the entire history but it didn't happen that's the only thing which was hard to understand, One life can change the entire history including existence of the time travelers so that part alone was mystery to me and i probably will call it as a "Book Sin".

Xemerius was my most favorite character in the entire book, he was just amazing. Especially all the background commentary was the awesome stuff and i enjoyed it a lot.

The parts i didn't like:

The romance section. I dont know may be its because of the book is translated but the romance was the worst part of the book. I didn't gwen that much as well and the worst thing is it was all written from the point of view of gwen.

Characters:

Gwen: The character could have been a whole lot better. She was a hormonal teenager with no maturity of whats so ever.

Gideon: He was more of mystery other than Gwen's constant rambling abt his eyes and how handsome he is.

Xemerius: The only character in the entire book who made the book very much enjoyable..His sense of humor was amazing. If not for him i dont think i would have been able to go through the Gwen's idiotic thoughts.

Final Verdict: The time travel is the best part and if you can ignore the hormonal teenager drama you will enjoy it but the 50% of book contains the teenage drama only.

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Review: The Cry of the Icemark

The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The book was good enough but there were many concept errors in it.

1) 14 year can be a good swordsment but u cant expect them to strategise for the army thats just little too much.
2) Too many wolves & leopard shown not possible to feed the large group in a small country as mentioned in the book.

The above two are the basic errors of the book and there are lot more which can be discussed over hours. If you can ignore past them u will like the book.

I enjoyed reading it though bcs i thought the heroine is 24 instead of 14 lol. The only plus point of the book is that it has been well narrated.

Can be a good read for the age group of 14-18.

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Review: Rebel of the Sands

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Rebel of the sands:

I was told that the story would leave me wanting for more and it wasn't a cliffhanger. But the truth is the book is a cliff hanger. It is not a end of this story. It was just an end of the first battle in the World of sands which has just began. The narrating style of the author was good but i didn't like the magical world. There was lot of problem with them. The stories of the magical beings .. their beginings.. the creation of the world was just impossible to gulp down but if you can ignore that.. it was a good one.

I can't wait to read more of this series...

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Review: Let The Game Begin

Let The Game Begin by Sandeep Sharma
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

An exceptional story.. The multiple POV kept the suspense but the story was way to hard to digest.. There are so many questions which were not answered in this book and many plot holes which makes it hard to digest...

The book started off with a dhoom 3 type investigation.. Our cop surya is brought into investigation bcs he is a chess player i mean seriously? And just like abi he really doesn't do anything except pointing out one thing which was obvious to anyone but not to our so called special force team who are supposed to be intelligents..

I must say the investigation team of this book was the most dumb team i ever read about... I mean they never did any research like going through CCTV recording of our PM or inside the department or tapping calls of the suspects relatives.. And this is just basic investigation procedure...

The climax of the book was good one.. The author brought many links open links of the book together and knitted them well but the entire concept fell a bit short.. because of the short fall of investigation... To me the investigation officers did nothing but hear some stories from our historian dinesh and vyaapi..

And just for the info of the author.. In Mahabharata they did not play chaturanga but an older version of ludo..

(view spoiler)[And most important of all the author told us relatively nothing about the curse at all .. The only hope i am having here is the part 2.. (hide spoiler)]

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Review: Frost Like Night

Frost Like Night by Sara Raasch
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

After a disappointing book 2.. The things actually did picked up well but the major spoiler was the ending.. I wanted to rate this book 4 star but i am reducing the one star just because of the climax of the series..

I was really expecting that the test of 3 gates will be good.. I mean after all they are guarding a magic source and only a person who is of good intention should be allowed to reach but the test which the characters went through were the most crappy tests i have expected meira to pass. To me Meira's character was spoiled through the book 2 and book 3.. I kept searching for the character which was started as Meira.. Usually over the series the character evolves but not in this case.. Here the character growth was in a downward trend..

The climax scene was the worst.. I had predicted it happening on the very beginning of the book where Mather is captured.. It was no wonder at all...

To me the only thing which actually evolved over the time was Children of thaw.. That was an really interesting concept..

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