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Interesting notion at play here, of what happens after, as a Chosen One, you defeat the Big Bad, then have to live your life. How do you deal with the emotional and physical aftermath, the fame and the expectations?
I liked how well the story flowed. I liked the main character’s constant struggle with her mental health, and her unwillingness to just smile and be happy for everyone else’s sakes.
That said, I never warmed to the main character, and felt a low-grade crankiness the whole time I was re ...more
I liked how well the story flowed. I liked the main character’s constant struggle with her mental health, and her unwillingness to just smile and be happy for everyone else’s sakes.
That said, I never warmed to the main character, and felt a low-grade crankiness the whole time I was re ...more
2.5 stars rounded up.I found this very slow and quite tedious to get through. There was some good stuff in here but not enough to keep me entertained.
Jan 12, 2021
Di Maitland
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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action-girl,
audiobook,
magic,
sci-fi,
very-old-characters,
damaged,
fantasy,
young-adult,
prophecy,
superheroes
4.5*s. I LOVED this book. I admit, I was expecting to cringe at the teen drama, roll my eyes at the tropes and groan at the cookie-cutter characters, but I couldn't have been more wrong. It's still very much a young adult novel, and certainly includes a lot of tropes, but it does so calculatedly and I thoroughly enjoyed both the writing and the concept.
Always famous but always fading, the way old movie stars were, carrying ghosts of their younger selves in their faces. It was a strange thing, to...more
Enjoyable dystopian. My main gripe is that this is billed as an adult fantasy- it doesn’t read like one. Very much in keeping with her YAs I’d have said.
Young teens are needed to fight the big bad. Years later, they’re called on to finish the job. It entertained me on a wet afternoon.
Young teens are needed to fight the big bad. Years later, they’re called on to finish the job. It entertained me on a wet afternoon.
Dec 10, 2019
Christina Pilkington
marked it as tbr-future
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review of another edition
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genre-fantasy
