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The Demon King
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July 15, 2019
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July 28, 2019
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Maggie
“History,” Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. “Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?”
“So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”


The Demon King is great introductory book which sets things up quite high for the future instalments.

The fantasy elements and world-building were interesting and though through, the problem in this one was that it felt info dumpy at times, more tell than show. But the little magic we got to see was great
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Mischa
Dec 16, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2020, 2012, male-pov, i-own
3,5*.
It was good - I enjoyed it and I loved the world Cinda created. BUT, still, there were some weird parts, plus I didn't really feel as if there was much going on in this book, no real action. But I'm definitely gonna read the next one.

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Reading this several years later, I enjoyed this more than I did back then. Probably also because my level of English is better than it was then, so I had no problem with the language and it was much more comfortable read. Up one star in ra
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Ivusha (Tenebien)
Jan 18, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, coverporn
Not really full 4 stars for me.
I really liked the book, but it felt quite slow for me even with all that politics and world-building. World-building is awesome in this series. I'm not kidding. I love it!
I also love our main characters, but would survive without all those Raisa's romances. :D I mean it's pretty much accurate, after all she's just a 15-year-old and you know... hormones. :D
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