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King Breaker (2013)

by Rowena Cory Daniells(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1781081506 (ISBN13: 9781781081501)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Solaris

series

King Rolen's Kin

review 1: My first and biggest complaint about this book is that the composition felt all wrong. There were too many pages dedicated to extraneous, unnecessary things and not enough pages to resolve all the plot points. There was a whole section where Piro runs away from where she is, fakes her way onto a boat, rides out storms and other nasty things across the ocean, gets to the other side of the sea, literally stays there for a few minutes and gets spotted by bad guys, hides in a cart, gets shanked by accident while hiding in a crate, the crate gets put on a ship which heads back to her original port of call, and comes right back where she started from. It was wasted space and time to do nothing, for either the story or character development. There were many examples of this k... moreind of nonsense break from the storyline that added nothing to plot.Then there was not enough time spent on the important things. Garzik's story and the Utland storyline gets no resolution really. That was a wasted opportunity I think, where there could have been a merging of storylines in really interesting ways. We get nothing but surface level stuff from almost every character. The only good character was Orrade, and he gets no real story arc for himself, which is a shame. The story ends with loose ends dangling and no real satisfaction. I'm sorry to say it wasn't really up there as a good series as a whole. The premise and the world has potential, but it was never realized.
review 2: I was rather disappointed by this book. It ended up being a lot longer than it needed to be, and I felt like it dragged on and on. There were also a lot of random grammatical errors that could have been easily fixed by a good editor- simple errors really take away from the story.The story itself was okay, but pretty predictable. Everything worked out just as it was supposed to, although it got very tiresome to get constantly reminded of the love triangles between all the characters. If you enjoyed the series, you will enjoy the last book as well. I wouldn't recommend spending the time on the book if you've mostly been slogging through the series. less

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