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A review by ashley_mrose530
Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
This book was unfortunately very disappointing.
First of all the plot was very out of the blue. I don't remember any foreshadowing of this in the first two books. It felt very much like a completely different book and probably could have been a series of its own. It felt very packed in and because of that everything felt rushed.
There was also very little world building. We didn't need it for the main magic system because it was already explained in the first two books, but I didn't understand the new magic that were brought in during this book. The people who have these powerful axes that transform them and the people who control the vines. They both seemed to have a completely different magic system with different rules and we weren't clued into them at all. I couldn't even really understand what the medallion's powers were.
There was just so much stuffed into this book and not enough pages to develop it all properly.
My biggest gripe though, the main reason why this book felt almost completely separate from the other two books, was that the character arcs were either unfinished or completely rushed and not fully fleshed out like they should have been.
First, Roan was like completely forgotten about. He was such a big character in the second book and his romance with Zelie actually had me rooting for them just for him to be nonexistent in this book. It was really disappointing. And then Amari had a huge villain arc in the second book so I was expecting the redemption arc for this one and it was... there... kind of. We got her realizing her mistakes and working to change but Zelie and Tzain's forgiveness didn't seem earned or won over at all. It was just given just because. This was also affected by the rushing of the whole book in my opinion.
Overall, I think this series was very much not thought out beforehand because I did notice some of these issues when going from the first book to the second, but the arcs of the second book made me forgive its flaws with its connections, but this one didn't give me any of that and just left me wishing the second book had been the ending instead.
First of all the plot was very out of the blue. I don't remember any foreshadowing of this in the first two books. It felt very much like a completely different book and probably could have been a series of its own. It felt very packed in and because of that everything felt rushed.
There was also very little world building. We didn't need it for the main magic system because it was already explained in the first two books, but I didn't understand the new magic that were brought in during this book. The people who have these powerful axes that transform them and the people who control the vines. They both seemed to have a completely different magic system with different rules and we weren't clued into them at all. I couldn't even really understand what the medallion's powers were.
There was just so much stuffed into this book and not enough pages to develop it all properly.
My biggest gripe though, the main reason why this book felt almost completely separate from the other two books, was that the character arcs were either unfinished or completely rushed and not fully fleshed out like they should have been.
First, Roan was like completely forgotten about. He was such a big character in the second book and his romance with Zelie actually had me rooting for them just for him to be nonexistent in this book. It was really disappointing. And then Amari had a huge villain arc in the second book so I was expecting the redemption arc for this one and it was... there... kind of. We got her realizing her mistakes and working to change but Zelie and Tzain's forgiveness didn't seem earned or won over at all. It was just given just because. This was also affected by the rushing of the whole book in my opinion.
Overall, I think this series was very much not thought out beforehand because I did notice some of these issues when going from the first book to the second, but the arcs of the second book made me forgive its flaws with its connections, but this one didn't give me any of that and just left me wishing the second book had been the ending instead.