The False King by Victor Acnam IIMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I liked the story in general, it was easy to follow its events, it was well written if I've to compare it to some YA fantasy books that I've read and where the writing style was a catastrophe but here the author has a really great style that I hope will be developed and better used in future works.
The fantasy world is quite interesting as much as the characters. I liked Rig, Marcus, Hal, Mariane and Kenneth but the only character that I could not stomach was the MC, Leon. I'm totally team Kenneth, I would have loved him as the main hero of this story and to follow his adventures with The Lost Blades, that would have been more interesting for me. Here, I couldn't care less about Leon and I don't want to follow him while he develop his heroic personality or his skills or his powers as a child of ashes. I wanted for Rig or Marcus to beat his a** at some point of the story when he made some dumb and childish actions.
For Henry/John as a villain, let's say that he was more like a reality bad politician/tyrant than a villain of a fantasy story. I wanted to know what happened to his family and how come Leon's father did what he did, I mean that we needed some background there.
View all my reviews
Comments
Post a Comment