Sis ve Öfke Sarayı - Outside of a Dog

Paperback, 552 pages

Turkish language

Published Oct. 27, 2017 by DEX.

ISBN:: 9786050940626
OCLC Number:: 1028551490

(1 review)

Sarah J. Maas’ın “Taht Oyunları”nın yazarı George R. R. Martin’le karşılaştırmasına yol açan “Güller ve Dikenler Sarayı” dizisinin ikinci kitabı Sis ve Öfke Sarayı da yine temposu ve heyecanı hiç düşmeyen bir macera vaat ediyor. Bana bakan yüzü tanıyordum. Yüzünden akan sahteliği, umutsuzluğu, çürümüşlüğü tanıyordum.

Hançeri kaldırırken elim titremedi. Kemikli omzunu sıkıca tutup karşımdaki iğrenç yüze baktım – kendi yüzüme. Ve üvez hançeri tam kalbime sapladım.

Feyre, Amarantha’dan kurtulup Bahar Sarayı’na dönebildi ama bunun bedeli yüksek oldu. Her ne kadar artık Ulu Peri güçlerine sahip olsa da hâlâ bir insanın kalbini taşıyor ve Tamlin’in halkını kurtarmak için yapmak zorunda kaldıklarını unutamıyor.

Gece Sarayı’nın Yüce Lordu Rhysand’la yaptığı anlaşmayı da unutmadı. Tüm bunların ortasında Feyre, iktidar çatışmaları ve tutku oyunlarının baş döndürücü hızında yapması gerekeni yapıyor.

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3 stars

[NO SPOILERS] // 3.5 // oh... I kinda get it now
(read on audiobook)

This was SO much more enjoyable than ACOTAR. I really was starting to wonder why this series is so popular after finishing the first book which was mostly boring and underwhelming. This book was a HUGE improvement. We had:
- a much more well-developed and enjoyable romance
- a much more proactive Feyre
- the book kept the pace up (unlike ACOTAR which crawled along)
- the characters had downtime but it never dragged because meaningful things where still ocurring (e.g. character development)
- characters that were better developed and more interesting
- I really enjoyed the character dynamics, like it's one of this book's greatest strengths

But it's not all good I'm afraid...
3.5 is a respectable score (especially considering how low I rated ACOTAR) but I couldn't justify rating higher due to some non-ignorable …

[NO SPOILERS] // 3.5 // oh... I kinda get it now
(read on audiobook)

This was SO much more enjoyable than ACOTAR. I really was starting to wonder why this series is so popular after finishing the first book which was mostly boring and underwhelming. This book was a HUGE improvement. We had:
- a much more well-developed and enjoyable romance
- a much more proactive Feyre
- the book kept the pace up (unlike ACOTAR which crawled along)
- the characters had downtime but it never dragged because meaningful things where still ocurring (e.g. character development)
- characters that were better developed and more interesting
- I really enjoyed the character dynamics, like it's one of this book's greatest strengths

But it's not all good I'm afraid...
3.5 is a respectable score (especially considering how low I rated ACOTAR) but I couldn't justify rating higher due to some non-ignorable pitfalls:
- sjm's wrting style is still quite repetitive and it still bothers me
- some of the sex-scenes were a bit too gratuitous. I know this is a romance, but it still has a plot and wasting time with sex scenes that aren't really there to progress plot or character relationships seems a bit pointless when there's SO many, some back to back. (that said some of the sex scenes were used really well!)
- So. Much. Exposition. there was a chunk maybe a third in where you get like 4 character's backstories dumped on you and then you get a whole bunch of lore and other world-building heaped on top of that shortly after. It's too much too soon, I even had to rewind my audiobook to replay that section because I literally could not absorb all that info at once.
- Which brings me to: too much telling not enough showing. I don't need to know everything at once, drip feed it I beg you
- If my above points didn't make it clear: this book coulda done with some pruning down to maybe 500-ish pages and not suffered too much. There's even some side-questy stuff that could be trimmed or completely removed tbh.

And lastly... Not a spoiler I promise, but the end happens VERY fast. I know it's leading into the next book, but it's all a bit rushed with six thousand things being revealed at once and zero time to stew in them.

I think I will give at least the last in the original trilogy a shot based on this moderate success. Don't count me as an sjm stan yet, but like I kinda get it.