Realm Breaker

From the author of the multimillion copy bestselling Red Queen series

Paperback

ISBN:
9781409193951

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2 stars (1 review)

10 editions

Still arguing with myself over whether to read book 2

2 stars

I loved Red Queen and had high hopes for Victoria Aveyard's new books, but sadly, Realm Breaker didn't get there. At all. It's a good story but it's too easy to put down and too difficult to keep reading; there's nothing really keeping me engaged. I think its problem might be including too many narrators right from the start - right when I think I might start caring for one of the characters, the perspective changes. It makes them all feel like they're just plot points, and one of them could die without making the reader feel anything about it, just as long as the plot can go on. And that's quite sad, because they're good characters. I think it would've done the book good to keep the prologue and last chapter told by the same characters as now, but to restrict the rest of the book to 1-2 narrators …