Review: too many POV's and lack of world development
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
I have been keeping with reading this series because I love the idea behind it and the personalities with the characters. In the prior 2 books the POV was kept to a few of the main characters for that story. However, as this series has progressed, so has the number of POV's and main characters. It's to the point that I can't remember some of them because of how many there are. I appreciate the complexity and work to not make it as typical as some, but there seems to be too many now. It makes it dull when I have to stop reading to do research because we were meeting new characters, and out of nowhere an old one pops in. There is also this "mate" idea which is called a te'sorthene, and originally it was supposed to be kind of a rare find. And yet, everyone is suddenly finding theirs. Also, all the female leads, which was 1 and is around 5, are suddenly gaining powers. This is supposed to not be able to occur at all, and yet, it's happened to not one but 4 so far. Whereas I like this story, it's getting to be far reaching and implausible. I give on most things, but when you make the characters too powerful, it takes away from the conflict because then you have to make their opponent more powerful and then this epic battle is going to have to occur or it will fall short of their supposed abilities, leaving readers feeling "meh".I think that there needs to be more world building and less characters becoming more powerful. I like the dynamics and can appreciate a large family, but enough power is enough. I mean, they were supposed to be learning and developing what they had, but that's been pushed aside due to knew abilities. In this third book, there was very little world creation. They were in a castle, there were trees, there was a hill, and there was a long corridor.  I liked the first and second books a lot, but this one was just difficult to love with them. I was super excited to read about Ramsey and Lila, but the extra stuff was too much and took away from their story. I hope in the next one, the focus keeps to Nate and Delia. The set up gives promise to great emotional scenes with big plot line development options. I hope the writer uses it.