Square Fish All the Stars and Teeth

I have mixed feelings about this book. I started it 3 times before I finally read it all and I think the reason for struggling so much are the character’s depth and personalities. The story itself is a great idea and well thought out. The male characters are good, likeable but are missing an element that would make you really care about them, but the main issue is Amora, the main character. In style and genre this book would be directly comparable to Sarah J Maas Throne of Glass series but if you look at the Throne female characters, they are so fantastic. There are 4 main female characters in Sarah’s book and they are all flawed but you love and care about each of them deeply. In this book Amora is in my opinion quite unlikeable. Only in the very last couple of chapters did she redeem herself. There are also some major story flaws, Bastion says he will kill (someone) when he gets the chance, and yet he has the perfect chance, a knife to the throat even and yet he doesn’t kill him?! Why? It’s silly... again if this was Aelin in Throne she would have slit that throat without a second thought :] It’s such a shame because the story is there, I just didn’t care a jot about the main character. One character I did care about was the mermaid, but she simply wasn’t given enough story time, another shame. Also the Soul magic doesn’t work for me, at the beginning it shows how she can easily take lives with it, she tells how she has taken ‘hundreds of lives’ and yet when in difficult spots with villains she only manages to do some slight damage, enough to make them scream so she can run away. It didn’t make sense.

Loved it

Je ne peux que vous conseiller cette lecture : c’est un Fantasy YA avec pirate, magie, sorcière et sirène.On a vraiment un bon cocktail pour passer un super moment.L’univers est super bien travaillé, avec différentes îles, représentant différentes magies. Heureusement qu’on a une légende en début de livre car je m’y suis un peu perdue, face à toutes ses magies différentes.Je me suis bien accrochée à tous les personnages. Et je dois dire que l’intrigue a pris une tournure auquel je m’attendais pas forcément. Et ça fais du bien de tomber sur une lecture qui me surprend.Peut être un petit bémol sur la fin qui ne finis pas en cliffhanger, bon je m’y suis peut être un peu trop habituée aussi.Mais j’ai bien l’intention de lire la suite cet été .

I generally enjoyed this one but I didn’t care enough about the characters to really fall in love with this one. Keen to see where it ends up in the next book

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