Would you be willing to try another one of Fiona Hardingham and Steve West ’s performances?ĭear lord, not likely. It felt like the author was cutting and pasting elements from genres I love, but there were too many of them, and they never formed a cohesive theme or a plot that felt genuine. With all these great ingredients, I kept thinking "I should really be loving this!" But it just never added up for me. This book felt like a song mashup remix of every classic fantasy series (game of thrones, wheel of time, etc) with every chosen- one-coming-of-age-in-the-face-of-great-trials YA book (hunger games, ender's game, etc) That's the main problem I had with this story, though. What other book might you compare An Ember in the Ashes to and why? There's a catastrophe or a giant twist in every chapter. then the bar is set too high in the beginning for the stakes to be raised any further. When there is too much action, adventure, love triangles, supernatural villains, big empire evil, torture, espionage, trials, rape, and so on. When a story is 15 hours long and literally JAM-PACKED with plot, that's not a good sign. I tuned out for twenty, thirty minutes at a time and every time I checked back in, I thought "yeah, doesn't seem like I missed anything important". But so is watching season 5 of scandal, even though NOTHING surprising, informative or important is happening there. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?Įh. Too many good ingredients = Over-seasoned story
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