Shayne Silvers
Autore di Obsidian Son
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Shayne Silvers
Serie
Opere di Shayne Silvers
Fairy Tale 16 copie
Devil's Blood 9 copie
Trinity 6 copie
Fire Kissed 4 copie
The Phantom Queen Diaries: Books 1-3 — Autore — 2 copie
The Phantom Queen Diaries: Books 4-6 — Autore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 53
- Utenti
- 1,110
- Popolarità
- #23,141
- Voto
- 4.4
- Recensioni
- 80
- ISBN
- 53
Everyone adores the mc. All relevant females are gorgeous and throw themselves at him. The good as well as evil.
He is a god-like ultra-powerful magician, looks stunning, oh, and he (mild predictable spoiler)
It's full of all the other clicheés that come to mind after that as well.
Sometimes I can eat up a story about an mc like that. A pure power trip. But this book isn't just that. It's also the definition of shallow.
It seems like everything is just handed to him. He does nothing but basks in his own awesomeness. He doesn't actually do anything impressive beyond his innate abilities and inheritance.
No razor-sharp mind, no creative application of an ability, no interesting flaw, no intriguing dynamics with other characters, no emotional involvement of the reader, nothing that is appealing to me. Even the entire plot progression basically falls into his lap every step of the way. Which makes all the worshipping of him by literally everyone else that much more baffling to me.
He is the definition of a Gary Stu I guess.
The plot is so contrived I've never asked myself "why" and "why not" so many times in so short a time.
Characters have whole well-articulated conversations in the midst of life or death fights. It's almost like they can just call a timeout, finish their conversation, and then continue fighting.
Usually, in a well-written book, tense and dicey situations require the mc to make use of all her/his abilities or to even surpass him/herself to overcome the danger for it to be truly satisfying.
But even in a total power trip story like this, tension is necessary and to create it the reader needs to have an intentionally crafted expectation of what the mc is capable of. Even if the reader knows based on previous experiences that the mc will have another ace up his sleeve, not knowing about it is just as important as real danger in a conventional story.
That is probably the most important thing this book gets wrong. Well, I guess it has high ratings and a decent number of them... so, it's taste, I guess...
There are many more flaws I can't be bothered to address.
I do not recommend this even tho I would really enjoy a well-done power fantasy at the moment.… (altro)