I’m gonna start reviewing the books i read. It’s gonna be fun. you’re gonna love it. I’m really into epic fantasy books, everyone knows Game of Thrones, so that kind of stuff. Dragons and magic and kings and queens and evil wizards and warrior princesses… stuff like that. love it. So here goes my first really bad book review:

Books: The Night Angel Trilogy Author: Brent Weeks Genre: Fantasy/Fiction Grade: B-

This series started off kinda slow (Azoth to Kylar transition took foreeever!!!!), then got super intense (assassins everywhere!), and then a little annoying (stop calling each other “honey”, it’s weird!), and then really intense again (the king is alive!! the godking is a monster!! monsters and assassins everywhere!!), and then it became weirdly like Wheel of Time and I wasn’t sure how to feel about it (did she just bond him? are they like the aes sedai? are those basically the aiel? hello trollocs).

Given all that, i still liked it. cuz i basically like everything i read. Unless it’s like super bad. The story itself in the whole trilogy is engaging. I like most of the characters. I want to know what happens next, so i keep reading – when that happens i can easily say i like the book. if i didn’t like it, i wouldn’t care what happens. I’m engaged in the story. the writer has won.

There were definitely parts of the story (like most of the Elene parts) that bugged me. I wish we got more details on stuff that was just mentioned in passing… i.e. Feir walks into the magical forest nobody ever comes out alive from, and then fast forward however long and he’s walking out and can’t remember what happened, but has some instructions in his pocket to make a magical sword and all is well… say what? But it didn’t really bug me too much cuz i kept reading. Durzo was a jerk and i loved that about him. Logan was such a dreamy hero even though he became a cannibal for a little while. Dorian became a total weirdo psycho but i was still routing for him. Vi was a bigtime jerk too, but i was still routing for her as well, hope her and Kylar live happily ever after killing bad people together forever. that last scene was cute.

And as with most fantasy book endings – i may not have understood much of it but it was a satisfying conclusion to the story (i.e. it didn’t make me angry)…  there’s like lots of magic involved and when you involve magic, it doesn’t matter if it makes sense, cuz it’s magic. so duh. anything is magically possible because you just have to have enough magic to make it possible. 9 magic ppl fingers on a sword, nothing happens, add a little pinky of a wizard and boom, all the bad guys are exploded and all is well in the world. I don’t even care that it doesn’t make sense. Most magical things don’t make sense, hence them being magical and fantastical. But I was fine with it. I liked that Elene died cuz i never liked her much in the first place. I like that Kylar’s baby magically transferred wombs. I like that Vi became a hero and found her place in the world. That’s basically all i got. Read it if you want. But only after you read all the Wheel of Time books, and all of Brandon Sanderson’s books. and all of Joe Abercrombie’s books. and obvi GRRM and Rothfus. Then when you’re done with all that, read this.

See…. This is why i never write book reviews – because this happens.

Sorry guys. #iaintsorry.