ale's reviews
319 reviews

meh

why a made-up sport and deeply traumatized players have such a deep hold on me i'll never know

Resolvi ler o livro quando li, em outro lugar, "Passeio noturno (parte I)". A história me pegou de surpresa. Depois, lendo os outros contos do autor, já não fui pega de surpresa, já que esperava sempre o pior, mas mesmo assim tive um prazer imenso em descobrir onde cada história estava indo.
Minhas preferidas:
Feliz ano novo; Corações solitários; Passeio noturno (parte I e II); Nau Catrineta; 74 degraus; Intestino grosso. 

This book is not the perfectly crafted masterpiece many people have told me it is, but it is a really good book, if you can forgive its plotholes.
Here are some thoughts:

- not enough dragons (I was promised a book about dragons but we got very little of them compared to what I expected. Their descriptions were also kinda lacking)

- Kit’s death was pointless. Kit as a character was pointless (we didn't care for him, had barely seen anything of him, and thus it didn't mean anything when he died. while on that, I think we should've had more deaths, deaths that mattered, in the book. There was a war, but all our main characters and their loved ones survived)

- some things were a little too convinient for the plot, and things, many times, felt way too easy. Everyone trusts everyone too quickly and is always willing to help. Nations that were enemies for centuries suddenly united, and all it took were some words.

- Loth and Niclays’ povs were useless in my opinion, we could’ve done without them. They felt like they dragged the story to me, and I often felt bored reading them. We could've aquired the little information they provided us by other means, and it would've made the story more interesting and like it took more to achieve goals. Instead, Tané coul've had a more active role in the narrative. Her and Ead felt like the only necessary povs to me.

BUT, despite all of that, I'm still giving this book 5 stars, as it brought me great joy while I was reading. Once I started reading it, it was addictive. I loved both Ead, Tané and Sabran deeply, and they felt like completed characters to me, different from others. I'm eager to read the other book the author has published in this universe. 

é um livro que diz muito em poucas páginas 

The only saving point for this book is that it's a very easy read.
Otherwise, it's just so so badly written. If I hadn't already watched the series in which this book is based, I wouldn'thave understood half the things that were being said.
The author had such an easy job to do: transform a screenplay into a novel. The plot was there, the characters were there, they just needed to translate it into a different format. But what they did was just badly describe what was happening on the screen, except they didn't even do a good job at that.
Anyway, if you consider reading this book: don't. Watch the series instead. 

i was just kinda bored
i think the main appeal of this book is nostalgia, and seeing as i was born way after the 80's and am not usamerican, it's just boring for me