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Infernal Devices (Mortal Engines Quartet, #3)
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bookshelves: ab, read-in-2019, reviewed, steampunk, science-fiction, young-adult, 2-star
Jan 24, 2019
bookshelves: ab, read-in-2019, reviewed, steampunk, science-fiction, young-adult, 2-star
I got angry while reading this book.
I loved the first book, then found the second mediocre. But this one just plainly got on my nerves, and I'm honestly debating whether or not to continue the series.
First of all, this book starts off with a huge time skip of 16 years. A bit odd, but okay. We meet Tom and Hester's daughter Wren, who I didn't like at first but who grew on me over the course of this book.
She wasn't the problem I had with this book, neither was the plot. My issue with this book were Tom and Hester themselves, and mostly Hester. The two characters I absolutely loved from the first book. I'll be going into some spoiler territory here.
It just feels like they didn't change in all that time, they didn't grow as people or grow more mature. If anything, they regressed into one dimensional versions of themselves. Hester especially seemed to have turned into the worst possible version of herself. I almost didn't recognize her, and I definitely didn't like her. Which is horrible because she was one of my favorites in the first book. (view spoiler)
Also, can we stop with the talk about how ugly Hester is, for once? Please? I'm so tired of it! It's mentioned in every book, it's the root cause of her insecurities and presumably the underlying reason for her bad behavior, and it's just... not great.
I'm really debating just reading a summary of the fourth book and moving on, but I'm not sure.
I loved the first book, then found the second mediocre. But this one just plainly got on my nerves, and I'm honestly debating whether or not to continue the series.
First of all, this book starts off with a huge time skip of 16 years. A bit odd, but okay. We meet Tom and Hester's daughter Wren, who I didn't like at first but who grew on me over the course of this book.
She wasn't the problem I had with this book, neither was the plot. My issue with this book were Tom and Hester themselves, and mostly Hester. The two characters I absolutely loved from the first book. I'll be going into some spoiler territory here.
It just feels like they didn't change in all that time, they didn't grow as people or grow more mature. If anything, they regressed into one dimensional versions of themselves. Hester especially seemed to have turned into the worst possible version of herself. I almost didn't recognize her, and I definitely didn't like her. Which is horrible because she was one of my favorites in the first book. (view spoiler)
Also, can we stop with the talk about how ugly Hester is, for once? Please? I'm so tired of it! It's mentioned in every book, it's the root cause of her insecurities and presumably the underlying reason for her bad behavior, and it's just... not great.
I'm really debating just reading a summary of the fourth book and moving on, but I'm not sure.
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Reading Progress
September 14, 2018
– Shelved
September 14, 2018
– Shelved as:
next-in-a-series-released
January 17, 2019
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Started Reading
January 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
ab
January 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
read-in-2019
January 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
reviewed
January 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
January 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
steampunk
January 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
young-adult
January 24, 2019
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Finished Reading
February 20, 2019
– Shelved as:
2-star
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Dec 18, 2020 02:21AM
To be honest I feel like Hester and Tom are not actually in love with each other. They are more like two people that think they know what love is like but they really don't. Like everyone's first relationship. I don't think Tom actually loves her, I'm not talking about the remarks he has for the beauty of other women like a lot of other people are pointing out (spoiler just because I love you I don't think that you are the most beautiful person in the world). What I am referring to is the lack of proof of his love to her throughout the whole book. Not a kind gesture, not a nice word... It just feels like he think he is in love but Wren and pity are kinda the only things that keeps them togheter. An Hester... I mean Hester is obsessed with him. Being jealous of her own daughter, not wanting her to be born... It just shows an obsessive behavior. She doesn't love Tom she holds on to him because he is the only one that showed any kind of history in her. And she is always drowning in this constant state of self pity blaming her horrible action to being valentine's daughter... This book was hard to read...
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