Lenaasty's Reviews > The Sky on Fire

DNF 5%

2 stars just to not bring the overall rating too low but it was so messy I gave up faster than I've ever given up before. I usually push myself to reach at least 15% of a book before DNFing it but from page 1 to page something it wasn't engaging in any way. you get thrown right in the middle of something with a bunch of characters and history and world building that you have to learn on the spot to understand what is going on. there was no subtle interdiction to characters or to the main plot or even to how the world works in itself, just hey there's a dragon on the roof and for some reason its rider is more important than the mayor but also the dragon speaks? through his rider? and IT wants a girl from 15 years ago dead who's already supposed to be dead but wait that's her in the next pov but she's in the underworld? and she can take control of animals (as in Bran from GOT her body just collapses and she transfers into the animal) but not any animal no no a titan? titan drake? who is fighting giant wyrms? and everyone has ridiculous names bc why not: Anahrod, Overbite (that's the animal she controls' name but it's so annoying to read and it's mentioned everywhere), Gwydinion, Kaibren, Naeron (ngl I dig this one), Ris, Belsaor, Amnead, Tiendremos (sounds like the Spanish verb) etc etc just random fantasy sounding names that grated on my already frail nerves.

I guess it was off to a really bad start and I couldn't climb up from it, sorry it wasn't for me I'd rather give up now that force myself to read all of it and write an even more bitter review bc I used too much hater energy hate-reading it


[arc review, honest opinion]