Nate
I think I understand the wide acclaim and high ratings for this book specifically as well as for the series, and it was a good read. Well written and the plot pulled me through the book quickly. I enjoyed the concepts of class and the characters were fairly well thought out. I feel like the book started out better than it ended. With all these positives, and its popular appeal, I hate to be negative for the sake of negativity. I can’t point to something that I felt was bad or done poorly in the book, and I will give it a high ranking, but for me the events in the beginning that became the main character’s motivation cast a shadow on everything afterwards. The earlier scenes were so poignant that it made it hard to feel as much for later events. Don’t get me wrong, I really liked the book, but I wish that somehow it could have carried the emotional weight from the earlier chapters all the way to the end. It was a bright fire that waned to a bed of smoldering embers. It felt like it should have done the opposite.
I think I understand the wide acclaim and high ratings for this book specifically as well as for the series, and it was a good read. Well written and the plot pulled me through the book quickly. I enjoyed the concepts of class and the characters were fairly well thought out. I feel like the book started out better than it ended. With all these positives, and its popular appeal, I hate to be negative for the sake of negativity. I can’t point to something that I felt was bad or done poorly in the book, and I will give it a high ranking, but for me the events in the beginning that became the main character’s motivation cast a shadow on everything afterwards. The earlier scenes were so poignant that it made it hard to feel as much for later events. Don’t get me wrong, I really liked the book, but I wish that somehow it could have carried the emotional weight from the earlier chapters all the way to the end. It was a bright fire that waned to a bed of smoldering embers. It felt like it should have done the opposite.