Eryca Liskovec
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I truly enjoyed this book and will be continuing this series! Trina was a likeable FMC who was not a badass by nature, but always rose to the challenge anyway. I did feel like she took a little too long to accept some of the things happening in the book, but overall, she was real and someone easy to root for. The book had a couple of back and forth chapters between Newton in his time and present day, which were well done and compelling. The plot was interesting and developed a story that was both fantastical and just believable enough.
I don't know if I read it weird, but I did feel like there were a couple of revelations that happened twice. Like I had to go back and read again because I thought we had already discovered this, and yet it was being presented as a new theory. I'd be curious if anyone else finds this - I haven't seen other reviews mention it?
I truly enjoyed this book and will be continuing this series! Trina was a likeable FMC who was not a badass by nature, but always rose to the challenge anyway. I did feel like she took a little too long to accept some of the things happening in the book, but overall, she was real and someone easy to root for. The book had a couple of back and forth chapters between Newton in his time and present day, which were well done and compelling. The plot was interesting and developed a story that was both fantastical and just believable enough.
I don't know if I read it weird, but I did feel like there were a couple of revelations that happened twice. Like I had to go back and read again because I thought we had already discovered this, and yet it was being presented as a new theory. I'd be curious if anyone else finds this - I haven't seen other reviews mention it?
Honestly, I was engrossed in this book in some parts, and totally skimming through other parts just ready to be done.
The magic system has a lot of potential, and I loved the animal spirits (someone in their review said it was kind of like real-life pokemon, and I like that description). I liked the FMC for the most part. The MMC was...something. I didn't hate him, but he is toxic.
The ending isn't really a cliffhanger, just abrupt. I am honestly mostly bothered that the beginning premise of this book was that the Taking Trees were consuming the land of her people (and the people themselves if they were on said land), and the only way to stop this was to go into the forest on the Great Hunt. and that was the whole point of even having Champions and finding the spirits and all of that...and she accomplishes her goal, and that's never even mentioned again? She was literally only there to save her sister, not her entire family, community, humans, the whole world anymore? Did she even save the humans/world? Admittedly, I was skimming at the end, so if I missed it, my bad - please correct me if I'm wrong!
Honestly, I was engrossed in this book in some parts, and totally skimming through other parts just ready to be done.
The magic system has a lot of potential, and I loved the animal spirits (someone in their review said it was kind of like real-life pokemon, and I like that description). I liked the FMC for the most part. The MMC was...something. I didn't hate him, but he is toxic.
The ending isn't really a cliffhanger, just abrupt. I am honestly mostly bothered that the beginning premise of this book was that the Taking Trees were consuming the land of her people (and the people themselves if they were on said land), and the only way to stop this was to go into the forest on the Great Hunt. and that was the whole point of even having Champions and finding the spirits and all of that...and she accomplishes her goal, and that's never even mentioned again? She was literally only there to save her sister, not her entire family, community, humans, the whole world anymore? Did she even save the humans/world? Admittedly, I was skimming at the end, so if I missed it, my bad - please correct me if I'm wrong!