Oliver Howard

🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Going into this series, I had preconceived notions that it was not real literature or good writing. While it's not beautifully written, it has that X factor that just makes it so damn readable. This is a book I sat and stared at a wall for hours while listening to the audiobook. I had so much fun with it it's insane. It's definitely a derivative work, taking a lot of inspiration from other successful franchises like The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, and A Song of Ice and Fire, but Pierce Brown just makes it work and stand on its own. I can't remember the last time I've been so eager to read the next book in a series -- it feels like a TV show I'm binging. It's not literary classic, but bloody damn it's entertaining.

Very entertaining and had some very interesting concepts and twists that make it stand out from stories with similar plot lines.

A very classic first installment in a fantasy series. Not much happens regarding the plot, but Eddings spends time with his characters, developing them into multi-dimensional people.

I tried a few times and kept bouncing off of this book. Maybe if I play the game and love it I might come back to the series, but until then it's a DNF.

This is what happens when "Catcher in the Rye" type characters are done correctly. The main character is so unlikable and brutally honest, you can't help but keep reading.