Realm Breaker

The premise of this books sounded so good. Victoria Aveyard sold this to me from her Instagram stories and highly inspired by LOTR? COUNT ME IN!

HOWEVER

It failed.

The characters were bland, too similar and boring.

Coraynne was a daughter of a pirate and yet she was boring, wanted adventure but also Is destined to save the world? But shes useless apart from being smart

Dom — useless elder (who is meant to be super impossible to kill) was a pointless POV and a worse fighter.

The assassin was better but a bad version of celena from Throne of Glass.

A squire who's POV was slightly better but also pointless. (Also he's in the prologue that is pointless to have as we get all information in the first chapter repeated basically)

Like what's with the multiple POV?! DO WE NEED THEM? NO

The only interesting character was the antagonist.

It's a quest fantasy. Fine. But the characters fell so flat. And the plot was too plain to stand for such a long book.

Oh and DID I MENTION theres a chosen one trope?

Yup. The bland and boring chosen one trope.

where are the morally gray characters that will save their world for their own gain and not because of decency?!


The plot was overlong for a book. It felt like backstory instead of a plot, as if the book should have started where it ended.

Overall predictable.

And the POV shifts within another characters POV was jarring

The world was large but it lacked foundation. I found some of it confusing.

I wished it's DNFed this.

It's a shame as I want to like Victoria Aveyard's writing but, while her ideas are solid her execution fails