The Savior's Champion
2018 • 562 pages

Ratings8

Average rating3.3

15

I bought the book because it was on sale, I like Jenna's YouTube channel, and so I was curious to see the work in itself.
I have a rating system for fiction books so here it goes.
1. Did I put the book down?
Not really. I am almost blind, so I read with text to speech software that sounds a bit annoying. So if a book is well written, and the pacing is good, and the story is interesting, it will sound good even with a robot reading it. Sidenote, I had no cash for the audiobook so...I only paused my reading because I had to sleep. I was maybe going to DNF, but I felt like picking it up again just to see. So in all fairness, I read it in 2 sittings, it gets the star. Good sentence flow.

2. What about the characters?
Here I have an issue. The main characters were unrealistically perfect. Yes, Tobias had to kill, but we are all used to killings in fiction aren't we? It was a gladiator-like contest. The killings did not make me think he was flawed in the slightest. What flaws did he have? There was not much realism here, and I cannot give that star.

3. What about structure?
I suppose I can give half a start here. It was well paced, yes it was, but it was predictable. No I don't remember other reviews. It was easy to figure it all out, too easy, and that is a huge no no for me. I love it when I cannot predict things. I'm not talking just about the big reveal, everything was easy. Half a star for good structure.

4. How was the writing?
It was good. Some strange word choices here and there but everyone is allowed to have their own style. I can give it a star. I appreciate the effort she put into this aspect of the novel.

5. Overall subjective stuff?
I am not the target audience. This is for straight women, I'm ace. I can give it half a star because it had some good representation, but...this had too much love stuff, the love was very focused on the physical aspect of romance, and I don't give a....

All in all, this is very commercial, and I can see the appeal to younger, straight girls. There were a lot of shirtless dudes running around and killing each other. Great. It's fine, not for me.

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