Großartig, besser als Teil 1, aber kühle Stimme

Was mochten Sie nicht am Vortrag von Jennifer Ikeda?

Ich habe 'A Court of Mist and Fury' letztes Jahr gleich nach Erscheinen gelesen, und wollte das Hörbuch nun hören in Vorbereitung auf den 3. Teil der Serie, der im Mai 2017 rauskommt. Zum Glück kenne ich das Buch und habe mich in die Story und die Figuren verliebt, denn das Hörbuch hätte eher nicht diese Reaktion in mir hervorgerufen.

Ich fürchte, ich mag Jennifer Ikedas Stimme nicht, sie klingt zu kühl insgesamt. Und wenn sie Rhys(and) spricht, ist sie mir wiederum zu animiert und teilweise schrill. Ihn habe ich mir mit sehr tiefer und langsamer Stimme vorgestellt. Und da Rhys meine Lieblingsfigur der ganzen Reihe ist (und auch der Anziehungspunkt, dieses Buch nochmal lesen zu wollen), breche ich das Hörbuch nun nach einer Stunde ab und lese das Buch doch lieber selbst.

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Kehrtwende

Die Protagonistin, die ich im ersten Teil absolut nicht leiden konnte (wie kann man nur so dumm sein? Wieso ist sie so unausstehlich? Was will sie nur von dem Typen? Merkt die überhaupt irgendwas?) hat sich über den zweiten teil der Serie langsam entwickelt und wurde von furchtbares Wesen zu okayisch (auch wenn sie selbst zu der Entwicklung nicht wirklich viel beigetragen hat). Gerade diese Entwicklung und der männliche Hauptcharakter der Serie machen diese Bücher aber zu etwas besonderen, wenn man die Kraft hat bis dahin durchzuhalten.

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Großartig.

Der beste Teil der Serie, großartig gelesen von Jennifer Ikeda. Gut geschrieben mit sympathischen, komplexen Figuren und einer spannenden Geschichte bietet Sarah J. Maas hervorragende Unterhaltung.

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I loved it

I listened to it everyday - on my commute and before I went to sleep. It’s such an amazing story.

Very one dimensional

Ok, this review might be a little unfair, as I wasn’t aware that this was a „new adult“ fantasy type of series probably aimed at (young) women but for me it was really hard to get through large parts of it.

The general premise has potential and I appreciated the fact, that story arcs were not dragged unnecessarily but most of the time, it’s really just about how the protagonist feels (the fact that I couldn’t relate at all probably didn’t help) and her love interests, while other story elements are glossed over.

Love this book

The second book is in my opinion even better than the first. The story was interesting through and through. I had a hard time not to listening to it, when I should be doing my homework.

whow! that was far beyond from what I expected

I listened to the first book and found it great. I read the reviews and expected better. but that it will be so much more... don't know how often I repeated some chapters, just to hold the feeling. this book replaced my 10 year favorite. @Jennifer Ikeda: never heard a narrator like you before. It was an awesome journey! 👌

Holy sh**

This was one hell of a trip. I am lost for words. It got me good. It got me so good. The author knows what she is doing. There was no second book blues what so ever. It was just … amazing.

Loveeee this book! its the best one yet 😍

loved the plottwist omg get yourself ready! character development 10/10 love love love!
cant wait to hear more !

Whirlwind of emotions

(Long review, kinda divided into writing, narrator and story - "kinda" meaning: at least I tried 😅)

Ok, so I haven't written a review in a while and honestly, all the super positive ones as well as the negative ones kept me from speaking my mind.
I won't speak of them as much since I suppose everyone considering this one already read or listened to this one.

The first and second book honestly don't compare to this one. I've always loved the writing style and the world building, though I still don't know a few things I can definitely see everything happening so vividly in my mind! I understand how the storytelling might have seemed slow and that's still happening here sometimes but every time I thought "wait, don't you have other things to worry/think about?!" It's very quickly shown how: yes, there are more pressing matters at hand but at the same time, there are moments you have to let go of those troubles - even if it's just to stay sane and think of something else for a moment. So I enjoyed every moment of non action.
Speaking of action: Most of the real action happens in the third part of the book. At the halfway point, I was a little scared that I'd get a cliffhanger before anything even happened but no - shit goes down and you're still hanging onto a freaking unbelievable cliff at the end!
Story-wise I enjoyed it too, since everything that happened had been sort of hinted at in the previous books. (I kinda read spoilers before so some of it wasn't as surprising as it should have been)
-> I suggest you stay off of the other books and their blurbs and info on the wiki if you don't want to ruin the surprises 😅

The narrator, I've read some great and some aweful rewievs about her. I get it, sometimes the characters aren't super well distinguishable and the "low and dark" sounds of some might not come across that well... But also keep in mind that there are tons of characters with different voices and there's only one woman voicing them. The women are usually easy to tell apart, the men are sometimes a little harder when there's just dialogue. That's not the reason I took off one star though, I did that because I've heard others that had me hanging onto every word, where I'd even gone back to hear them say that line again! Ikeda had me do that in the last 3 to 5 chapters but mostly during the last three. It was like the writing, the story and her reading had me hooked. Like I mentioned, that wasn't often and mostly during this last third of the book.

The story in itself (solely this book) had me raging and pacing around, laugh out loud at some terribly inappropriate moments (in a good, embarrassed way because I felt with the characters) and squeal in anticipation and awe of what would/could or had happened 😁
Also: that ending! I literally bought credits (paused sub) to buy the next one because I can not handle how that ended! I'm kinda dying, kinda crying and kinda wanting to jump and laugh at what might be coming in the next one!

To sum it up, I'd say if you enjoyed the last two books in any way then please do yourself the favour and get this one too!