I cannot stop comparing this series to The Queen's Thief, which is really not fair to these books since the Queen's Thief series is better than most everything out there. Like The False Prince The Runaway King is compulsively readable. But I wasn't that into the story. Again it takes a loooong tim...
The Ascendance Trilogy wasn't everything I hoped it would be. I was hoping for an exciting Middle Grade story with well-written characters and a strong plot. What I got was a moderately fun Middle Grade story with boring, flat characters and a predictable, forced plot. The first book was by far...
This is probably one of my favorite books. When I first bought checked it out I didn't know just how much I'd love it. Here I am two years later with my own copy of the book as well as his brothers ( The Runaway King and The Shadow Throne)The Characters?Where do I even begin? Sage is exactly what yo...
I haven't flown through a series like this in a while. I finished The Runaway King late last night and stayed up until the 4am reading The Shadow Throne. This has been one epic adventure that I will never forget. If I can find a book to read next that is even half as good as these books have been...
This book was excellent in terms of drawing the reader in, and providing just the right amount of excitement to keep the reader going. Jaron/Sage is pretty awesome for a urchin/pirate/King. His character is pretty near perfect when it comes to how he justifies his actions. I loved reading about him,...
Actual rating: 3.5 starsI usually don't rate books with half stars. But I was very on the fence with the Runaway King.I really enjoyed most of the book. Only a couple things annoyed me. Firstly, it seems like everyone loves Jaron. He is so special and he defeats all the bad guys easily. Even the vil...
While I enjoyed all of Jaron's scheming once again, I preferred his scheming in the first book. He felt far more like a master manipulator in the first book, whereas here, a lot of his plans seemed to come down to dumb luck. That's mostly due to how many more variables that were outside of his contr...
The first book in this series, The False Prince, was hardly the best example of a grand technical achievement. It was neither a grand masterpiece of metalanguage, flowery prose or ideological philosophy. Yet, what it was, it was good at being: a work of children's literature that was tightly plotted...
This was not nearly as good as [b:The False Prince|12432220|The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy, #1)|Jennifer A. Nielsen|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1333227435s/12432220.jpg|16221764]. I got the feeling with The False Prince that Sage/Joran had a master plan the entire time. This...
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