Warsworn, Elizabeth Vaughan
well, the book was staring me full in the face, so i figured why not. i liked the first book, so i must like this one, right? turns out, i may have set my expectations a bit too high, and damned the book before i even started. here's how it goes:
the recapping i found to be not very useful, because the important bits weren't fully explained. kier came off as colder than i remembered him being in the first book, which struck me as strangely out of character, or was i remembering him wrong? i honestly can't tell. sometimes he was a downright bastard. marcus struck her down and he didn't even instinctively move to help her? huh, well so much for his protective nature then. lara, too, was a whiny bitch most of the time; how did anyone manage to stand her for any period of time? she was willing to do anything to get her way. obviously, she never thought the people around her might actually know what they're doing. but of course, she would do it better, and she has to argue with anyone for the sake of arguing.
did she actually outright lie? i didn't think so, but they stressed big time on her lying. well.. okay? the people around her seem to keep finding her antics "cute," but she pissed the hell out of me, acting like an 8-year-old, pouting here and there when she didn't get what she wanted. she had struck me as more mature than that in the first book. she cries a lot in this book, which in the context makes sense, but again, where was her growth as a character? i didn't see any progression really, other than that she was happier or sadder. maybe there was a lesson learned. other than that.. not really much of a significant change, and i'd say she got off way too easy considering what her actions caused. i keep feeling like the author let her off on it because of favoritism.
anyway. like i said, it could just be my damn expectations screwing it all up for me again. i haven't read what anyone else thought about this book, so i don't know what anyone thought of this. i'm not too eager to read the next one though, since neither kier or lara are among my favorite characters right now. despite what i'm saying, i know this isn't really as bad as i make it out to be. in fact, i'd rate it a 3 out of 5; but really, i was expecting something along the lines of 4.5, and therein lies my problem. maybe once i've forgotten general opinions on this book, i can start on the next.
