Before reading my thoughts on ‘The Memory of Babel’, here are my reviews on the first two books of the series : ‘A Winter’s Promise‘ and ‘The Missing of Clairdelune‘. Trust me you are gonna wanna read them if you want to understand any of my further ramblings(rants if you will).
This series has waaaaaay too many new characters. Let me explain in book 1 there were a few characters and in book 2 some characters were added and that was FINE, BUT in book 3 there is this ENTIRELY different ark with TOTALLY new characters!!!! (I am somebody who does NOT remember names easily and if you give me new names I will definitely forget old characters to make room for the new ones; only partially joking about the forgetting part). At this point I don’t even know in which direction the plot is going (at one point I turned back to see if I was even reading a book of the same series).
I feel like the author started this series with a great idea but now is just winging it as it comes to her. I started this book, dnf-ed it, finished 3 other books and then came back to this book (Remember in boss baby when the baby falls asleep mid-convo, yup, that’s me while reading this book).
At this point Ophelia just seems stupid(there is NO sugar-coating this)and clumsy(the irritating kind and not the cute kind). I don’t care about any of it anymore. Ophelia finds Thorn (yeah the LUCKY dude managed to somehow escape and is currently MIA, not that we saw much of him before), she doesn’t find Thorn, she’s stupid enough to get blackmailed or she’s not. I DON’T CARE (YIKES I sound like a properly traumatized kid).
Also special mention to a new character Mediana. I DO NOT LIKE MEDIANA. AT ALL. LIKE WILL-DEFINITELY-NOT-HESITATE-TO-PUSH-HER-OF- A-MOUNTAIN LEVEL OF DISLIKE.
There is also some chapters from the pov of Victoria (Berenilde’s child). I was too bored with the book to even bother forming an opinion on her. I will also not be judging her harshly because she’s a two year old.
I added a photo of a map below because I felt like it and also because it was the ONLY interesting thing in the book.
If there is any doubt left regarding me continuing this series, BANISH IT. I REFUSE to put myself through another book-ful of this boring mess. Definitely will not be recommending it to anyone(atleast not to anyone I like *witch’s cackle*).
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