However, I did like seeing basically every magical entity ever imagined coexisting relatively peacefully in one world, and I appreciated the undercurrent of bigotry and classism Maas revealed as the book progressed. I also enjoyed the inclusion of Hunt as a second perspective character, and am interested to see where the story takes the two of them.īut why did Maas name this world Midgard? Is there is link to Norse mythology that hasn’t been revealed yet? If not, then the Midgard name and the frequent use of Hel as an in-world curse feels incredibly lazy.
While I can see why some readers weren’t her biggest fan, I think rooting for Bryce felt like a very natural progression for those who grew to love Nesta. She reminded me some of Nesta, but with self-denial replacing self-destruction. But those serve to make her stronger in my mind, more interesting and sympathetic and multifaceted than she could’ve been without them. Dumb decisions that characters don’t seem to really even learn from drive me nuts.īryce, our main protagonist, is nowhere near perfect.
But I just wanted to shake sense into multiple characters multiple times. Like, people just don’t learn from their own actions. Also, so many incredibly stupid decisions are made. I’m glad I did because, though this book had some issues, the back half made it very much worth reading. While the world building was excessive and clunky, the addition of an intriguing murder mystery kept me interested enough to keep reading. In comparison to those, Crescent City is pretty wildly different while still delivering the plucky, surly, fallible heroine archetype and sultry, multifaceted, misunderstood love interest they’ve come to expect from her work. The only books I’ve read from Maas are those in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, and even those were very recent reads for me.
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