{"id":718,"date":"2020-01-15T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/?p=718"},"modified":"2020-01-15T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:29:06","slug":"a-torch-against-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"A Torch Against the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Sabaa Tahir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second book in what\u2019s called the Ember quartet. And in this novel, we continue following Laia and Elias as they try escape Serra and the Martials that are after them. In this book we also follow Helene, who is Elias\u2019s best friend and a Mask as she\u2019s forced to hunt down her friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this is a solid continuation of the series, however I do find that it\u2019s a bit slow and I found myself skimming a lot to get to the action. That\u2019s probably just a personal thing, but I like books with fast pacing and lots of action. I don\u2019t enjoy lingering on feelings and boring stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also quite a lot of brutality that sometimes just seems to be there for shock value rather than something necessary for the story. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m turned off by the brutal descriptions and all that, but it\u2019s more like they are too shallow and happens too often for them to really mean anything. When a character gets tortured, both physically and mentally, I want to care, I want to be horrified. But when they get out of one kind of torture just to fall into the next the effect diminishes and eventually you just end up reading about kids being brutally murdered or tortured and it doesn\u2019t mean anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was unfortunately also surprised by a love-triangle in this book that I honestly didn\u2019t think would happen. I really didn\u2019t find it believable that Laia would fall for this other guy, but then again, she\u2019s still kind of childish and na\u00efve to the point I think she\u2019s ten years old. Not a fan unfortunately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it\u2019s a solid book and it builds up nicely for the next one. So, I\u2019ll give it 3,5\/5 stars and happily continue the series.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Sabaa Tahir This is the second book in what\u2019s called the Ember quartet. And in this novel, we continue following Laia and Elias as they try escape Serra and the Martials that are after them. In this book we also follow Helene, who is Elias\u2019s best friend and a Mask as she\u2019s forced to hunt down her friend. I think this is a solid continuation of the series, however I do find that it\u2019s a bit slow and I found myself skimming a lot to get to the action. That\u2019s probably just a personal thing, but I like books with fast pacing and lots of action. I don\u2019t enjoy lingering on feelings and boring stuff.\u00a0 There are also quite a lot of brutality that sometimes just seems to be there for shock value rather than something necessary for the story. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m turned off by the brutal descriptions and all that, but it\u2019s more like they are too shallow and happens too often for them to really mean anything. When a character gets tortured, both physically and mentally, I want to care, I want to be horrified. But when they get out of one kind of torture…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"Yes","cwp_rev_product_name":"A Torch Against the Night","_wppr_review_template":"default","cwp_rev_product_image":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/atorchagainstthenight.jpg","cwp_image_link":"image","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_pros":["Solid sequel","Interesting world","Different POVs"],"wppr_cons":["Childish main character","Unnecessary brutality","Unbelievable love-triangle"],"wppr_rating":"65.00","wppr_options":{"1":{"name":"Overall","value":"65"},"2":{"name":"Plot","value":"65"},"3":{"name":"Writing","value":"70"},"4":{"name":"Characters","value":"60"},"5":{"name":"Ending","value":"65"}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}