Reviews

Battle of the Heroes by Kate Forsyth

singerji's review

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

kkaste's review

adventurous hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

phoenix__14's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

sean67's review against another edition

3.0

Final book in the series sees it all come together, in a somewhat satisfying way. Early in the book it mentions that it is three weeks since the story began.
Three weeks is quite a short time to build five bools around, they were not long books, but really, it could have been one or two longer books, with less padding.
Anyway an engaging series with all the fantasy elements you would expect and the ending as well.
I wonder if she will ever revisit the characters?

mrremi's review

3.0

The whole thing was pretty good though I found the conclusion to be disappointing and a little too childish for me, but it is a book too young for me so maybe that's to be expected but all the other books were fine.

stefhyena's review

4.0

Do you remember that feeling you had as a child reading Narnia? That exultant feeling of being in a word far divorced from reality where good overcomes evil and the good guys have a beautiful and trusting harmony with each other. I had that feeling with this book. Even though each of the children turns out to have some kind, mentor adults who would step in to rescue them (in some ways a cop-out by Forsyth), for one reason after another the children do not get to take a step back and let the adults handle it.

This book is pure action: fantastic swords and sorcery style action with cooperative rhythms between the four and their allies (such as Jack who I would have like to have seen even more of). I could pick the lack of realism to bits but I think that would be missing the point of what was a fast-paced and positively cast end to the impossible quest.

Much as I like brevity however I still wonder if the whole quest would have been better as one book. But it was worth a read in either case!

st0rm's review

2.0

Overall, this entire series was kind of a slump, between a horrible choice of words, a fourth book that feels like an actual decent story written by a ghost writer, and an overall easy to follow plot with riddles that are extremely easy to solve and “mythical creatures,” aka literally the most basic “magic beasts,” you could think of: a unicorn, griffin, dragon, and sea serpent. An extremely unoriginal story with a super anticlimactic ending.

kaitlynthebookworm24's review

3.0

3.5 stars. This book was pretty good. The characters didn’t have much depth but then again this is just a middle grade book meant for people probably younger than me. The plot was probably the best out of the series. Overall this book was pretty good but nothing too exciting

thomasray's review

1.0

This book made the rest of them worth it. I can respect this author just for getting her book published.