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A review by jenbsbooks
Heirs of Empire by Evan Currie
adventurous
2.5
2.5 stars? Hmmmm -- how to rate this. 3* means "I liked it" (not as much as 4* or 5* of course) and 2* generally has something that bugged me/didn't like (more for a 1*). Here ... there was nothing I was critical of; the writing was fine, the story was okay ... I just really never got pulled in. It didn't keep my interest, I finished it, but it was a bit of a push and I don't think I'll remember it. Not going to go on to the sequel.
After some realistic/contemporary/historical I really WANTED something different and sought this out (looking for fantasy included in KU w/audio). This turned out to be more sci-fi than fantasy though, and with the "empire" and "imperial" and "The Senate" and the bad guy who ends up half-machine and the boy/girl twins who are the heirs (not Skywalker, but "Scourwind" even has the S....W...) but too many parallels to Star Wars for me.
I don't give recaps in my reviews ... probs a good thing, as I don't think I absorbed enough of the story (was there enough of a story?) to write one up. It started right off with the action (prologue ... I often wonder why some things are a "prologue" and not just the first chapter ... I had that though here) - a train through a snowy mountain, an "enhanced" character Mira (would have liked to learn a little more about that, felt like it was mentioned a couple times but not really explored). I liked Mira. Then there were the twins, Kayle and Lydia. The bad guy. So basically the story was Mira helping the twins take back the empire from the bad guy.
Everything was 3rd person/past tense - staying chronological.
I went with the audio, although I turned to the Kindle text at times (very rarely a book will capture me in text if it didn't in audio ... unfortunately not the case here). One thing I've been tracking ... is the f-bomb in it. Again, have to say yes, even though it was just once.
After some realistic/contemporary/historical I really WANTED something different and sought this out (looking for fantasy included in KU w/audio). This turned out to be more sci-fi than fantasy though, and with the "empire" and "imperial" and "The Senate" and the bad guy who ends up half-machine and the boy/girl twins who are the heirs (not Skywalker, but "Scourwind" even has the S....W...) but too many parallels to Star Wars for me.
I don't give recaps in my reviews ... probs a good thing, as I don't think I absorbed enough of the story (was there enough of a story?) to write one up. It started right off with the action (prologue ... I often wonder why some things are a "prologue" and not just the first chapter ... I had that though here) - a train through a snowy mountain, an "enhanced" character Mira (would have liked to learn a little more about that, felt like it was mentioned a couple times but not really explored). I liked Mira. Then there were the twins, Kayle and Lydia. The bad guy. So basically the story was Mira helping the twins take back the empire from the bad guy.
Everything was 3rd person/past tense - staying chronological.
I went with the audio, although I turned to the Kindle text at times (very rarely a book will capture me in text if it didn't in audio ... unfortunately not the case here). One thing I've been tracking ... is the f-bomb in it. Again, have to say yes, even though it was just once.