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The Warrior Heir (The Heir Chronicles, #1)

Cinda Williams Chima

Start date: January 23, 2012

Finish date: February 16, 2012

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Jan 14, 2013 Emma rated it really liked it

Shelves: one-shots-series-starters, ya, could-have-been-better, 2014, 2014-novel, reread, adventure, romance

Original Rating: 5 stars

Second Rating: 3 stars

Why did I make the decision to reread this series...

I read this book years ago, and I loved it. The Warrior Heir is the first book I read from Chima and the wonderfulness of it led me to read The Demon King (and the rest of the series), which I love a lot. Since The Enchanter Heir was published last year (2013?), I thought rereading The Heir Chronicles will give me the full effect of the new book.

One aspect of the book that bugged me is the third per Original Rating: 5 stars

Second Rating: 3 stars

Why did I make the decision to reread this series...

I read this book years ago, and I loved it. The Warrior Heir is the first book I read from Chima and the wonderfulness of it led me to read The Demon King (and the rest of the series), which I love a lot. Since The Enchanter Heir was published last year (2013?), I thought rereading The Heir Chronicles will give me the full effect of the new book.

One aspect of the book that bugged me is the third person POV switching. Although I don't htink it is as bad as first person POV switching, it still disrupted the flow since there were time overlaps.

Also, the development overall for the story was poorly executed. Most of the background was done through dialogue through rapid-fire question and answer between characters. To top it off, some aspects of the magically world would repeated throughout the book to other character BECAUSE OF THE POV CHANGES. The reader doesn't need to hear the exact same fact twice just so you can show that a certain character is informed of the information.

The plot didn't progress as quickly as I remembered it; not much happens in this book in general. There were too many contrived plot devices.

It should be noted that The Warrior Heir is among the first of Chima's books, if not THE first published work of hers. Her writing has improved in The Seven Realms series. It's a little bit like John Green's books; many people began to read his books starting with The Fault in Our Stars and then working their way BACKWARDS through his works (which means his writing becomes worse and worse and worse...).

I was forced to drop my previous perfect rating of this book down two stars. It wasn't bad, but it was far from the amazing book I once saw this book as. I recommend that you check this book out at your local library and give it a try. However, if you've read The Demon King and loved it, don't expect The Warrior Heir to be as good.

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