Sarah reviewed House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Much of the same
3 stars
I’ve recently read the “a court of thorns and roses”-series and, despite the different setting and story; a lot of things seem just the same in this book. The characters don’t feel new; they talk the same, act the same and reacts the same. Especially the main characters and that’s a bit boring. I think I would have liked the book a lot better if this had been my first Maas book. Another thing that kept bugging me was how this “different” world has so much of our modern world in it (mostly from USA), like holidays, customs, trends, technology, only with different names. It gets ridiculous many times. Especially when Maas has used ALL fairy tale creatures. How can so much in this world be exactly the same as ours?! There’s fae, angels, mermaids (mer), vampires (vampyrs), witches, demons, shifters (of all kinds, not only werewolves), fauns, sprites, and …
I’ve recently read the “a court of thorns and roses”-series and, despite the different setting and story; a lot of things seem just the same in this book. The characters don’t feel new; they talk the same, act the same and reacts the same. Especially the main characters and that’s a bit boring. I think I would have liked the book a lot better if this had been my first Maas book. Another thing that kept bugging me was how this “different” world has so much of our modern world in it (mostly from USA), like holidays, customs, trends, technology, only with different names. It gets ridiculous many times. Especially when Maas has used ALL fairy tale creatures. How can so much in this world be exactly the same as ours?! There’s fae, angels, mermaids (mer), vampires (vampyrs), witches, demons, shifters (of all kinds, not only werewolves), fauns, sprites, and the list goes on and on… With this said, I still liked much of the story. It had some unexpected parts in it, even though it got a bit slow from time to time. I will read the second book, but won’t get my hopes up. If I could I would’ve given it 3.5 stars.
