The Grimoire of Grave Fates

Interesting Concept - Frustrating read

Bewertung aus Stephanskirchen am 20.06.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2520278
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

I bought this book because I liked the concept and especially the way it promised to integrate multiple different cultures into a magic system and that this book does very well. The characters are for the most part very interesting and nice to follow. However, that you get only one chapter per character and then it most times moves on to somewhere entirely else where you have no connection to he previous events or characters makes it a very frustrating read and demotivated you when you just got interested in the one storyline. Then there are characters who act completely irridical and with no sense whatsoever completely defying any logic whatsoever taking you even further out of the story. So in the end it's a book that had a very I teresting concept, but in the end I had to really fight to not simply dnf it. It was a struggle to turn to the next page because you simply lost interest in getting involved with a character because they'd be discarded in a few pages anyways, which is sad because most of the characters were really great and I'd love to read a book about them and their magic alone, but all in all I can't really recommend that book beyond some interesting magical concepts and characters.