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I liked it. It was written well actually. I love the nostalgia feeling from the hunger games book series. The Meadow song, the house at the end of the seam, the lake and the goat and more specially the hanging tree song. Now knowing who wrote that song and who sang it and how it will be the song that will hunt President Snow 64-65 years from that point. I loved the reference of the jabberjays and mockingjays and how Snow hated it and how it will taunt Snow in the future. It gave the mockingjay symbol more context, more deeper meaning. Ohhh how he loathed that birds. Especially when he said something like, "let her fly there with her birds, she won't touched him ever" ohh how wrong he was. As that very birds he hated will be the one that will taunt him the very last year's of his life, ironic. The author written it well I think because she never painted Snow someone to sympathize with, or fall in the cliche of making him live a traumatic life so traumatic that made him a villain or that his heart is broken to pieces and he shall revenge it all by cruelty. No because whatever heart left of him he was also the one who killed it. Snow is Capitol through in through. Even with a young innocent Snow, he is already a manipulative, vile and driven by power. Control. It's nice to see the POV of the Capitol and now knowing why they were like that in Katniss time. I guess letting a psychopath doctor on the loose and making her powerful is the repercussions of it all. Lucy Gray on the other hand, until the end is a mystery to me. Did she truly loved Snow? Did she truly trusted him? Or did she played him? The part in the shed about her running away with the rebels with Billy, how much truth and lie that was. At what part did she finally see the real Snow?? She is smart girl what drive her to do that in the end??.. Or did Snow only see it differently and acted on his own?? I wonder, he never gone to see if she was really dead. I do wish to know her point of view but well, we will never know... I liked that even though she is gone 64-65 years past, she came back to hunt down Snow in Katniss Everdeen. That part my be cliche but it's alright. 😂 If you change your mindset on how to read it, not expecting warm and happy ever after since it's not a happy warm story because it's just a prequel in the POV of a villain, like origin story and just go on blind with just curiosity I think you will likely it, I liked it. And if you are a hunger games fan also I think you'll love the nostalgia.

The first book wasn't as great as the books that followed it but don't be dismayed as it is only the start of this book series. If you love strong woman main lead this book is definitely for you as I loved Celeana aka Aelin. She is fierce, strong, flawed yet unbelievable and so unapologetic 😂. She's one strong fierce queen, definitely. And the side characters are one to love too. There is a character building in each and everyone of them as the story shift from different Perspective. If you are knew to Sarah Maas Fae stories, I recommend you to read the throne of glass series before acotar and crescent moon but if you had already read either of those, it still good to read it still.

It was fine but not crazy for it though. 3/4 of the book was monotone for me.. Enchantments of Ravens and Uprooted has more personality than this book or story despite them having the same plot idea of whisking a young girl somewhere she isn't familiar with and envelope her with otherworldly lore and magic until she navigates herself to find herself while falling in love with someone of that magical place. The only part that stir my monotone feeling while reading this book is the 1/4 part of the book toward the end where the fighting and stuff started and where the solving the main problem is happening, did it stir my hear enough to gain 5 star? 4 star?? No. Just 3 star. And... And some parts are... 👉👈 cringe.. Yup.. I roll my eyes everytime and I did it often times too. Well it was good read for just passing time or light reading but if you want to go away and be at awe and be lost to the fantasy world by reading this is not the book for it.

The CGI was good. The world building is there and you can easily follow but the problem for me is that---- I find it hard to sympathize or empathize with the characters, really hard. You can follow the story at how and who and where it is leading but it feels like the writers had to cram all information in a few episodes that is why every character building felt rushed and so it is hard to feel all the emotions that you as a viewer or someone being told by the story should feel. I understand it's from a book and naturally they can't all put everything shot by shot, that they can only choose what scene to make but I've seen series with only few episodes yet it can make you drawn to it, feel every character or how the story goes and wonder where it is going, sadly shannara did not deliver that for me. I guess by trying to make sense of the story the writers or whoever in charge just made it understandable of this shannara world that some part of story telling is lost in it too. Idk, I just couldn't really pin point why it is hard to feel for every character or every turn in the story, ohhh maybe it's the script really, yup, poor writing, not so good directing too maybe? Or was it the acting that made the feeling lost? But mostly I guess the script writing made it all bad. Good writing indeed makes a good story and shannara is bad script writing.

I like the book I would give it a 5 star but I felt like there are somethings lacking for me like why is Sarkan always grumpy? With scowling a lot? I hope that part had more story. About Marek. Idk he is confusing to me. I like the main character I found her funny but sometimes I frowned at her at being too messy, I mean I understand she loves the woods and her clumsiness is adorable specially next with Sarkan but?? Idk. Good book though. Not overly on romance but the magic and fantasy are there.