The Green Bone Saga
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Pros
- I personally adored that entire series, loved both novellas, and would deeply love to finally get a book from Ayt's POV. What a fantastic antagonist, though I fully understand why Fonda Lee doesn't want to have any POVs for her.
- In The Green Bone Saga we follow people at the peak of their abilities and the story follows them as they age, getting worse at some things and better as others.
- Ayt Mada was an extremely well written antagonist. ... It's refreshing for a novel like this to have so many powerful depictions of women.
- The Green Bone Saga is the best trilogy I have ever read! It just hit all the right spots for me. ... the green bone saga was the perfect blend of everything I like in my books.
- *The Green Bone Saga* is my all time favorite series. I have it ranked higher than big names like *The Wheel of Time* and *The Dresden Files* and smaller but still high quality names like *The Dandelion Dynasty* and *The Memoirs of Lady...
Cons
- Here are books that I have tried but that were either just okay or I was lukewarm about them. ... Iron prince, Greatcoats, Six of Crows, Broken Earth trilogy, Monster hunter international, Corpies, The tainted cup, Foundryside, The perfe...
- So the trilogy was good but i had several problems with it. ... And to be honest, Wen really wasn't that well written. Sometimes her whole personality revolved around being Hilo's wife.
- I DNFd about 2/3s through the first book. Sometimes it just doesn't click.
- I've seen a bunch of glowing reviews for this lately so I figured I would try it. I'm on the last book and have found it pretty underwhelming. I haven't found one character that really shines. There is not a truly interesting antagonist....
- Book one was a 5/5 book for me! Unfortunately the time jumps, focus on politics, and overall change in pacing really kind of hurt my enjoyment of the sequels.
Sentiment
8 positive (57%) · 4 mixed (29%) · 2 negative (14%)
Trust + time weighted score: +46% · raw score 43%
What redditors said (10 of 14)
I personally adored that entire series, loved both novellas, and would deeply love to finally get a book from Ayt's POV. What a fantastic antagonist, though I fully understand why Fonda Lee doesn't want to have any POVs for her.
In The Green Bone Saga we follow people at the peak of their abilities and the story follows them as they age, getting worse at some things and better as others.
Here are books that I have tried but that were either just okay or I was lukewarm about them. ... Iron prince, Greatcoats, Six of Crows, Broken Earth trilogy, Monster hunter international, Corpies, The tainted cup, Foundryside, The perfect run, kings of the wyld, The green bone saga, Sabriel, sun eater, Mage errant, The demon cycle, Mark of the fool, mother of learning, he who fights with monsters, arcane ascension, the iron druid chronicles, the blacktongue thief, the lightbringer series, the night angel series, spellmonger series.
Ayt Mada was an extremely well written antagonist. ... It's refreshing for a novel like this to have so many powerful depictions of women.
So the trilogy was good but i had several problems with it. ... And to be honest, Wen really wasn't that well written. Sometimes her whole personality revolved around being Hilo's wife.
I DNFd about 2/3s through the first book. Sometimes it just doesn't click.
I've seen a bunch of glowing reviews for this lately so I figured I would try it. I'm on the last book and have found it pretty underwhelming. I haven't found one character that really shines. There is not a truly interesting antagonist. It's not boring it's just really forgettable.
Book one was a 5/5 book for me! Unfortunately the time jumps, focus on politics, and overall change in pacing really kind of hurt my enjoyment of the sequels.
The Green Bone Saga is the best trilogy I have ever read! It just hit all the right spots for me. ... the green bone saga was the perfect blend of everything I like in my books.
*The Green Bone Saga* is my all time favorite series. I have it ranked higher than big names like *The Wheel of Time* and *The Dresden Files* and smaller but still high quality names like *The Dandelion Dynasty* and *The Memoirs of Lady Trent.* I've recently started my fourth read-through of the series—I read it once a year—and once again I am utterly stunned by how good it is.
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