Greatcoats: Traitor's Blade (spoiler free review) by Sebastien de Castell
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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2024
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Thanks! I have a super hot hair stylist that lets me sleep with her. She also gives me haircuts for free!
Nice Deus ex machina😅@@MattsFantasyBookReviews
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Matt hated the book so much he misspelled “musketeer” in the thumbnail for satire
Couldn't agree more! I had such high expectations after an amazing first few pages. The prose and dialogue were great, for me, but the plot not so much. All the deus ex machina was RIDICULOUS
I read this book about 5 years ago. Couldn't agree more. Didn't continue the series. Also didn't remember a single detail of the story until watching this review. Your tastes continue to be on point with mine. Great review!
Oof! I really enjoyed this book a few years back. Planning to re-read it and then continue the series. Sorry to hear it didn't work for you!
8 redwoods!? How big is your backyard?
Your instincts on "deus ex machina" are pretty good:
it's approximately "day-oos eks mah-kee-nah" in the dialects of English I'm familiar with. I'll leave the historical pronunciation in Ancient Greek to someone else.
I’m with you on this one Matt - I did mostly like the first two books but I disliked the series overall and each individual book more and more as I went on unfortunately 😭
Goodness gracious. I almost bought this the other day for the same reason that the premise sounded interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
I haven't read that series as of yet, but I wanted to note that if that if you stuck with that distribution of Goodreads scores as your indicator/deciding factor, you never would have read Sun Eater as Traitor's Blade scores are remarkably similar to Empire of Silence.
Oh no I was looking forward to this series. Maybe I don't have to rush to pick it up.
You still should read it if you were interested in it. You might like it more than he did.
@@tel4650 I definitely will but with my backlog it may go on the back burner for a bit. I was gonna start with this author with Malevolent 7. Thoughts?
@@Talking_Story I hear you. My TBR list is out of hand. Pick up whichever sounds more interesting to you. I haven’t read anything from this author so I couldn’t tell you which one of his books are better. All the best.
@@Talking_StoryMalevolent Seven is completely separate from Greatcoats and a perfectly fine starting point. That was Lezlie from The Nerdy Narrative's intro to him and she loved it.
@@thatsci-firogue awesome thanks! Just go this book in.
With you on this one…enjoyed the first bit, expected a good old chase and revenge tale but was disappointed by what followed.
I had EXACTLY the same thoughts when I read this one back in 2019! Although I gave it 3 stars. I was more charitable back then.
My review actually has the line "My reactions to these encounters changed from fist-pumping satisfaction to eyebrow-raising disbelief until finally I found myself rolling my eyes at a serious dose of deux ex machina." Great minds Matt
I read this series probably 3 or 4 years ago now, so I don't remember many details. Some people really love this series. I thought it was fine. The first 2 books are better than the last 2, and parts of it get really weird. The 3rd book is just completely out of left field. So yeah, not my favorite. But it really seems like a lot of people loved it.
Shoot- I bought this the other week on offer. Hope I'm going to like it 😬
Read this book a while back and the only thing I remember is the out of nowhere rape scene!
Think one of the male characters is passed out and a unknown woman comes along and has sex with him while he is unconscious and its never talked about again and just ignored.
I assume its followed up on and explained in the next book but I have no intention of reading it to find out.
Opposite of my comment yesterday. Sometimes you know a book is going to be a stinker before you read and this is one of those.
The books are good when all three greatcoats are together. As soon as they are separated it gets dull.
I totally agree with you on this one, Matt. Tried reading this a few months ago but had to stop halfway through. Definitely the unpopular opinion though so you might get flamed lol.
"Day-us ex makina"
day-us ex mah-key-nah
Actually this is really sad to hear, since the book has been on my wishlist for a while and i considered getting it for a summer read. But i just don't want to deal with a book i have to put effort into reading for half or more of the page time; i want to keep my reading as a pleasure, and not have to make myself do it
I enjoy this book and series, but yeah De Castell makes some really weird choices, thankfully less as the series progresses. I will say this, the series does improve but the improvements aren't drastic so I advise anyone who didn't like Book 1 to just DNF.
I agree. This one was DNF for me
This was also a DNF for me for exactly the reasons Matt iterated. Very disappointing because it started out so good.
😭😭😭😭😭 One of my favourite authors 😭😭😭😭😭 I think this and Discworld are the only series our tastes differ on
I don't disagree, I read the whole series and I liked it a bit more than you, but I can't really disagree much with your take.
Completely agree. I was so disappointed when I read it and the 2nd book was just as bad (if not worse). No clue why booktube loves it so much
Book did not work for me at all… and I really wanted to like it too! Bought a whole series but could not get past this first book. Politics and action were so mediocre in this one
Ye I wasn't a fan of this book either it had a few things going for it but overall pretty meh.
Oh no... I'm at 25%... hopefully I disagree
De Castells writing is very subpar imo. The characters are almost always chatacatures.