Continuation of the interesting narrative style of book one, and an interesting story.

Enjoyed the settings and the world. Kind of fluffy, formulaic romance. Interested enough to reserve book two.

Interesting format, shakes free of most of its teenage gushiness to tell an interesting sci fi action adventure story.

Sliding doors type fiction, well done. Sometime joyous, sometimes reflective, sometimes heart wrenching.

Cute, charming story, fun to read aloud with me 4 year old over several evenings. Enough pictures and fun voices to keep her interested in a longer story.

This is an amazing book. Beautiful and challenging and sad and inspiring and educational. Everyone should read it. I kept it overdue from the library a week so I could finish it.

I had a hard time with this book. I was interested in the characters and the plot, but it was so dark and violent and heavy (genocide, torture, everyone running for their lives almost the whole book) that I gave up reading for real and skimmed the second half quickly just to find what happened.

Unique fantasy world, rooted in the Romans and the Middle East. A little more dark and violent than my ideal, but gripping and not violent enough to make me stop reading. Interesting characters and plot and enough intrigues left to make me want to read the next book.

This the third book in this trilogy and I liked it as much as the first (which I liked a lot) but for somewhat different reasons. I'm no longer as pleasantly surprised by the world building (it is the last book), but I continue to enjoy the evolution of Elisa's character into her full strength.

I love the details of Howey's writing - his descriptions, images, symbolism and world building are all really interesting and well done. However, his plot lines tend to become depressingly dark for the second half of the book (making it a bit of a slog) till a glimmer of light at the end.

Hugh Howey has the best titles. Each of them works on at least three levels.

The first half was conceptually interesting, but a bit slow and fragmented (and quite awkwardly translated). The second half was grippingly imaginative and fascinating. Very interested to read the third book when it comes out on English this fall.

Darker, more claustrophobic, and therefore more of a slog than the Girl of Fire and Thorns. The last 25% was reasonably interesting... Enough that I'll probably read the third book in the trilogy... Eventually.

Eh. Passed the time as I drove, but don't need to rush out and get the sequel (unlike the other two books I've read most recently). Basically I found the narrator / protagonist too passive and too annoying. And the ending, while interesting, came out of nowhere.

Got this as a library e-book, and loving it. Interesting Spanish-flavored fantasy world (the countries are Valle de Oro, Joya de Arena, and Invierne), and a heroine with lots of guts and also lots of growth and evolution.

Free audiobook I've been listening to as I drive home from work... Mostly keeps me distracted from the traffic, but... Meh?

Bit slow at times, but an interesting world.

Fascinating. Both for the hard sci fi and for the Chinese cultural context. Translated language is sometimes a bit awkward, but worth persisting through.