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Warning: this contains spoilers. Where do we start? This book had so much potential, but it just fell flat for me. I love reading about a universe, and the politics behind it. I love books with monarchies, and corrupt governments. I feel li I was sent an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review. Overall, the magic system was poor. But this book destroyed whatever chemistry they shared, and flushed it down the drain. The Pacing: The pacing was all over the place.
Some scenes were too long, and dragged on. Some scenes were too short, and were too quick. He was two-dimensional. He had no redeeming quality. The characters just go on and on and on. I found her annoying a lot of the times which is strange to me, because I loved her in TSC. The only characters I enjoyed in this book were Pippa, and Cosima.
Everyone else sucked. I love fake political systems. I love real political systems. I read a page book in 5 days. I often finish page books in 2 days, or less. In fact, I prefer long books most of the time. I love spending time with characters. But this book? Way too long. Or B Less characters to focus on at once. But no. I wish she spent more time with her character, and her backstory.
It just fell flat. I love TSC, and I plan on giving this series another chance. This book just fell flat. I recommend you give it a try. You might like it a lot more than I did. Have a good day, and thank you for reading this review.
Oct 01, AlzarinCrimson rated it did not like it. Fair warning: Lots of spoilers!!! Where to begin? So, as with the first book, the problem of one dimensional characters carries on into this one. Tobias was even more flat in this than TSC. It is utterly comical how stereotyped t!!! It is utterly comical how stereotyped the male characters are. Brontes is a moustache twirling villain with lines that made me bust up laughing. I just do not buy it. That is toootally not an overused stereotype.
Another thing is characters repeating themselves unnecessarily. It got old way fast, as did the myriad of conversations that should have been axed. There was so much unnecessary dialogue. I also realized something in regards to Leila acting as a healer in the Labyrinth. She does not want the men to know she is the Savior, okay cool. Okay… But, it is known to the men that the Savior has the ability to share her gifts, as demonstrated by Pippa. So, why could Leila have not simply said she was appointed as healer and granted the power for the duration of the tournament?
It would have been believable especially since people outside of the palace are taught that the Savior is a supremely powerful being who has the ability to end war, famine, and plague. It would make sense that the Savior is both powerful and benevolent enough to share her healing magic for a set period of time.
What battlefield exactly was this on then? But later, she herself even says there have been no wars in centuries. Leila was so annoying this time around, much more so than in TSC. She has some weird moral high ground and judges people for inane things.
Is that not what she was asked to do? So what, she enjoyed sleeping with some of the men? Delphi also has sex with people she is attracted to, just like Cosima. I get it, Cosima is also "moving against" Leila or whatever so that makes all the hate make sense in the end. Also Leila is always correcting people and spends a huge chunk of her time around other people being shocked.
Cartoonish villains, flat characters, dry plot. There was no reason that the excess filler in TSC and the excess filler in this book could not be omitted to combine the split perspective of Leila and Tobias. View 1 comment. Oct 11, Gemma Riddle d'aniello rated it did not like it Shelves: fantasy , romance , royals , nope , drama , inglese , I swear, if I have to read the word "cock" one more time This is going to be long and possibly spoilery, so if you loved this book, just skip my review because we are obviously not going to have the same opinion.
Also, English is not my first language, so sorry in advance for every mistake. I didn't particularly like The Savior's Champion when I read it, but I wanted to see where the story was going. Nowhere apparently.
You see, I was convinced this was a follow-up to TSC. I guess it is my fau I swear, if I have to read the word "cock" one more time I guess it is my fault for not reading the blurb. But still…why isn't this a sequel? Why would you rewrite the same story before the series is over? And make it an entire book? I see no reason for it. What I did found were plot-holes everywhere, heaps of characters and not one of them memorable, a kick-ass heroine that is actually really, really dumb, and endless talk of sex and male genitalia that just made everyone sound immature.
Extremely repetitive This book is not strong enough to stand on its own. Even the most wonderful plot needs to be told from the right POV. Imagine the Hunger Games but written from the perspective of, let's say, Katniss's sister Prim. We would be stuck in District 12, only occasionally tuning in to watch the games, but never actually being in the core of the action. In TSS we still follow the tournament and the romance occupies a good chunk of the book, but we just have to read how many times Leila bathes during the day.
The pacing is all over the place. Every scene it's like wash, rinse, repeat. The worst were in the Senate. It always started with Leila going in not having a clue of what was happening she never had a plan, or a speech prepared in advance that could help her deal with her father and then being reminded extensively that she holds no power, thus being humiliated by Brontes and the Senators.
There were no surprises, their evolution was a flat line throughout the book. Tension was non-existent. And how could it be otherwise since I already know what is going to happen?
Description It was either too much or not enough. But a list is not going to evoke anything. And that brings me to the descriptions of the scenery. I spent a long time trying to figure out what bothered me about it. She uses the plural for everything. The pots, the busts, the ceilings, the flowers of all kinds what kind? I am not a writer, I am in no position to give advices, but I read a lot of books and these descriptions are too vague.
Half of the time I had trouble picturing where the action was taking place and who was where in a room, or in relation to the building.
Superficially it looks like a solid wall, but the moment you try to poke a hole in it, the wall crumbles down. A lot of it is taken from Roman-Greek culture and set in a desolate land where water and food would be scarce if not for the intervention of the Savior. Ok, so what it is? A monarchy? An oligarchy? Are there castes, nobility? What are its political figures and how is the power distributed?
How convenient. A deity should not be regarded in the same way you regard a head of state. Yes, there are rebels apparently. Exactly to what are these people rebelling to? To peace and prosperity? If they lived in peace for centuries, why would they be so violent-centric? Romans were all about their military because they were constantly conquering land. Thessen is barely surviving because of special snowflake powers. I turn the realm green. My light does that, as did the light of every Savior before Me.
Or have you forgotten where we came from? Thessen was a wasteland. That would solve a lot of your problems. Now, if her powers were fake , that would be entirely different.
In that case, I could buy that the Senators would be just chill with the idea of killing her. All those words and dialogues spent discussing cocks would have been better spent if used to give information to the reader.
Just saying. Smart heroine…not. I mean, is there not a map of Thessen in the entire palace? She also has magic on her side. Excuse me? You can fucking appear and disappear as you like, why have you never thought of sneaking out before? One guard is stationed outside her chamber. Surely there are people in the palace going in and out. Are there no servants bringing in supplies, no people being hired from the villages, no visitors? Thessen who? Her shadow walking seems to work only when the author says so.
Whenever Leila is in grave danger she conveniently forgets how to use it. If I knew someone wanted me dead, I would train the hell out of my powers to be able to use it under stress. People call her Your Holiness! Confusing plans If you take time to analyze Leila, Brontes sheer stupidity suddenly makes sense, as it must be hereditary.
What exactly is his objective here? He wants the throne, okay, we get it, but who the hell is he going to rule if everyone dies?
Having no food, no water, no fit soldiers to sustain a war or, no soldiers at all, if the population dies is really going to help you conquer all those other kingdoms. Go Brontes. So…he gave up plans entirely? You hired assassins, not even being subtle about it oh look, three scrolls from the contestants are missing, I wonder who the killers are? I must be honest, though, I did enjoy Brontes in the book. He was so over the top evil, so at least the scenes with him were funny. I also liked Cosima for the same reason, because she was so obviously a double-faced traitor and she loved every second of it.
Skip it? Just highlight the most important parts and leave space for new content. Instalust The relationship between Tobias and Leila is not built up at all, is just instalove. If you are able to wade through the pages and pages of cringy dialogue, it becomes clear their only focus is physical attraction. Her knees would get wobbly because of the stupidest things.
The Artist. Age: Hair: brown. Eyes: black. She faltered. Black eyes are very common in my country, are they not in the rest of the world? His cock. A gasp swelled in Her throat. It was staring right at Her. Long, smooth. My God Tobias, you should get that checked out.
There are a lot of instances where the fantasy setting is ruined by modern slang. We can multitask. And so is Hebrew! But honestly, after reading so many inconsistencies my suspension of disbelief was nowhere to be found. Maybe when Jenna writes the sequel I will pick it up but for now I'll stick to the videos. Oct 11, CC's rated it did not like it Shelves: dnf. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. I am so conflicted giving this book such a bad rating because I like supporting indie authors, but I have to be honest.
I know how hard writing a book is and I do not take that for granted. That said, this is so bad. I gave it a good try, don't come at me. I think she gives some decent writing advice and she's witty and funny. However, when I learned that TSS would be a compani I am so conflicted giving this book such a bad rating because I like supporting indie authors, but I have to be honest. However, when I learned that TSS would be a companion novel that followed the same timeline as TSC, I was immediately concerned because how was she going to pull off writing on the same timeline, from the perspective of a character who was central to TSC, and not repeat a ton of stuff we already knew?
I even asked Jenna this on one of her Instagram stories and she seemed a little put off by my question of whether it was the same story but told through different eyes Well, having finished TSS, I can safely say it was the exact same story, but told through Leila's point of view. Moreci just had no idea how execute one and it showed. Look, I get it. There were a ton of unanswered questions in TSC because we only got one POV, and Tobias didn't know the things that pertained to Leila's life enough to give us any insight.
However, TSC was so incredibly and unnecessarily long, as was TSS, and the story within both of these novels is simply not told well. The plot was really weak, there was no worldbuilding, and little-to-no characterization. In my opinion, these "two" stories should have been combined. The reader should have been given two POVs in the first book and the suspense should have been built from there.
It makes no sense to have a companion novel from the POV of someone who was HUGE in the first book, especially when it literally did not add anything exciting to the story more on that below. I began reading, and the moment Leila appeared in a scene, I knew she was The Savior.
The way they tried to explain away this plot twist in TSS made no sense whatsoever and felt extremely forced. Look, I write, I get that every story has been told. I get that every plot has been written. That is why tropes exists. I can tell where Moreci was going with it but she missed the mark. By a lot. Leila has known her whole life that her father wants to have her killed.
There is this huge plot to murder her, so why the hell wouldn't Brontes know that she was literally hiding in plain sight of the people hired to kill her? How could he not know that when this murder plot had gone on for so damn long?
Leila seemed to be able to come and go with literally no issue at all. This is what the novel has to say about that: Delphi scowled. You think he'll just allow this little switch to happen? As The Savior, I'm required to attend most of the challenges.
My father can hardly tolerate being in the same room as Me. It's that easy? Brontes is not a very good villain, then, is he? Brontes comes across as the puniest, most boring, non-menacing, one-dimensional idiot. His senators are being picked off one by one, by Leila, and he has no clue. How is it that Leila can come and go with no issues whatsoever? Also, if he kills Leila, doesn't the realm go to shit anyway? The only reason the realm does okay is because she blesses it while sunbathing naked no, I am not kidding.
I understand that she is defending herself since her father is trying to murder her for her throne and her power, but her lack of empathy, social skills, and remorse made her into the true villain of this story. That would have been a better twist. Meanwhile, the bad guys are supposed to be these horrible, unforgiving men… who do nothing the whole book. It honestly read like an oversight on her part.
It was a train wreck. Advice for authors: The reader should know if to root for a character or not. Give us reasons to like them, even if they make shitty decisions and do bad things. Make them human and relatable. This goes for your villains too. If they do, you failed. You can tell JM loves Leila. You can tell this is a favorite character because of the language used surrounding her.
However, the mark was missed again with the senators. Every single time she fought one of the senators, she was able to defeat them with no issue, no injuries, and no delays in her schedule of doing nothing but simp after Tobias. This is literally what would happen: She would barge into senators' quarters, demand they answer her questions about her father's plans, and when she got her answer, she'd murder them.
That in itself is okay, whatever. A girl gotta do what a girl gotta do. But the problem was her attitude right after. She would have Delphi clean up her mess and then she would never think of it again. No remorse, no indication that she cared. It was an oversight and it shows. As a reader, Leila was a better villain than Brontes and the assassins hired to murder her combined. That would have been the better twist.
I would have died! And not to mention the fact that she'd go from murdering someone to going to the atrium to see her love interest and she'd be clean of any blood. There was never mention of her cleaning herself, changing, or anything like that.
Is her magic all-encompasing enough that she never gets dirty? No way to know since the magic system is literally incomprehensible. JM never once explains how it works. Leila was also really mean to people even though she claimed to want to be treated like a normal person. It was so trite and uninspired and it made me sad because I really thought someone like Moreci, who is so good at giving advice, would follow her own advice and write characters a reader could connect with.
Moreci constantly talks about tropey characters and how much she hates female characters exactly like Leila. So what's the point of her POV then? Leila is obviously not growing at all. There was no character arc, nothing to learn, nothing new other than the murders. Shit happened and Leila reacted--usually with insane jealousy or anger, especially where Cosima was concerned. Cosima is painted like this terrible character but to be completely honest, I liked her more than I liked Leila. And the fact that she is written like this horrible slut who sleeps with everyone made me very angry.
Slut shaming is not cool. Get with the times. I had Covid early on and recovered after two days. I did book a vaccine, but it was during the time I was suffering badly from vertigo.
I was terrified of my vertigo attacks and read the vaccine could exacerbate it. As a deaf person, masks interfere with my hearing — anything near my hearing aids makes them whistle. Masks on others mean I can no longer lip read. Then I deleted it. What she does is up to her. I am anti-vax for me. I had told him off for continuing to smoke, meaning his arteries are constricted in his legs, making walking painful.
He was so angry that I said he should stop smoking and at least be able to walk, he called me the C-word and stormed off on a long drive back to London, while tired. How is that more responsible than me not getting jabbed? You can kill someone with your car. You can die from a stroke.
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