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fantasybooktournament · 11 months
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the-book-ferret · 1 year
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Your friendly ferret reminder to read Finnikin of the Rock because it’s wonderful, plsthx!
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her-wind-cleaver · 3 months
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I remember when I first read the Lumatere Chronicles (which broke me in half and fed me gently through a meat grinder, highly recommend) and at the end our main boy, Finnikin, says to his beloved that he will gladly die for her and then she responds “promise to live for me first,” and I think about that interaction a totally normal amount considering it was maybe a decade ago
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Book Review: Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
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★★★☆☆
"Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best."
3.5
It honestly took me so long to warm up to this one.
I definitely saw the plot twist coming from a mile away, but I definitely forgive that. Plots are not the first thing I think of while praising a Marchetta novel. The first part goes way too heavy on the world-building and really takes away from the area where Marchetta excels: her characters. Once we focused on them, then I fell in the rhythm with the story. However, I would have preferred more focus on them from the start and then let the world unfold around them naturally.
I liked Finnikin after a while, but it still took me a bit to get to know him. I like that he feels very different the regular male fantasy protagonist in that he just wants to be a great warrior and isn't focused as much on what more he could represent. However, I just wish this had been made clearer in the beginning because I took a bit for me to focus in on his true arc.
I hated Evanjalin for the first bit, but I did come around to her. I do understand why she was so secretive at times, but others were absolutely overkill. She really needed to learn to trust her companions more, but I don't know if we really see that change as much as we needed.
The controversial sexual assault scene definitely could have been avoided and rewritten as something else. It really felt unnecessary and still spoils my enjoyment of that character's later scenes.
Overall, not my favourite Marchetta book, but hopefully the next books will pick up more for me.
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muchadorks · 6 months
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booksofdelight · 2 years
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Finnikin of the Rock: Book Review
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The fantasy genre has an endless array of novels and one trilogy that I came across almost a decade ago is Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta. Keep reading to find out if this fantasy novel is something you should add to your reading list. Finnikin of the Rock Summary Finnikin, Sir Topher meet Evanjalin and travel across the land to seek out their people and to return to their forsaken…
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CAN U BELIEVE!? turns out the secret to reading more is setting yourself actually obtainable goals for you and being kind to yourself 💛 😊 💛
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soldier-poet-king · 1 year
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Fran’s 2023 Winter Reads
Been reading a lot more this year (!!!) So turning this into a quarterly thing rather than a yearly one
January
The Red Company Reformed #2: The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul - Victoria Goddard
American Primitive - Mary Oliver
The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel #2: Murder on the Rockport Limited - Carey Pietsch & the McElroys
Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
Magdalene - Marie Howe
Lays of the Hearth Fire #1: The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard [reread]
Ninth House [reread] & Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo
The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood - Jennifer Traig
February
The Raven Cycle #2: The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater [reread]
Tuyo #2&3: Nikoles & Tarashana - Rachel Neumeier
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon [DNF @ 25%]
The Beautiful #1&2: The Beautiful & The Damned - Renée Ahdieh
The Saint of Steel #1: Paladin's Grace - T Kingfisher
Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adly Guirgis
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
Rai-Kirah #1: Transformation - Carol Berg
March
Lumatere Chronicles #1-3: Finnikin of the Rock, Froi of the Exiles, & Quintana of Charyn - Melina Marchetta
The Language of Flowers - Marina Heilmeyer
Crush - Richard Siken
Tuyo #4-6: Keraunani, Suelen, & Tano - Rachel Neumeier
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Vespertine - Margaret Rogerson
Naruto vol. 1-3 - Masashi Kishimoto
The Lonely City - Olivia Laing [DNF @ 50%]
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker
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dangermousie · 6 months
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Finished my Finnikin of the Rock reread. It’s still by far my least favorite of the trilogy and I still just can’t warm up to Evanjalin in it tho I come to like her later (I totally get why she is the way she is - it’s a well-written character -just not my jam.) It’s very well written and I do enjoy it but doesn’t do it for me the way the other two do. But woooo on to book 2, which I adore adore adore!
Btw @aysekira if you do decide to read this trilogy and find yourself blah on book 1 just skim/skip and move on to book 2. You can read book 2 fine without reading book 1. (Book 2/3 are just one long novel but book 1 is not that entwined.) And I promise Froi of the Exiles and Quintana of Charyn are amazing!
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kareenvorbarra · 1 year
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@chthonic-cassandra tagged me to share 5 books read since September that I have loved. I have...not read five books since September because I spent most of the second half of the year rereading scenes from Thick as Thieves, so these are from all of 2022:
Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner - definitely my top book of 2022! I read it in March I think? and I still think about it pretty much every day. also i've written tens of thousands of words of fanfic about it and i'm nowhere near done with that, which is still very exciting.
The Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner - it didn't consume my waking thoughts for months the way Thick as Thieves did, but I still really enjoyed it. I loved the way Pheris' personal story was interwoven with scenes he wasn't present for and occasional references to the future, and I liked how much attention was paid to side characters (even if I still wish there had been more women in the book overall).
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson - i've never actually sat down and read Sappho before, and i really enjoyed this version! i found the translations themselves beautiful, and i also had a great time reading the notes and learning a little more about Sappho herself and the ways in which fragments of her poetry survived.
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta - Anna recommended this to me and it took me a long time to get through it because i spent so much time writing this year, but once i hit a certain point in the action i did get hooked. it has a big cast of characters who are all endearing and interesting in their own ways, and even though the world-building felt a little flat at times it seems like the wider setting will be more fleshed-out in the sequels, which i definitely plan to read.
The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson - my first time reading this translation! i hadn't read the Odyssey in it's entirety since I read the Fagles translation for an English class when I was 14, and I have a lot more context for the story now, so revisiting it was very fun. i also loved Wilson's introduction and the perspective she brought to the translation, particularly the added clarity of language re: slavery (because I remember being 14 and not knowing whether or not certain characters were enslaved, and not having any way to find out!)
tagging @elwing, @wizardysseus, @imindhowwelayinjune, @vardasvapors, @veliseraptor, @yavieriel
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What made you first ship Andromeda and Ted? Do you like the dynamic of people from different backgrounds getting to know each other?
Ooooh excellent question.
First of all, I'm a sucker for stories about people from different backgrounds falling in love, Tom Branson and Sybill Crawley, Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, (lesser known) Isaboe and Finnikin from Finnikin of the Rock, Jesse and Suze from the Mediator series. So many of my favourite books include a story like this.
Then there's the fact that the tiny amount we know about Ted and Andromeda from canon gives us a hint at a wonderful story and I love my little headcanon and exploring their characters.
I do have plans to explore their differences a bit further which include Andromeda's internalised prejudices, and Ted's background and struggle to find his place in the world, but to be completely honest I'm not having the best time with my personal life at the moment, so I'm sticking to lighter, fluffier topics for the time being.
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wizardysseus · 2 years
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1. answered here!
6. what books have you read in the last month?
bloom by kevin panetta
ace by angela chen
silence in the land of logos by silvia montiglio
only a monster by vanessa len
jade fire gold by june cl tan
hellboy winter special 2016 by mike mignola
the sorrow dance by denise levertov
hellboy and the bprd 1952-1954 by mike mignola
piranesi by susanna clarke
finnikin of the rock by melina marchetta
blessing the boats by lucille clifton
bprd hell on earth volume 1 by mike mignola
... not including the 8 books i’m currently still reading. it’s possible i have too much time on my hands, but it’s not my fault i don’t have gainful full-time employment
18. do you like historical books? which time period?
i don’t particularly like historical fiction, tbh. i like classics written in a lot of time periods, but contemporary authors writing it don’t compel me.
19. most disliked popular books?
ok, founder of my chapter of the madeline miller hate club.... questions you definitely don’t know the answers to....
so i just googled ‘popular books on tiktok’ and the song of achilles, circe, a court of thorns and roses, and carry on by rainbow rowell seem to be the worst offenders.
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wordsofminds · 2 years
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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
-Finnikin of the Rock
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