Tempest (Deluxe Limited Edition) - (Lyrian Sea) by Victoria Aveyard (Hardcover)
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so close to greatness!
Actual rating: 3.75 . *I received an eARC from Harper Voyager, Harper Collins Canada, & NetGalley. All opinions are my own.* . First thing is first, I really enjoyed my time with Tempest, I just have a lot of things to say about it lol . I have… many a feeling. Not in that they’re especially bad ones, more so that this book was so, so close to being great. I need to preface that the story here was about a 3.75 stars; there’s craft, there’s skill, but the romantic elements and the pacing were dragging this down. I really liked this story, I just wanted it to be better and it was so close to being better that I am going to rant lol . To start off, the biggest issue I have with this book is the pacing. There could be something interesting pulled off with the back and forth of timeline chapters, but it feels as though absolutely nothing happens for the first 40% of the book in either timelines. Aveyard chose a gold mine of worldbuilding when she chose to start this book 6 months after the fall of a Pirate Republic - the consequences, the scrabbling, the power vacuums - it is an impeccable choice of timing for a fantasy story. This is our After timeline. As someone who doesn’t like dual timelines, I was actually also very invested in the Before timeline as well, which chronicles our MC Cat’s arrival into the fantasy Caribbean with her lame husband and her first encounters with the dread pirate Valerian (Princess Bride reference for you). I really enjoyed her internal struggles, her desperation to survive and thrive. And you could see her slowly becoming the woman we see in the first chapter of the Before timeline. Look at me, enjoying a dual timeline! . But then the After timeline… oh how nothing happens. And when there is finally momentum, Cat pulls a twist that feels not earned in the least. It feels like all the time we had where nothing happened or, if we were lucky, Cat was trying to do something - it felt wasted by that plot twist. It was incredibly frustrating to read, because if we would have been let into Cat’s mind a little more, we could have revelled in it. But instead it feels as though we are having the story told to us and the immersion was lost. . A LOT of the worldbuilding inspiration heavily comes from the golden age of piracy to the point where names are semi-adjusted and I can pick out who characters are based on because of the light filtre. Which for some one new to the historical period, great jumping point for further research, but for someone who has devoured reading of the likes of Blackbeard and Anne Bonny and Jacquotte Delahaye it feels less like a fun easter egg and more so like - oh okay, but what are you going to _do_ with that inspiration? I wanted something deeper and more committed when it came to the people who appeared to be inspired by historical figures. . I liked that this was a romantic fantasy and not a romantasy, this leans more so on the epic scale, which is to its benefit. But, I think it could have had a much stronger plot if it had decided to lean more into that, but instead we have so many “tempest eyes” descriptions that you will be rolling your own into a tempest by the third mention. . And lastly we get to the smallest portion of the book that gave me the most grief: the epilogue, from Valerian’s POV. I did not like having Valerian’s POV show up at the end to ‘reassure’ romantic readers that he felt something for Cat. Revealing his thoughts about Cat absolutely deflated the tension which was the one good thing we had about the romance in this novel. . NO. Put that second POV back where it came from or so help me. . Once again I want to make it clear I LIKED THIS BOOK. I became so invested that I have so many feelings to rant about. This is my first Aveyard book, but if her other books just barely manage to cross the finish line . Am I invested enough to read book 2? Honestly, probably yes. I am interested in this world, invested in where these characters are goin