The Jasad Heir

"I cant wait for the second book. It's been a long time since I've read something so well written. I love all the characters, it's a perfect example of show don't tell. The story is captivating, the slow burn done authentically. It had me crying in an airport. The only struggle comes with remembering what the names mean and who they pertain to but this is every fantasy worlds attribute. Highly recommend "

"I got bogged down with so much world building and so many names. This took me way longer than I liked and I really only got into this book by the last like four chapters :("

"Best book I’ve read this year."

"I know better than to trust booktok but still I succumbed. I put off on reading this because I wanted to wait for book two but ended up caving in hoping I’d be left feeling grateful. Instead I’m just done. <br/><br/>What bothered me the most was the pacing. It was so sporadic I had a hard time following from the very beginning. (What was the point of collecting frogs? I never quite understood.) Too many times I was going back and forth rereading pages because I kept thinking I missed or misunderstood something. The story also has a modern tone to it. I wasn’t expecting that and it didn’t seem genuine. <br/><br/>What kept me turning the pages was Arin. Whenever he was absent so was my interest but I enjoyed the banter until the very end (because the last scene was very cringey). <br/><br/>It’s not a bad or terribly written story. It has a few grammatical/spelling errors. Despite what I’ve mentioned, it still has a lot of potential. I am curious as to where the author will take this next."

"“His will is strong. It always is, in the self righteous. But the will of the damned is even stronger” pg 131<br/><br/>Some parts were interesting and I liked the romance pacing but the pacing of everything else was too slow and then too fast. There were also some minor plot holes that made it hard for me to visualize what the characters were doing. Like thinking someone was standing outside a carriage when they were actually inside the carriage. Interesting mythical creatures that I wish got more representation in the battles. It felt like the trials went by so quickly. However, the last 30 pages were very exciting to read and I think I might have to pick up the next book."

"4.5 stars for sure! this book was so engaging. i’m so mad the next book hasn’t been published yet!!"

"2 Stars<br/>Cover 5 Stars<br/><br/>WWTQ: How to make Throne of Glass unfun.<br/><br/>Answer: This. This book is how to make it unfun.<br/><br/>I'm hiding most of this because of spoilers. The Jasad Heir is a boring version of Throne of Glass with lots of middle eastern food references and lots of history lessons. <br/><br/>The pacing and the world-building are all over the place, and it took up so much space, leaving the character development wanting. This was just a slog to get through, but I did get through it, so that's why it's getting bumped up a star. It is compelling enough, I guess, but ultimately, it's not for me. <br/><br/><spoiler> Because the book spends so much time on history, we don't get a ton of character development. I think the intention was to feed us Sylvia's (the FMC) back story in drips and drabs, but it was a lot of repetition. <br/><br/>Sylvia isn't spunky or clever. She's a terrible person. She kills people to "survive" all the time, but really only feels bad about it if they're Jasadi, like her. She also considers herself a compassionate and kind person, which I found laughable. She's neither of those things, and apparently, nor is she self-aware. <br/><br/>Sylvia is the lost queen of a destroyed nation, Jasad. I thought her unwavering loyalty to her homeland strange. It teeters on obsession. It's all very Jacobian. She was displaced at ten, and despite what the book tells us, she really couldn't have been that consumed by State affairs as a child. Like, come on. I don't believe a child could be fluent in half dozen contemporary and ancient languages, or that she understood state politics of all her rival nations as well as her own, or that she had an understanding of the complex socio-economic structure of her country. She was 10. And now, at 20 she doesn't do anything that suggests she was some sort of prodigy or scholar. We're told she's a survivor which is a different skillset entirely. One that was cultivated by a now dead sadistic mentor who lives in her head. (The internal voice of her sadist mentor giving her survival tips throughout the novel was so distracting. I really did not like that at all.) <br/><br/>There are also a lot of things that don't make sense. <br/><br/>The cuffs for one. She has these invisible magic-dampening bracelets that she wears for reasons that aren't revealed. They keep her magic, maybe 25% of the reason she's hunted (the other being her race), hidden. Sometimes. Other times it leaps out but it's erratic and she can't control it. Sometimes she can control it. Like she can stop time by snapping her fingers at will. Then at some point, because it's convenient, they just fall off. Cool. Cool.<br/><br/>Arin, the love interest is allergic to magic. Again, sometimes. By the time they've admitted to their attraction he's immune, I guess? This one made even less sense than the fritzy bangles but OK, I'll suspend my belief, again.<br/><br/>Where I finally gave up was about 65% in, we find out Sylvia has selective amnesia. I hate the amnesia trope. It's so convenient and contrived. That at this point she's fed us at least two hundred pages of history about her country and growing up (to 10) there, and we learn that she's an observant but unreliable narrator with a revisionist history just made me want to throw the book. <br/><br/>So I skimmed the rest. The ending was predictable. Everything you expect to happen does. </spoiler><br/><br/>I will not be reading book two."