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A review by jenny_librarian
Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz
Did not finish book.
3.0
I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
DNF at 49%
This book is all over the place.
The magical system is so close to that famous wizard series that it sounds ridiculous, and it’s not even that necessary to the plot. The author could’ve included dragons without a magic system and it would have been much better.
The actual plot goes in all directions with the games and the Sire and who’s controlled by whom... It made my head spin.
While I applaud the inclusivity present in this book, it bothers me that the author stopped at LGBT. It’s great that you have lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rep, but there’s more to the community than those 4 orientations and it’s harmful to the rest of us when you only use the first 4 letters in the acronym. There was such good rep about everything else that I was seriously disappointed about that one.
The only reason I kept reading was Lana’s feelings about Puerto Rico and how being born in a country and raised in another can play into a person’s identity, but that ended up being a side plot swept under the rug in favour of the silly magic. The rest just didn’t hold my attention enough to keep to it.
DNF at 49%
This book is all over the place.
The magical system is so close to that famous wizard series that it sounds ridiculous, and it’s not even that necessary to the plot. The author could’ve included dragons without a magic system and it would have been much better.
The actual plot goes in all directions with the games and the Sire and who’s controlled by whom... It made my head spin.
While I applaud the inclusivity present in this book, it bothers me that the author stopped at LGBT. It’s great that you have lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rep, but there’s more to the community than those 4 orientations and it’s harmful to the rest of us when you only use the first 4 letters in the acronym. There was such good rep about everything else that I was seriously disappointed about that one.
The only reason I kept reading was Lana’s feelings about Puerto Rico and how being born in a country and raised in another can play into a person’s identity, but that ended up being a side plot swept under the rug in favour of the silly magic. The rest just didn’t hold my attention enough to keep to it.