-first book of 'Der Graue Orden'
Author:
Arthur Philipp
Published:
2017
Genre:
Fantasy, YA, novel
571 pages [German edition]
I was sent this book as a reviewer’s copy some weeks
ago, so thanks a lot to the ‘Randomhouse’-team. :D
! Warning: This is a German book and it isn’t translated into any other languages [yet] !
Maybe *hopefully* you are interested in hearing something about it anyways.
I actually decided to read this book because of its
lovely cover and not because of its content at first. xD
So, hopefully after reading this review you will be
able to rate ‘Die Dunkelmagierin’ on basis of more important criteria. [like
its content for example xDDD]
So, let’s start with this review, I hope you’ll enjoy
it. :D
Content
At the beginning of the book the reader gets to know a
girl named Feja.
She is on her way to Braake, a big seaport, where she
hopes to meet her father.
Her father is nowhere to be found and instead, the
girl meets a man who is a mage.
Soon this mage finds out that Feja also has an amazing
talent for conjuring.
Because of that the girl becomes a member of the mans
order, the ‘grey mages’.
Before she can really get used to her new and better
life, bad things begin to happen. Feja is told that she is more powerful than
any of the other mages and that she can prevent the dark future which awaits
humanity from happening.
But is the path of twilight and crepuscule her masters
propose really the only way to do so? Who can she even trust? Or is it true
that her fate is already settled and that she will bring death over mankind no
matter what?
Review
Sooo, this review is a bit ‘special’…
I didn’t enjoy reading the first 500 pages of this
book; but the last seventy pages actually were pretty good. Because of that I
also want to ‘divide’ this review into two parts. :D
PAGES 1-500
So, where do I begin here?
Firstly, I didn’t really like Feja.
She is very stubborn, she never really thinks through
the things she is doing and she is influenced by others a lot without realizing
it. The reader however knows her being tricked the entire time and that’s why
this is even more annoying.
Sometimes I literally was screaming at my book that
she shouldn’t be doing what she was about to
Not liking a books / series’ main character always is
a bad thing because that character is the most important one and that’s why it
appears in nearly every single chapter / episode… :o
Secondly, there is a romance between Feja and one of
the order’s brothers which I find very annoying.
This relationship came out of nowhere and there is no
explanation for it. In one moment the reader doesn’t really know that she has
feelings for him and in the next moment the two of them are already making out.
For my liking the romance should have been explained
more or it should have been omitted completely.
PAGES 500-579
During these pages Feja begins to change.
I don’t want to reveal too much, but at least some of
her negative characteristics vanish. :D
In addition to that there is a lot of action during
these pages.
I can’t really say that the rest of the book was
boring, or that nothing happened… BUT
I think that earlier the ‘wrong’ things were described
too detailed and the things I would have been interested in hearing more about
[like Fejas actual training to becoming a mage] were described too shortly.
I don’t want to pretend that everything was perfect in
this second part of the book, because it wasn’t.
There was a fight between two mages which I personally
found very unrealistic, predictable and not as big as it would have been
appropriated…
I also didn’t really like
GENERAL
The author’s writing style is okay.
It’s not outstandingly good but it also isn’t bad.
A thing which made reading this book a bit more
complicated for me are the tons of new magic-words AND the tons of
extraordinary names the reader has to remember.
Now that I have finished the book I know most of the
names but while reading it I was veeeeeery confused and I didn’t know what was
going on very often. xD
Another thing which made reading ‘Die Dunkelmagierin’
harder for me was the layout. The chapters are too long for my liking.
Some of the bigger paragraphs in between the chapters
should have been the beginning of a new one in my opinion.
To sum up I have to say that this book displays many
defects, BUT IF the second book is as good as the end of this one it is worth
reading anyways…
…so to finally rate this book I have to await reading
the next one. :D
My Recommendation
To being able to give you a perfect recommendation
whether to read or not to read this book I also have to wait until I have read
the next one…
I would recommend you to wait with buying this book
until I have read [and reviewed] the second one too.
Just pick another book of your ‘to be read’-list and
read it first. :D
Soooo, as always.
Thanks for reading my review.
Let me know if you agree or disagree with me.
Hugs,
Leonie
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