At least not as terrible as I was dreading it to be, and I was willing to give it three stars. Overall this book wasn’t all that terrible. Huh? I thought that something that warrants the title of a book should get some more page-time and be more important. She barely hears any news of the city for a hundred pages. But the moment the revolution sub-plot starts to kick off, Eve isn’t even in the City. As you can deduct from the title, in Rise we have have a revolution to overthrow the King’s regime. Ms Carey made some very weird choices when writing this book plot-wise.
That’s not how someone should feel after someone they regard as a friend dies. She feels no guilt, no connection, maybe a tad of sadness, but that’s it. Seriously, that girl must be made of stone or something. Some secondary characters drop like flies, but Eve doesn’t even bat an eye. The missing emotional connection becomes very explicit when people start dying.
It felt a bit like she was thinking “gee, those bananas are yellow” and then proceeded to go to the cinema. We are shown some kind of internal rational process to explain her actions, but for me those thoughts didn’t have a real connection with her actions. There is a lack of emotional connection with her, which is even worse when realising this is written in first person. She makes some very weird decisions in Rise that didn’t make sense to me at all. After three books I still have no idea who she is. Sadly Eve doesn’t like her fiancé as much as I liked him.Įve. At least he had some shades of grey and conflict going on, and I found his personality a lot more interesting than I found Caleb’s, who was always bland for me. I especially liked Eve’s fiancé in the City of Sands. There now are multiple interesting male characters that aren’t either good or horribly bad, finally. I’ve complained about the man-hating nature of the books before, but that was almost entirely absent in Rise. In some aspects I enjoyed Rise a lot more than Once, the second book in the series. Here she is to fulfil her final mission: kill her own father, the king. I haven’t made it a secret that me and the Eve trilogy aren’t the best of friends, and Rise made that clear yet again.Įve is stuck in the City of Sands, where she is forced to play the loving princess.
Rise is the conclusion of the Eve trilogy. Published April 2nd 2013 by HarperCollins
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