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its_vendetta's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
AHHHHH!!! It's even better than the first book!! Contrary to some of the negative reviews, I thought the plot points were interesting and I understood the worldbuilding fine! I enjoyed the development of the characters and the antagonists.
I loved this duology so much. The subtle representation with Remy, the relationships between the three and how they grew throughout the books, the worldbuilding and plot, just everything was amazing!
It left me wanting to stay in the world with the characters for the next 6 months and while I'm so sad that it's over, I was very happy with the conclusion and it left me feeling very satisfied.
Overall a great duology and so underrated. I need to see more people talking about it and the lack of fanart and fandom spaces is so upsetting!! Definitely looking forward to reading the next book Rin Chupeco writes, their writing style is amazing.
I loved this duology so much. The subtle representation with Remy, the relationships between the three and how they grew throughout the books, the worldbuilding and plot, just everything was amazing!
It left me wanting to stay in the world with the characters for the next 6 months and while I'm so sad that it's over, I was very happy with the conclusion and it left me feeling very satisfied.
Overall a great duology and so underrated. I need to see more people talking about it and the lack of fanart and fandom spaces is so upsetting!! Definitely looking forward to reading the next book Rin Chupeco writes, their writing style is amazing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and War
Minor: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, and Child death
takarakei's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
I’m being generous with 3.25 stars to be honest. It pains me to say that because I loved Silver Under Nightfall so much and I’ve told so many people to read it! and I still will…but as a stand-alone
The first half of this sequel wasn’t too bad, I was enjoying the banter between Remy and Malekh a lot. It was a tad spicier (still relatively closed door or just not graphic) but we do head into kink territory! The throuple relationship truly is the one saving grace in this book. However there wasn’t a ton more development persay, and there definitely wasn’t the same tension here from the first book.
I had such a hard time following this plot. There were a lot of new characters from different vampire courts introduced, but none of them felt distinct from each other so I couldn’t keep track of who was who and where their political loyalties were. It felt like there were multiple kind of plot twists (for lack of a better word) happening and the plot got really convoluted. I love political fantasies, but this was poorly done because it moved very slow and felt like a really different world almost from the first book. Idk there was a lot of new world building which seems strange for the second book in a duology.
The action scenes, which were so fun to read in the first book, in this were sparse and very quick. Every conflict seemed to be resolved too easily (this was a bit of my critique in the first book as well, but was exacerbated here). Monsters like weren’t the focus anymore??
It also definitely could’ve been at least 100 pages shorter.
And in the end his dad and mom weren’t actually bad? Like it was that the night king was ultimately at fault? I actually don’t understand it. I guess it’s nice that Remy reconciled with his dad but it didn’t necessarily feel earned?
The first half of this sequel wasn’t too bad, I was enjoying the banter between Remy and Malekh a lot. It was a tad spicier (still relatively closed door or just not graphic) but we do head into kink territory! The throuple relationship truly is the one saving grace in this book. However there wasn’t a ton more development persay, and there definitely wasn’t the same tension here from the first book.
I had such a hard time following this plot. There were a lot of new characters from different vampire courts introduced, but none of them felt distinct from each other so I couldn’t keep track of who was who and where their political loyalties were. It felt like there were multiple kind of plot twists (for lack of a better word) happening and the plot got really convoluted. I love political fantasies, but this was poorly done because it moved very slow and felt like a really different world almost from the first book. Idk there was a lot of new world building which seems strange for the second book in a duology.
The action scenes, which were so fun to read in the first book, in this were sparse and very quick. Every conflict seemed to be resolved too easily (this was a bit of my critique in the first book as well, but was exacerbated here). Monsters like weren’t the focus anymore??
It also definitely could’ve been at least 100 pages shorter.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Violence
Moderate: Child death, Dementia, Genocide, War, Sexual content, Colonisation, and Death
Minor: Abandonment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
Toxic relationship/ sexual violence is talked about from a side characters past
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