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the_bookbasket's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
hungryrye's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
courteneynoonan's review
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
applemartini2022's review
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
vworley97's review against another edition
5.0
This was the perfect third book! Halle did such a good job of weaving in romance with the conflicts in the beautiful world she built. The couple isn't perfect, but they're real and relatable, which makes it even better. Can't wait for the next book!
joanareads_29's review
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
thewordslinger's review against another edition
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Release dates got pushed back and pushed back and after ALL THAT WAITING.... <i>this</i> bullshit is what we get? Really? This book is ENTIRELY unnecessary. It's a tie-over that did not at all need to exist. It's just Death and Hanna gallivanting around in the Upper World instead of dealing with the shit going on in hell.
Fuck off.
I was going to go into a long rant about this book. But I'm just over this entire series. This book pissed me off.
TL;DR - Why the fuck was this book written?
It's only like 250 pages long.
Has zero substance.
Nothing new is added to the plot line.
The characters still suck.
I give all the way up.
Leaving my chapter notes below if anybody needs more clarification about how idiotic and unnecessary this book is.
Chapter 1: Oh good god. Why are we getting Lovia's (and later Tuonen's) POVs? Eugh. That whole scene with Ethel read like something I might have written as a creative writing assignment in high school. It was very juvenile.
Chapter 2: Annnnd instead of trying to escape, we're having sex. Sure. Go ahead. Why not.
This sex scene was honestly almost unbearable. It went on forever and a day. Girl's 4 orgasms deep before he even gets his dick wet. And the way it's written... I dunno. It genuinely felt like Ms. Halle was out of practice. It wasn't hot, but cringy.
Chapter 4: <b>The shock of seeing her made me forget that she's here at all -- where my father and Hanna are -- and nothing good can come of that.</b>
If you forgot, how is it you're telling us? Sentences like this shouldn't exist in a 1st person narrative.
How is it Lovia isn't even in the arena or wherever the fuck and can sense her father's death but Tuonen's literally in the same location and doesn't feel it?
Chapter 5: How DID Raila know where Tuoni and Hanna were and how did she know how to get them out of the cell they themselves couldn't open?
Chapter 8: God it's just pop culture reference after reference after reference. And now not only is Hanna doing it, but Tuoni too. It makes this writing sound so god-awfully juvenile. Like it's trying waaaaaay too hard to be funny and relevant.
And I am <i>not</i> amused by this whole Death being all out of touch with the upper world shtick. It's so stupidly cliche. PLEASE tell me their little jaunt about the Upper world isn't the entire plot of this book because I may vomit.
Like you mean to tell me Tuoni doesn't know what gum is? That he can't tell it from a KEY? Does he not have keys in Hell? Dude watches human movies, is obsessed with Coffee...but doesn't know what a stick of gum looks like and doesn't know it's not food????
Sorry, I'm skimming over this bullshit until the plot becomes relevant again.
Chapter 12: Why is Hanna so worried about what her (fake) mom will think about her being dead/missing? Like it was clear in previous books that the woman barely acknowledges her as it is, and that she didn't really like her. So???
<b>He probably feels just as unmoored as I do, yet I don't think he's too concerned about not getting back to Tuonela.</b>
Uh. Like that needs to be both of your top priorities, right? Surely both know Louhi's up to some shit--some <i>universe ending</i> shit--and Death's not concerned about that????
Chapter 13: Is it a bad time to remind the audience that Tuoni STILL hasn't told Hanna he loves her? Hasn't even admitted it to himself? In fact, short of a few moments here and there of him "caring about her", it's not even clear to the reader that he does yet. So....
Chapter 16: I should be living for Tuonen's chapters at this point since this is where the plot is actually happening, but the other half of this story has me so brain-dead I simply do not care anymore.
Chapter 17: I haven't said anything up to this point but there are a LOT of errors in this book. Words missing, sentences that don't make any sense, Extra words that should have been edited out...just ran across "andhe" which I THINK was supposed to say "the". You'd think after all the delays getting this shit published somebody would have edited it.
Chapter 20: Where have Noori and Eero been for the past year? Just hiding out in a cave somewhere waiting for Torben to show up again?
Also what happened to Rasmus? We've not seen or heard from him at all since his mom took him away. Now supposedly he's her weapon? How does anybody KNOW that?
Chapter 21: Well, I guess no we know were Rasmus is. Hurray. His story still doesn't make any sense. What did Louhi do to him that turned him evil? Or DID she corrupt him at all? Was he evil before? The world may never know.
Chapter 24: Nothing like waiting until the second to last chapter to bring Hanna's mother to the party. AND WE STILL DON'T GET TO SEE THAT MEETING. We got left on a cliffhanger in book 2 with the reveal that Hanna was Daughter of the Sun God, and throughout this ENTIRE book that fact is fucking ignored. Her powers are nonexistent, nobody mentions trying to get the two ladies in touch.
Only to get the ominous "Your mother is here." END FUCKING CHAPTER.
Whatever. I don't even fucking care anymore.
Chapter 25: The human army idea is dumb. You mean to tell me that 200k Finnish soldiers just disappearing wouldn't cause the Finnish government (and indeed, the whole fucking WORLD) to freak the hell out? C'mon now.
Fuck off.
I was going to go into a long rant about this book. But I'm just over this entire series. This book pissed me off.
TL;DR - Why the fuck was this book written?
It's only like 250 pages long.
Has zero substance.
Nothing new is added to the plot line.
The characters still suck.
I give all the way up.
Leaving my chapter notes below if anybody needs more clarification about how idiotic and unnecessary this book is.
Chapter 2: Annnnd instead of trying to escape, we're having sex. Sure. Go ahead. Why not.
This sex scene was honestly almost unbearable. It went on forever and a day. Girl's 4 orgasms deep before he even gets his dick wet. And the way it's written... I dunno. It genuinely felt like Ms. Halle was out of practice. It wasn't hot, but cringy.
Chapter 4: <b>The shock of seeing her made me forget that she's here at all -- where my father and Hanna are -- and nothing good can come of that.</b>
If you forgot, how is it you're telling us? Sentences like this shouldn't exist in a 1st person narrative.
How is it Lovia isn't even in the arena or wherever the fuck and can sense her father's death but Tuonen's literally in the same location and doesn't feel it?
Chapter 5: How DID Raila know where Tuoni and Hanna were and how did she know how to get them out of the cell they themselves couldn't open?
Chapter 8: God it's just pop culture reference after reference after reference. And now not only is Hanna doing it, but Tuoni too. It makes this writing sound so god-awfully juvenile. Like it's trying waaaaaay too hard to be funny and relevant.
And I am <i>not</i> amused by this whole Death being all out of touch with the upper world shtick. It's so stupidly cliche. PLEASE tell me their little jaunt about the Upper world isn't the entire plot of this book because I may vomit.
Like you mean to tell me Tuoni doesn't know what gum is? That he can't tell it from a KEY? Does he not have keys in Hell? Dude watches human movies, is obsessed with Coffee...but doesn't know what a stick of gum looks like and doesn't know it's not food????
Sorry, I'm skimming over this bullshit until the plot becomes relevant again.
Chapter 12: Why is Hanna so worried about what her (fake) mom will think about her being dead/missing? Like it was clear in previous books that the woman barely acknowledges her as it is, and that she didn't really like her. So???
<b>He probably feels just as unmoored as I do, yet I don't think he's too concerned about not getting back to Tuonela.</b>
Uh. Like that needs to be both of your top priorities, right? Surely both know Louhi's up to some shit--some <i>universe ending</i> shit--and Death's not concerned about that????
Chapter 13: Is it a bad time to remind the audience that Tuoni STILL hasn't told Hanna he loves her? Hasn't even admitted it to himself? In fact, short of a few moments here and there of him "caring about her", it's not even clear to the reader that he does yet. So....
Chapter 16: I should be living for Tuonen's chapters at this point since this is where the plot is actually happening, but the other half of this story has me so brain-dead I simply do not care anymore.
Chapter 17: I haven't said anything up to this point but there are a LOT of errors in this book. Words missing, sentences that don't make any sense, Extra words that should have been edited out...just ran across "andhe" which I THINK was supposed to say "the". You'd think after all the delays getting this shit published somebody would have edited it.
Chapter 20: Where have Noori and Eero been for the past year? Just hiding out in a cave somewhere waiting for Torben to show up again?
Also what happened to Rasmus? We've not seen or heard from him at all since his mom took him away. Now supposedly he's her weapon? How does anybody KNOW that?
Chapter 21: Well, I guess no we know were Rasmus is. Hurray. His story still doesn't make any sense. What did Louhi do to him that turned him evil? Or DID she corrupt him at all? Was he evil before? The world may never know.
Chapter 24: Nothing like waiting until the second to last chapter to bring Hanna's mother to the party. AND WE STILL DON'T GET TO SEE THAT MEETING. We got left on a cliffhanger in book 2 with the reveal that Hanna was Daughter of the Sun God, and throughout this ENTIRE book that fact is fucking ignored. Her powers are nonexistent, nobody mentions trying to get the two ladies in touch.
Only to get the ominous "Your mother is here." END FUCKING CHAPTER.
Whatever. I don't even fucking care anymore.
Chapter 25: The human army idea is dumb. You mean to tell me that 200k Finnish soldiers just disappearing wouldn't cause the Finnish government (and indeed, the whole fucking WORLD) to freak the hell out? C'mon now.
becksgoesbookish's review against another edition
4.0
3.5⭐️ Hannah & Daddy Death are back! One of my favorite things about this series is that I never have any clue what is going to happen next in the story. I also really loved the recap we got of what happened in books 1&2 at the start of this book and wish more series did this!
In this book we get back to the humorous writing style of book 1, with Karina’s hallmark effervescent writing style. This book is on the shorter end and I’m not really sure we needed this series to be four books, but it’s still a really fun & engaging to read storyline and I’m curious to see what happens in the grand finale!
*I received an arc copy of this book. All opinions are my own*
In this book we get back to the humorous writing style of book 1, with Karina’s hallmark effervescent writing style. This book is on the shorter end and I’m not really sure we needed this series to be four books, but it’s still a really fun & engaging to read storyline and I’m curious to see what happens in the grand finale!
*I received an arc copy of this book. All opinions are my own*
darling_book_mage's review
adventurous
funny
informative
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Well that was cliffy…
Full review to come.
Full review to come.