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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
LOVE THIS BOOK! It was amazing Adrian is awesome as always and Sydney is finally starting to see what an amazing guy he is. If only she didn't turn him down at the end. The entire book gave hints about Adiran and Sydney, but no. Sydney still believes they can't be together. Maybe she'll get with him in the third book.
lighthearted
reflective
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
the fact that this is the book adrian realises he is over rose is >>>
the fact he found someone who actually likes him for him and interested him as a both a romantic interest and friend is >>
the fact that he doesn’t even care that shes a human is >>>
the fact he pretends not to be able to drive stick is literally the most funniest thing just so she will teach him how to drive
i felt so bad for him
when he had to see her date that idiot .
BUT OMG THAT DANCE WHERE HE LITERALLY SAID SHE IS THE BRIGHTEST STAR OR SOMEthing or the flame to his darkness . LIKE THE FACT HE LITERALLY WANTED TO BE MORE THAN JUST HER “brother” and her friend throughout this whole book.
adrian is >>>
the fact he found someone who actually likes him for him and interested him as a both a romantic interest and friend is >>
the fact that he doesn’t even care that shes a human is >>>
the fact he pretends not to be able to drive stick is literally the most funniest thing just so she will teach him how to drive
i felt so bad for him
when he had to see her date that idiot .
BUT OMG THAT DANCE WHERE HE LITERALLY SAID SHE IS THE BRIGHTEST STAR OR SOMEthing or the flame to his darkness . LIKE THE FACT HE LITERALLY WANTED TO BE MORE THAN JUST HER “brother” and her friend throughout this whole book.
adrian is >>>
I can see why everybody loved this book: it’s full of endless love talks and love polygons, and that’s exactly why I didn’t like it. In fact, I am really disappointed.
I quite liked Bloodlines, even if not as much as VA: but it was just the first book, so the series could always get better. Unfortunately, at least for me, this didn’t happen with this second installment.
It's just that The Golden Lily has no plot: for about 300 pages the characters only complain about their love problems, and that's it; and when we glimpse a glimmer of plot it's all SO predictable. Seriously, I saw that coming from the first time vampire hunters were nominated in Bloodlines.
What really annoyed me is Sydney: I just can’t get to like her. She’s always telling everybody how clever she is, how it’s so hard for her to be around inferior people, because she can’t talk with them about windmills or thermodynamics or whathever… and yet she fails to see things that are OBVIOUS to everybody.
I liked her relationship with Adrian, I thought it was well built, but… I didn’t love them as I was expecting. I don’t know, they’re cute together, but I just can’t seem to really care about them. And about the so-called cliffhanger… honestly, it’s not really a surprise. What did you think was going to happen exactly?
And about the other characters - sorry, what other characters?? This book was basically just about Sydney and Adrian, and that’s why everybody loved it.
What about Jill? I didn’t particularly like her in Bloodlines, but she didn’t have any reason to be in this book, ‘cause she did absolutely NOTHING. The same goes, sadly, for Eddie: I’ve always loved him, and it pains me to see how he was treated here. Their only purpose was to complain about ther love problems. Why, why Richelle??
Also, something that really, really bugged me was Sydney and Adrian's attitude towards the Strigoi experiments: they want to save everybody, they want to find a solution, of course. As long as they don’t have to do anything about it: therefore, Sydney can’t be expected to do something in order to help Sonya and Dimitri if it troubles her. Why should she?
Oh, and can someone explain to me why Sonya and Dimitri had to go to Palm Spring for their research? If they only needed an objective spirit user, coudn’t they use, I don’t know, Lissa?? Of course, now they have Sydney’s blood, which is problably going to change the world, but they didn’t actually have any reason to go there in the first place.
And finally... where was Abe???
I like romance in books, I really do: but there has to be something else beside that, such as, I don't know, an actual plot.
I'm gonna keep reading this series, of course, because I have a feeling that Sydney is going to be locked up in a re-education center (and I'd really like to see that) and because it can still get better. But I have to say that I'm not looking forward to the next installments.
I quite liked Bloodlines, even if not as much as VA: but it was just the first book, so the series could always get better. Unfortunately, at least for me, this didn’t happen with this second installment.
It's just that The Golden Lily has no plot: for about 300 pages the characters only complain about their love problems, and that's it; and when we glimpse a glimmer of plot it's all SO predictable. Seriously, I saw that coming from the first time vampire hunters were nominated in Bloodlines.
What really annoyed me is Sydney: I just can’t get to like her. She’s always telling everybody how clever she is, how it’s so hard for her to be around inferior people, because she can’t talk with them about windmills or thermodynamics or whathever… and yet she fails to see things that are OBVIOUS to everybody.
Spoiler
Come on, she has to do a spell to realize that Trey is linked with vampire hunters! -.-I liked her relationship with Adrian, I thought it was well built, but… I didn’t love them as I was expecting. I don’t know, they’re cute together, but I just can’t seem to really care about them. And about the so-called cliffhanger… honestly, it’s not really a surprise. What did you think was going to happen exactly?
And about the other characters - sorry, what other characters?? This book was basically just about Sydney and Adrian, and that’s why everybody loved it.
What about Jill? I didn’t particularly like her in Bloodlines, but she didn’t have any reason to be in this book, ‘cause she did absolutely NOTHING. The same goes, sadly, for Eddie: I’ve always loved him, and it pains me to see how he was treated here. Their only purpose was to complain about ther love problems. Why, why Richelle??
Also, something that really, really bugged me was Sydney and Adrian's attitude towards the Strigoi experiments: they want to save everybody, they want to find a solution, of course. As long as they don’t have to do anything about it: therefore, Sydney can’t be expected to do something in order to help Sonya and Dimitri if it troubles her. Why should she?
Oh, and can someone explain to me why Sonya and Dimitri had to go to Palm Spring for their research? If they only needed an objective spirit user, coudn’t they use, I don’t know, Lissa?? Of course, now they have Sydney’s blood, which is problably going to change the world, but they didn’t actually have any reason to go there in the first place.
And finally... where was Abe???
I like romance in books, I really do: but there has to be something else beside that, such as, I don't know, an actual plot.
I'm gonna keep reading this series, of course, because I have a feeling that Sydney is going to be locked up in a re-education center (and I'd really like to see that) and because it can still get better. But I have to say that I'm not looking forward to the next installments.
I enjoyed this book , though it aggravated me so much . I strongly dislike Sydney in this book . And I’m highly upset that I was excited this whole time to finally get some romance and angst going on and she has the nerve to ********. .
Lmao
If indigo spell doesn’t give me some romance and angst I have no idea what im going to do. Ughhhh why does Adrian always get the short end of the stick. Why can’t they be against the world . Instead she sticking with her messed of world views . She better redeem herself in the next books .
Lmao
If indigo spell doesn’t give me some romance and angst I have no idea what im going to do. Ughhhh why does Adrian always get the short end of the stick. Why can’t they be against the world . Instead she sticking with her messed of world views . She better redeem herself in the next books .
It’s not bad, it just isn’t that great tho
- There is just nothing happening, romance is the base of this book and nothing else. Yes stuff happens with the alchemists and there is character development but most of that stuff could have happened in five chapters, but it was a whole book
- The pacing is so slow, or, like I said in my first point, romance was the base of the story so nothing else happened, and it felt like I was reading a contemporary romance and not a paranormal vampire book
- I liked seeing Sydney develop with her own ideals as she tried to stay in tune with the alchemists while staying true to herself. And I hope that later she can find some help for her eating disorder and OCD
- This shit with adults dating minors is creepy as fuck and I’m sick of pretending it doesn’t bother me. 15 year olds and 18 year olds dating is creepy. That’s it. I won’t hear otherwise. Fucking. Creepy.
- The ending was a good cliffhanger but we all know what’s gonna happen anyway so it kinda takes away the drama
- The writing is well done, the difference from rose (from vampire academy) and Sydney is clear and makes for a different experience between the books
Ok so, we come to the ⚠️spoiler⚠️ part of the review
- Dimitri really was not an essential character in this book. I expected dimitri and Adrian to have a talk and start to sort out their problems but none of that happened, so the fear of their discourse was eliminated in the first few chapters.
- Why is Sonya no longer as “crazy” as she used to be? She is suddenly sane and that is extremely inconsistent with her past character traits
- I don’t like Angelica and the random romance between her and Eddie is just weird, and once again, as is common for mead, forced to portray the sense of a forbidden romance, because now Jill is crushing on him but he is unattainable. Blah blah, same formula with the same outcome. We all know they will end up together
- Sydney is really the saving grace of this book. She is developing very well, trying to come to terms with the idea that she can’t find solace in her life as an alchemist anymore. Or that she is realising that she sometimes can’t agree with them. But my problem is that, with the noted severity of her eating disorder, she should be in hospital, or she would have almost no energy to do anything. Her hair should be falling out and she should be tired all the time. That fact that this is not addressed or shown just perpetuates the romanticising of mental illness. Though I can believe the cause of her ED I can’t see any symptoms of it. From the way she eats, she would need to gain more that five pounds as Adrian says, she should need to gain, like, 20, because the way she is said to eat, I can only see her weight as 40kilos. But this is speculation.
- There isn’t really a plot. Just a few strings that turns into a plot for a book but not a series. And I found I felt the same with the vampire academy series. I just can’t see what the next book would be about except for the forbidden romance between multiple characters
- I think that Braydon is definitely such a weird add, I think it was to show Sydney that she has a true connection with Adrian and no one else. But I think he will be shown later on as a person pushed at Sydney by the alchemists but anyway.
- The ending was good, I’m glad that Adrian and Sydney finally understand that there is mutual attraction, but, of course, and I shouldn’t complain because this is essentially what I signed up for, Sydney will use the alchemists as an excuse until the last book to “prevent” their dating. Uhh. I guess I wanted more. Vampire academy had so much more than just the romance which was such a pleasant surprise, but I’m thinking that this series won’t have that same appeal. But I geuss I’ll have to wait and see
As I said at the start, Its not a bad book, but it is definitely a filler book to just get some character development. So I can only hope the next book is better and more established.
- There is just nothing happening, romance is the base of this book and nothing else. Yes stuff happens with the alchemists and there is character development but most of that stuff could have happened in five chapters, but it was a whole book
- The pacing is so slow, or, like I said in my first point, romance was the base of the story so nothing else happened, and it felt like I was reading a contemporary romance and not a paranormal vampire book
- I liked seeing Sydney develop with her own ideals as she tried to stay in tune with the alchemists while staying true to herself. And I hope that later she can find some help for her eating disorder and OCD
- This shit with adults dating minors is creepy as fuck and I’m sick of pretending it doesn’t bother me. 15 year olds and 18 year olds dating is creepy. That’s it. I won’t hear otherwise. Fucking. Creepy.
- The ending was a good cliffhanger but we all know what’s gonna happen anyway so it kinda takes away the drama
- The writing is well done, the difference from rose (from vampire academy) and Sydney is clear and makes for a different experience between the books
Ok so, we come to the ⚠️spoiler⚠️ part of the review
- Dimitri really was not an essential character in this book. I expected dimitri and Adrian to have a talk and start to sort out their problems but none of that happened, so the fear of their discourse was eliminated in the first few chapters.
- Why is Sonya no longer as “crazy” as she used to be? She is suddenly sane and that is extremely inconsistent with her past character traits
- I don’t like Angelica and the random romance between her and Eddie is just weird, and once again, as is common for mead, forced to portray the sense of a forbidden romance, because now Jill is crushing on him but he is unattainable. Blah blah, same formula with the same outcome. We all know they will end up together
- Sydney is really the saving grace of this book. She is developing very well, trying to come to terms with the idea that she can’t find solace in her life as an alchemist anymore. Or that she is realising that she sometimes can’t agree with them. But my problem is that, with the noted severity of her eating disorder, she should be in hospital, or she would have almost no energy to do anything. Her hair should be falling out and she should be tired all the time. That fact that this is not addressed or shown just perpetuates the romanticising of mental illness. Though I can believe the cause of her ED I can’t see any symptoms of it. From the way she eats, she would need to gain more that five pounds as Adrian says, she should need to gain, like, 20, because the way she is said to eat, I can only see her weight as 40kilos. But this is speculation.
- There isn’t really a plot. Just a few strings that turns into a plot for a book but not a series. And I found I felt the same with the vampire academy series. I just can’t see what the next book would be about except for the forbidden romance between multiple characters
- I think that Braydon is definitely such a weird add, I think it was to show Sydney that she has a true connection with Adrian and no one else. But I think he will be shown later on as a person pushed at Sydney by the alchemists but anyway.
- The ending was good, I’m glad that Adrian and Sydney finally understand that there is mutual attraction, but, of course, and I shouldn’t complain because this is essentially what I signed up for, Sydney will use the alchemists as an excuse until the last book to “prevent” their dating. Uhh. I guess I wanted more. Vampire academy had so much more than just the romance which was such a pleasant surprise, but I’m thinking that this series won’t have that same appeal. But I geuss I’ll have to wait and see
As I said at the start, Its not a bad book, but it is definitely a filler book to just get some character development. So I can only hope the next book is better and more established.
This book continues to build on the best parts of book one and allows us to explore the main character as her walls begin to come down. It’s exciting and the plot arc for this sequel is very interesting and keeps you on your toes. The characters are a strong driving force for this series and you get to know them better her and become more connected to them and their relationships.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Holy dramatic irony! This book has to be one of the best examples of irony I read, since pretty much the whole book is dramatic irony, it was infuriating because I just wanted to tell Sydney to not be so stupid, but awesome at the same time. Also, Sydney has to be one of the funniest characters I've ever read. I absolutely love being in her head. The book is in first person, which makes her an unreliable narrator. Once the reader realizes this, it becomes so funny to watch her be so clueless about social cues. Awesome character creating and development with her. Seriously, just read the book because she is so funny.