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amelianicholebooks's review
dark
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
If I could give this series 10 stars, I would. The prose is invocative, the characters are inspiring and you want them to win so badly.
suzjustsuz's review
4.0
So far this is an interesting and fairly original cultivation story with a romance that is so sweet, so subtle, and such a slow burn that it can barely be called a romance at all. It would be perfect for younger people whose parents worry about exposing them to graphic relationship descriptions and topics, as there are none here. There is a lot of awkwardness about attraction, though, and that could create empathy for a younger reader.
I thought I was reading a self contained trilogy but here at the end of book 2 and the beginning of book 3 I do not believe that the characters can progress entirely in the remaining 3rd book unless something catastrophic happens. So, without having checked further yet, I suspect this series will continue past 3.
If I have a negative at all it's that these books could use a second run through by a copy editor. It's nothing all encompassing, nothing that yanks you out of the story by the scruff of your neck. There are a lot of places where it seems perhaps a sentence originally intended to be phrased one way, but another way was chosen but the clean up of the old way didn't quite happen. They read a bit like they were published half way through the editing process. Just a bit, though, and nothing that gets in the way of the story. At least not for me.
I thought I was reading a self contained trilogy but here at the end of book 2 and the beginning of book 3 I do not believe that the characters can progress entirely in the remaining 3rd book unless something catastrophic happens. So, without having checked further yet, I suspect this series will continue past 3.
If I have a negative at all it's that these books could use a second run through by a copy editor. It's nothing all encompassing, nothing that yanks you out of the story by the scruff of your neck. There are a lot of places where it seems perhaps a sentence originally intended to be phrased one way, but another way was chosen but the clean up of the old way didn't quite happen. They read a bit like they were published half way through the editing process. Just a bit, though, and nothing that gets in the way of the story. At least not for me.
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