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How Does It Feel?

Jeneane O'Riley

3.58 AVERAGE

adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious medium-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

I’m not really sure how exactly I feel about this book. I loved the story line and was excited for the trials to be over. The MMC was kind of too forward with how the situation was going. I am very interested how her being a scientist and an assassin at the same time come together. 
I am very much hoping to see how the rest of the series goes.
adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I dnf’ed at 31%

It’s only at the 30% mark that we get to Callie being in the fae realm. And when we do get to that point… it was just a let down.

I did really enjoy the way Callie as a biologist was written. And I say that as a marine biologist. The struggles of being a young woman and being passed over because it’s expected you’ll wants a family and kids. Also how your looks and just being a woman gets you treated by the public.

Callie as a character though was just… cardboard. I get being very goal orientated, but come on even these people make an effort to have a damn social life.

Poor writing but I found the story compelling until we got to the "twist" which made no damn sense because we were in Callie's head for like 90% of the book. I have no desire to finish the series after that.
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

4*’s. 

This started out a little rocky, I genuinely couldn’t get past the moth babble. It was reading very chestnut springs, farm girl bollocks for a hot minute which just wasn’t what I was after. It took me about 6 days to get 76 pages in bc of this babble bollocks. But then it picked up and I sat down and read the rest in one day. There are so many plot holes in this thing, but I didn’t really care honestly. I was in SUCH a reading funk and this managed to drag me out of the hellhole of a slump I was in. 

Will read book two, purely bc I’m a little baffled by the ending and just need to know where it goes. 
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k_mcmurray's review

1.5
adventurous dark fast-paced

I tried... had to dnf at 42%... just awful.

Is it a literary masterpiece? Hell no. Is it a pretty good mood read with some decent spice? Hell yah. Sometimes that’s all I need and could possibly ask for.

This book! It was my first fantasy book as an adult. I am in love!!!!!!! But seriously, I NEED the second book now!!!!