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The Veiled Kingdom

Holly Renee

3.71 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I found myself cackling at the author’s commentary more than I found myself enjoying the plot. There is something missing to bring this world fully to life for me. There’s magic and then battle is sword fights, but what seems like more modern photographs. The lack of attention to detail messed with me. 
I am not sure if I will read the next book in the series. I’m not strongly compelled to. 

Good Plot, okay story telling

The premise of this book is classic Romeo and Juliet but the story is told more as a bully romance. I do not enjoy bully romance stories. Dacre is too mean and too angry. He never really shows a soft side that makes up for his trauma and Nyra falls for him anyway? I don’t like it. There are hints that he has redeeming qualities but there aren’t enough for me to enjoy the “spark” between the two main characters. I wish she had opened up to Wren a little more too.

>:(

What the fuck!!! Lmao!!!
Why on earth would you write that last scene holy fuck LMAO that’s so fucked up. Maybe don’t read this if you are concerned about traumatic (?) sex scenes. Definitely jarring.
Otherwise a fine read. World building fine. Feeling of the environment being complete fine. Continued plot points eh. Romance was fine.

I’m starting to think I don’t like romantasy, I just like SJM.
adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes