4.27 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hunger Games,  meets multiple book tropes with Vampires. 

This was a good read, it drew me in from the very first page. I knocked off a star due to its lack of originality. I felt the plot and characters were taken from a few other series, instead of standing on a new idea. With that being said, the author did a great job of captivating the reader with the trials. Having to watch Oraya navigate deadly trials as a human had me on the edge of my seat. Everybody in the trials had an edge over her in many ways, yet she kept fighting. I wish we could have had more of Vincent's story. He seemed to have a lot of secrets that he was keeping from Oraya. I'm hoping the second book will shed more light on that. Overall, a good book and I'm looking forward to Oraya's next move. That ending had me near tears. 
dark emotional
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Fun adventure romantasy. I'm not usually into vampire stories but this one has an interesting take. Unsure I liked the ending but it does prompt me to want to read the next book. 

World-building was great, romance was 4/5. 

4.5⭐️ I’m only deducting 0.5 star because it took me about 100 or so pages till I got super into it & was tough to fully grasp after going through an Iron Flame book hangover. But I did read this much quicker than most books and it got so much more interesting as it progressed. Super heartbreaking moments that just had me hooked and fully invested.
adventurous challenging dark tense slow-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: Complicated
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Took me a while to finish it bc I started reading #2 accidentally
so spoiled myself with Vincent’s death and he was my favourite character....


Book 1 was actually rly good

Book 2 less appealing to read now without Vincent
Oraya is getting rly annoying and if raihn says THeRe sHe iS one more time …..
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious 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

….im going to need a while to recover