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mindsorceress's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
This book missed on every single level.
The plot:
The author constantly undermined her own build up by telling me plot points and then literally in the next chapter said plot point would happen, making it lose all impact. Nothing landed because i already knew these things because the author told me in the precious chapters. This made it boring, which made it hard to get through.
The villain:
The author decided to include the villain’s point of view alongside that of the protagonists. This was a massive mistake, as she would also tell us the villain’s plans right before they would be executed. The villains plan to kidnap women from clan Keith and then, would you look at that, Isabail is alone with a group of Keith women in Vale. I wonder what’s gonna happen next??? I as the reader should not know more than the protagonist. I should be shocked alongside the protagonist, instead I am left apathetic to the situation the heroine finds herself in because i already knew it would happen. Just like i knew the grandfather was still alive because instead of keeping us thinking that clan Keith had killed the grandfather, the author tells us he was kidnapped by clan Lindsay 20 chapters ago. The final fight should have been a fight between Lor and the leader of clan Lindsay, instead it’s between Lor and the Beast, who Lor had already fought and defeated before. There are no stakes to this fight, he’s already won against him once and since he’s such a “prodigy” warrior, he’ll do so again. The main villain dies in a blink and you missed it passage, which made for a severely underwhelming conclusion to the plot.
The characters:
The characters were wooden and flat. I did not care about a single one of them and that’s bad. I should care about the Hero and heroine, I should want them to get together.
The romance:
The romance was bland and boring. It was insta-love which already has many problems on it’s own but this one was just bizarre. They had met maybe 4 times before they had concluded that they were in love with each other and had already kissed. By the time they had sex for the first time they had known each other for maybe a month give or take but had only spoken one on one a handful of times. It was devoid of any romance.
This was underwhelming. It was disappointing. This book had such good reviews which is why i had picked it up in the first place, it almost feels like we read entirely different books tbh.
The author constantly undermined her own build up by telling me plot points and then literally in the next chapter said plot point would happen, making it lose all impact. Nothing landed because i already knew these things because the author told me in the precious chapters. This made it boring, which made it hard to get through.
The villain:
The author decided to include the villain’s point of view alongside that of the protagonists. This was a massive mistake, as she would also tell us the villain’s plans right before they would be executed. The villains plan to kidnap women from clan Keith and then, would you look at that, Isabail is alone with a group of Keith women in Vale. I wonder what’s gonna happen next??? I as the reader should not know more than the protagonist. I should be shocked alongside the protagonist, instead I am left apathetic to the situation the heroine finds herself in because i already knew it would happen. Just like i knew the grandfather was still alive because instead of keeping us thinking that clan Keith had killed the grandfather, the author tells us he was kidnapped by clan Lindsay 20 chapters ago. The final fight should have been a fight between Lor and the leader of clan Lindsay, instead it’s between Lor and the Beast, who Lor had already fought and defeated before. There are no stakes to this fight, he’s already won against him once and since he’s such a “prodigy” warrior, he’ll do so again. The main villain dies in a blink and you missed it passage, which made for a severely underwhelming conclusion to the plot.
The characters:
The characters were wooden and flat. I did not care about a single one of them and that’s bad. I should care about the Hero and heroine, I should want them to get together.
The romance:
The romance was bland and boring. It was insta-love which already has many problems on it’s own but this one was just bizarre. They had met maybe 4 times before they had concluded that they were in love with each other and had already kissed. By the time they had sex for the first time they had known each other for maybe a month give or take but had only spoken one on one a handful of times. It was devoid of any romance.
This was underwhelming. It was disappointing. This book had such good reviews which is why i had picked it up in the first place, it almost feels like we read entirely different books tbh.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, Death, and Kidnapping
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