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These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

19 reviews

garbutch's review

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adventurous

Diverse cast of characters? No

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kiwij96's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

ACOTAR meets The Cruel Prince, only better. The storytelling was honestly genius and the cliffhanger is stunning, I need the second book immediately.

There were a couple of times where I was confused by things that seemingly made no sense, or felt too rushed, but other than that this story is so well done. I was hooked immediately with the Cinderella style beginning. But then it just became something else entirely. I was honestly stunned at some of the twists that happened.

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toastedoats42's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

An interesting story and I'm excited to read the sequel. The author uses male and female instead of man and woman in most instances which, despite understanding the reasoning behind it given the story, still gives me an ick.

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viselik's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

At first, I just thought this book was boring and predictable but then it just started to get worse and worse. The book only gets good in the last 30-ish %, but I still had numerous issues with this book.

Please look up content warnings for this book, it deals with some pretty dark topics and the version I had did not have any content warnings in it.

1) There is no content warning and this NEEDED to have one.

There is a fucking
concentration camp
in it and there was no warning about it before we find out about it. We find out about it in Chapter 15.
Emotional manipulation is a super big thing in this book, there is no warning about that.
- Like the entire character of Ronan/Sebastian should have had a content warning

The whole plot twist about Sebastian actually being the prince is just so bloody predictable if you have read romances before. He's written like a love interest for crying out loud.

Once we learned that Prince Ronan was missing I instantly knew that Sebastian was Ronan. It was too obvious to me after we had it stated that Sebastian was going away the night after the first day of the ball.

3) The naming system of this world. Characters and the land.

We had the Seelie lands, the Unseelie lands and the Wild Fae lands... This just felt too basic for me.
Then there are the characters.
Let's start with the main character's nickname, Brie. That is a cheese, a rather smelly cheese. I may or may not have just started calling her cheese girl.
The two love interests! We have Ronan/Sebastian and... Finnian. I was left slightly disappointed by these.
- Finnian's uncle is called Mordred or something like that and his father was called Oberon. I expected more considering the name of the people around them.

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justagrlandherdog's review

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adventurous hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It was a slow start definitely but once you meet Finn it starts to pick up. While it wasn’t a complete stand out to me (twists seemed predictable) I enjoyed reading it. It’s not ACOTAR so don’t go into this book thinking that it will be but if you can get past trying to compare the two this is a good book. And Finn does give off some Rhys vibes.

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niatella's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The cover of this book motivated me to start reading it, but because I went in with such a high anticipation and expectation, I felt slightly let down when it wasn't the case.

Regardless, the book does get exciting towards the end and it is then that you start to get addicted to the story.

It is moderately-paced and some of the plots twists are pretty predictable.

THOUGH I GOTTA SAY, the betrayals tho. Can't trust nobody fr.

Gave it an overall 4/5 bc the plot is still interesting and not so slowly-paced that I become totally bored of it so it's fine. Writing style is good too.

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cady_sass's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Okay hear me out: I know, objectively, this is not very good. The writing is very lackluster and repetitive and the book as a whole lacked editing. BUT if you have a fairy world fantasy itch that can’t seem to get scratched, this will do it. I really enjoyed this, despite the predicability and eye-roll worthy protagonist. It’s fun! So sue me. You get exactly what you expect, in my humble opinion.
Side note: there are a lot ( a LOT ) of reviews calling this an ACOTAR rip off and, while there are some minor similarities, I don’t feel that way at all. Sorry not sorry.

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