381 reviews for:

Vicious Bonds

Shanora Williams

3.91 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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
mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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DID NOT FINISH: 12%

I just didn’t get pulled in
adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

I really wanted to like this book but the inconsistencies with language and weird modernized but not world just didn't make sense to me. The world building was nice. The dialogue felt like a whole lot of telling me how the feel but not showing me. Like the random "ive seen the way he looks at you" and "she reads me so easily" but i can't pin point any actions or scenes add to that. 
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

i genuinely don’t even know how i feel about this book.. the writing really threw me for a loop bc some parts were so well written and intriguing while other parts left me wondering what the author was thinking. it honestly just felt very unpolished and at some times rushed, but i can’t deny i’m still very curious about caz and how this is going to play out so i’m going to continue.

oh and i feel i just have to say this.. the smut was honestly better left as closed door bc it genuinely made me cringe multiple times. (i unfortunately had that feeling fairly early on when the mmc “mounted” the fmc as if they aren’t just people and not animals/monsters) all the descriptors just made me recoil..
adventurous dark medium-paced
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark funny

Okay sooo… this was entertaining, messy, and chaotic—in the best way. It mostly felt like a 3.25–3.5 read until that ending. That last section? Yeah, it did something.

I still don’t fully get the whole “darkie” thing or why it mattered plot-wise. The race system was interesting but kinda confusing—I wanted more clarity without feeling like info was just being dumped. It’s a trilogy, though, so maybe it’ll unravel better later.

What’s gonna keep me going? The backstory. The mystery. Her mystery. Their mystery. I’m definitely curious enough to keep going.



adventurous fast-paced