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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
tense
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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed this book. The action was really good and I was able to get into the story faster than with Legendborn.
There were some really beautiful emotional moments that I really appreciated and — as with the first book — Bloodmarked does a great job at depicting grief and the many emotions that go with it.
That said, the teenager-ness of it all was frustrating and coupled with the lack of solid decision-making, it was a stressful read 🙃
There were some really beautiful emotional moments that I really appreciated and — as with the first book — Bloodmarked does a great job at depicting grief and the many emotions that go with it.
That said, the teenager-ness of it all was frustrating and coupled with the lack of solid decision-making, it was a stressful read 🙃
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Rape
adventurous
emotional
tense
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I liked this a lot more than Legendborn. Everything seemed better explained and manageable. There were still a lot of new concepts but nothing out of reach. Bree is reacting more typically to her circumstances and, maybe because of that, I feel like I understand her choices better. She seems like a person to me, not a plot device! The book got a little long winded, I still think there’s a lot that needed to be picked up from the first book to really understand what was going on so it felt a little like it was trying to make up for it’s failures. The good news is, you can pick this up whenever and still feel like you know what happened in book 1! The bad news is that the last…maybe 75 pages, give or take, was really convincing. Because of the concept of descendants, ghost possessions, talking with the dead, and just general ancestry, the last few chapters really test your knowledge of who is who, what side are they on, and I’m not EXACTLY sure if I understood who was who, but I think I got it…I THINK.
adventurous
challenging
Deonn does it again. This is truly the best YA fantasy series I’ve read in eons. The way the second book follows up the first’s themes of grief, the looking the other way at dark parts of our history, of the strength of the ancestors for descendants of the enslaved, and adds in not being beholden to the expectations of others, including those same ancestors. Hoo boy, exceptional. And I kept crying. I’m obsessed.
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
adventurous
medium-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
medium-paced