Reviews - We Unleash the Merciless Storm

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We Unleash the Merciless Storm

Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.79 AVERAGE

professorbadger's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

I greatly enjoyed the first book of this series and was looking forward to continuing the series. Sadly, this one fell flat for me. Still enjoy the main relationship and am impressed by the world-building, but this second book spent too much time in the main character’s thoughts and too little just diving in to the action. Still, I’m attached enough to the series that I’ll seek out book 3 when the time comes.

honeyreads1066's review against another edition

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: No

I didn't think this book could be as good as the last one and it wasn't but I still really enjoyed it.

This book changes the focus to follow Carmen instead of Dani which because of the way the last book ended I wasn't too keen on but I got used to it eventually. I like that we get to see the relationships that Carmen developed and also the way she felt about Dani. I'm kind of upset that this didn't have the same political stuff as the first one, I really enjoyed the sneaking around and trying to figure out certain things and this one was a lot more action.

I also didn't like that a few of the big twists at the end were really predictable and not in a satisfying way. I hoped that some things would come out of nowhere or there would be a massive curveball but nothing hit the way that some of the twists did in the first book.

I think overall this was an okay conclusion to the duology but because I loved the first one so much, with the change in story style and perspective, inevitably, I was never going to like the second one as much.

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