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zaza_bdp's review against another edition
3.0
Malheureusement je n'ai pas apprécié ce tome. Pour tout vous dire, j'avais même envie de passer rapidement à autre chose.
Pourtant sur le papier ce livre a tout pour plaire : un héros un peu rude sur les bords, une (pseudo ?) demoiselle en détresse, la mise en avant des Oubliés, le questionnement autour du protocole Silence ...
Je ne saurais pas dire comment ni pourquoi, mais je ne me suis pas attachée aux personnages, j'ai eu bien du mal à être émue par le couple principal :/ Je me suis ennuyée, et Dev et Katya n'ont pas suscité le moindre intérêt chez moi. En revanche j'ai adoré retrouver les Changelings, même si ce n'est qu'à petites touches, dans des moments-clés. Noor est vraiment adorable, j'espère qu"on retrouvera Cruz dans les tomes suivants, ainsi que Tag & Tiara.
Pourtant sur le papier ce livre a tout pour plaire : un héros un peu rude sur les bords, une (pseudo ?) demoiselle en détresse, la mise en avant des Oubliés, le questionnement autour du protocole Silence ...
Je ne saurais pas dire comment ni pourquoi, mais je ne me suis pas attachée aux personnages, j'ai eu bien du mal à être émue par le couple principal :/ Je me suis ennuyée, et Dev et Katya n'ont pas suscité le moindre intérêt chez moi. En revanche j'ai adoré retrouver les Changelings, même si ce n'est qu'à petites touches, dans des moments-clés. Noor est vraiment adorable, j'espère qu"on retrouvera Cruz dans les tomes suivants, ainsi que Tag & Tiara.
whatkireads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
sad
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
5.0
i love dev and katya
alysherry01's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
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
4.5
jfhobbit's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Torture, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore
michaela0115's review against another edition
3.0
Katya & Devraj
This was my least favorite book of the series so far. I was very bored with the storyline and Dev just wasn’t it for me. The very end was great and salvaged enough of this book for me, but I’m definitely going to have to take break/palate cleanser after this so I don’t DNF this series.
(Audiobook)
This was my least favorite book of the series so far. I was very bored with the storyline and Dev just wasn’t it for me. The very end was great and salvaged enough of this book for me, but I’m definitely going to have to take break/palate cleanser after this so I don’t DNF this series.
(Audiobook)
alisonhori's review
3.0
These books are really, really repetitive...the males are all really, really similar and so the wording and descriptors are also really, really similar from one book to the next. As romance books, they really get old...but I do still find the world created interesting and the slow crumbling of the structure still interests me. Overall, they are fun to read and fast and so long as I just ignore the way overused descriptors, I enjoy these books. I really liked Devros and his grandmother is a cool character. At this point, I am more interested in the peripheral characters than the main romance plot.
katyanaish's review
3.0
Mmmm, this one gets more of an "eh" from me. It isn't that I didn't like it, so much as it never felt as engaging as other books in the series. I wasn't sure I liked Dev. I never felt like I "got" him. And I was pretty lukewarm with Katya too. Characters with amnesia are tricky - they don't even know who they are, how do we get to know / like them?
I also was perturbed at Dev's ruthlessness towards Katya. I get that she's potentially dangerous, okay? But you can't deny the fact that this woman was also BRUTALLY victimized. Much more so than any other character we have met in this series. The treatment Brenna lived through for 7 days? Katya lived through for five months. The coldness turned me off him. Her acceptance of that treatment as her due turned me off her. I am just not into victims, nor am I into people who victimize.
And I was disappointed that we didn't get more Dorian / Ashaya. They are one of my favorite pairs, and so I had hoped we'd get more interaction with them here. But they were in about 2 scenes, and in those scenes, none of their personality came through. They could have been anyone, cardboard cutouts in the room.
And finally, though the development with the kids was interesting, the ending came out of left field, gave us zero info, and felt pretty deus ex machina to me. I don't understand what happened. Not with Katya, not with Ming, not with the Arrows, ... all in all, this book left me a little baffled.
Ah well. It really doesn't diminish my enjoyment of the overall series. Though I admit I am not looking forward to the next one... 2 characters we don't really know at all... eh. We'll see how it goes. Low expectations aren't necessarily a bad thing.
I also was perturbed at Dev's ruthlessness towards Katya. I get that she's potentially dangerous, okay? But you can't deny the fact that this woman was also BRUTALLY victimized. Much more so than any other character we have met in this series. The treatment Brenna lived through for 7 days? Katya lived through for five months. The coldness turned me off him. Her acceptance of that treatment as her due turned me off her. I am just not into victims, nor am I into people who victimize.
And I was disappointed that we didn't get more Dorian / Ashaya. They are one of my favorite pairs, and so I had hoped we'd get more interaction with them here. But they were in about 2 scenes, and in those scenes, none of their personality came through. They could have been anyone, cardboard cutouts in the room.
And finally, though the development with the kids was interesting, the ending came out of left field, gave us zero info, and felt pretty deus ex machina to me. I don't understand what happened. Not with Katya, not with Ming, not with the Arrows, ... all in all, this book left me a little baffled.
Ah well. It really doesn't diminish my enjoyment of the overall series. Though I admit I am not looking forward to the next one... 2 characters we don't really know at all... eh. We'll see how it goes. Low expectations aren't necessarily a bad thing.