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Blood & Steel

Helen Scheuerer

4.14 AVERAGE


WOOF this BOOK! Call it my new obsession. Beyond happy there are more in the series for me to immediately devour 🤤 Loved literally everything about this book. Thea was fierce but lovable, love her friends and humor and internal compass. Also love Wilder. Hot and sweet and all the things. The ending was great. Again, can’t think of any reason not to love this book. 
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes

I really enjoyed this book. I absolutely love these characters and getting to know more about side characters in the sequel series. I still can’t wait to see where the rest of this series goes. I kinda wish I started with this series instead of the prequel. I feel like I’d be more invested since I already know the end game of everything. But obviously there are a lot of specifics I don’t know. 

I fear I am going to have to dnf this book.. I’m sorry but the writing style is kinda cringing me out, and I wish there were more descriptions of the actions going on this book, not so much the author telling you what is going on. 

kmg589's review

3.5
adventurous funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A remix of Protector of the Small and Fourth Wing. You can see the tropes as they're coming but the plot moves quickly. Not really a romance - the characters are just automatically attracted to each other. Not interesting enough to pick up the next book in the series. The dog lives.  

kaelankiernan's review

3.25
adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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breezy10's review

4.5
adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
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sqdreads's review

4.0
adventurous slow-paced

I enjoyed it! Great writing and loved the battle/fight scenes. Will def continue. I’m really interested to see where this is going!
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bluepebble's review


I wasn't enjoying the writing style. Perhaps by the ending of this book or in subsequent books this world makes more sense, but as it stands, I don't understand neither the workings of the world, nor the stakes. Finally, the main female character sounded to young for age and experience, making hard to follow the story through her.