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stormghosts's review against another edition
- 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
1.0
This book felt like it could end the series. With the next two books, book 5 being what happened when
I did enjoy the series in the beginning as I thought it was exciting and pulled me in. It was entertaining to a degree, despite the extremely cringy writing. Honestly Grace is probably the worst character and she got worse in each book. At some point it felt like the author kept making things up for the sake of it and adding in a lot of filler chapters and random characters. This book in particular felt like it had a lot of filler chapters. There are certainly loveable characters (such as Macy) and a few others but that’s it.
I’m relieved to be done with this book finally and unfortunately don’t plan on finishing the series.
Graphic: Violence, War, and Death
Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood
spiderdrac's review
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Torture, War, Death, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Cursing
Minor: Death of parent
scarlett_f's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Violence, War, and Sexual content
LGBTQ+kirahaycock21's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Cursing, and Death
Minor: Violence, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders
cady_sass's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I said in my last review (covet, #3) that the writing was getting marginally better with each book and I’d now like to formally retract that statement. Grace has become insufferable, but it’s not ALL the characters fault, it’s just bad writing. Her internal monologue is so painfully repetitive that it’s near insulting to the reader. If an editor had cut out all the rendundant content you could literally remove hundreds of pages. Having finished this book, I wish there weren’t more. I will read them, of course, but I’m not overly happy about it. I will see this through!
A few of the most heinously abused and repeated phrases in this book that I hope I never have to read again:
“My Mate” - we get it. Stop saying it every other sentence
“You’re ridiculous, you know that right?”
“Force a smile/grin that I’m far from feeling”
“Smile/grin that doesn’t reach his/her/their eyes”
“Choke back bile in the back of my throat”
“Laughs without humor”
Side note: for all the novels in this series up until this one I have switched back and forth between reading the ebook and listening to the audiobook to get through them quickly. Don’t listen to this audiobook - the narrator regularly gets the characters accents mixed up mid dialogue and it’s SO confusing. (For example: They’ll say something in Hudson’s voice that Hudson did NOT say, and I’d have to go back to the book to figure out what actually happened in conversation). There’s also continuity issues with pronunciation that is not earth shattering but bothered me to no end (for example, Mehki’s name is suddenly pronounced entirely differently in this book versus the first 3). I had to stop listening and just trudge thru this one the old fashioned way, this perhaps lent to me being more triggered by the writing 🤣
Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Mental illness, Vomit, Torture, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Cursing, Abandonment, Classism, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, War, Kidnapping, and Sexual content
cait's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, War, and Child death
novelsistah's review
- 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
4.0
The ending was amazing!
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Violence
kbairbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Violence, War, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Child abuse