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marycage's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Blood, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and War
lamianoctalis's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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? It's complicated
4.5
Ich liebe die Verbindung, die sich zwischen Grace und Hudson aufgebaut hat und bin froh, dass sich alles rund um Jaxon entspannt hat. Es ist wirklich faszinierend immer weiter in diese magische Welt einzutauchen und von ihren Regeln zu lernen. Auf de Weg wurden viele Leben verloren und viele Freundschaften geknüpft. Ich bin gespannt, wie sich gewisse Beziehungen weiter entwickeln und wie es im folgenden Band weitergeht, nach der Eröffnung am Ende.
Ich frage mich, was sich zwischen Jaxon und Flint entwickeln wird, wie Mekhi. Gerettet wird, in wiefern Eden und Graces menschliche Freundin zueinander finden, ist Macy komplett raus aus dem Liebesspiel? Wie wird mit Hudsons Fähigkeiten verfahren? Wer ist neuer Vampirregent? Gibt es einen Wechsel der Vertreter der Drachen?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Sexual content
Minor: Infidelity and Confinement
stormghosts's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
slow-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
1.0
This is probably the worst book in the series. It was way too long and a lot of parts of the story for this book kept getting dragged out. I started this in October 2023 and it’s taken me 5 months to finish. It feels like deep down I didn’t want to finish it as I lost interest. But finished it anyway.
This book felt like it could end the series. With the next two books, book 5 being what happened whenGrace and Hudson were trapped together at the finale of Crave with the missing time of months , I have no interest in reading it as I simply don’t care anymore. I read a synopsis for the final book 6 and it feels like it’s not even necessary and I have no idea why it was written. I have a feeling it will just be more of the story dragged out for no reason.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, War, and Death
Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood
beccaperson's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
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? It's complicated
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Death of parent
spiderdrac's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, War, Death, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Cursing
Minor: Death of parent
scarlett_f's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
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
Content Warnings
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+cor_luz's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
fast-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
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and War
kirahaycock21's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- 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
I think this was my least favorite book in the series (but still SUCH a great book.) It took a long time to get into the meat of the book and it dragged in the middle, but I loved the story and how it fit into the other books.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Cursing, and Death
Minor: Violence, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders
toastyghosty13's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
you know the saying “look in the mirror before you head out the door and take off 1 accessory”? this book desperately needed that. i feel like about 30%-40% of this could have been cut down or cut out. this book was unnecessarily long, and it felt like a lot of things happened for the sake of shock and to cycle in new characters.
i wish that there was less of the “this is my mate, how am i sooooo lucky” and “i am so lucky to have such amazing friends, and i need to be courageous for them” type of inner monologues that we saw from grace. it was overkill and unbearably cheesy.
i think the plot line of the quest type missions they had to go on was kind of cool, but they also seemed meaningless like they had never existed before and only existed to serve the necessity of some sort of adventure mission to find an object of significance that could solve some overarching problem. the pattern is feeling repetitive through each of the books.
i do really like some of the characters, like flint, remy, calder, and macy. they have grown a lot and contribute so much to the plot and conflicts in this book. i used to love grace but she’s annoying the hell out of me now, even hudson is getting too sappy for me. i miss the days of this series being some petty high school dramatics between paranormals; it has very much lurched into “we’re the underdogs and have to save the world despite all odds against us” which is totally bs when when they also consider themselves some of the most powerful paranormals in existence.
there are also a lot of points where a solution to a problem is glaringly obvious and yet the “super smart” grace can’t see what’s basically hitting her with a billboard. conversely, there are times where grace encounters a problem and then thinks up a solution that is a complete reach and yet it magically works out.
TLDR; this is the first book of the series i’ve disliked a majority of. it was way too long and way too cheesy, could have cut down 40% of it probably. i powered through it because i think the next 2 books will be a lot better, and because i did enjoy the books leading up to this book.
i wish that there was less of the “this is my mate, how am i sooooo lucky” and “i am so lucky to have such amazing friends, and i need to be courageous for them” type of inner monologues that we saw from grace. it was overkill and unbearably cheesy.
i think the plot line of the quest type missions they had to go on was kind of cool, but they also seemed meaningless like they had never existed before and only existed to serve the necessity of some sort of adventure mission to find an object of significance that could solve some overarching problem. the pattern is feeling repetitive through each of the books.
i do really like some of the characters, like flint, remy, calder, and macy. they have grown a lot and contribute so much to the plot and conflicts in this book. i used to love grace but she’s annoying the hell out of me now, even hudson is getting too sappy for me. i miss the days of this series being some petty high school dramatics between paranormals; it has very much lurched into “we’re the underdogs and have to save the world despite all odds against us” which is totally bs when when they also consider themselves some of the most powerful paranormals in existence.
there are also a lot of points where a solution to a problem is glaringly obvious and yet the “super smart” grace can’t see what’s basically hitting her with a billboard. conversely, there are times where grace encounters a problem and then thinks up a solution that is a complete reach and yet it magically works out.
TLDR; this is the first book of the series i’ve disliked a majority of. it was way too long and way too cheesy, could have cut down 40% of it probably. i powered through it because i think the next 2 books will be a lot better, and because i did enjoy the books leading up to this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, War, and Child abuse
Moderate: Blood and Death of parent
discoverelysian's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
4.0
EPIC.
loved the Impossible Trial. loved the way the argue and fight and make up because that’s what friends do. loved Eden’s attitude in dealing with Grace. loved the stunt the gargoyles put at the end.
loved the Impossible Trial. loved the way the argue and fight and make up because that’s what friends do. loved Eden’s attitude in dealing with Grace. loved the stunt the gargoyles put at the end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, War, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death
Moderate: Death of parent and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Misogyny