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This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede

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luosymekawa's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Caught somewhere between YA and NA, but missed the mark for both for me. The writing was strong and pacing compelling, but not enough to keep me from switching to the audiobook at 2.2x speed.

atgerstner's review

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adventurous emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

libraryofflo's review against another edition

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4.5

This took everything I liked about the first book, and magnified it into something I loved. While there were a few aspects that irritated me, just because they felt inconsistent with the rest of the book, this was an absolute joy to read, and I am planning a reread already.

The relationships in this book are just incredible, and the representation is really here, I loved that we got to see people find the people for them. I also loved how the depictions of the Gods are just like them, they are these people with all this power and have been the cause of all this destruction for so long, and yet they were just playing around.

What this book also didn’t shy away from was killing off characters, and while I won’t spoil specifics, there’s something about this that I appreciate, not in a sadistic way, but in a way that I feel the author has taken the reader seriously and the stakes that were introduced actually meant something, this is a war, not everyone will make it out.

The ending made me cry, there’s something about addressing grief and accepting it that just always gets me, and Alessa’s view of everything that just pulled on every heartstring. This also might be the first book I have read that actually ends with Happily ever after!

legallyhot's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

4.5

Lost half a star because I’d rather die than have my life saved by my boyfriend’s girl-best-friend who kissed him and tried to sabotage our relationship 🥴 being a lesbian doesn’t excuse how awful she was to Alessa and someone should’ve decked her!

air_inwood's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

frantically's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I went into this with very low expectations because I was sooo disappointed by the recent Fairyloot sequels (Foxglove, Lightbringer, Cage of Dreams) but this was fun!

It was very different from the first book with a different setting and a lot of new characters, so it feels a bit disjointed but at the heart of it we still have Alessa and Dante and they are my sweethearts 🫶🏻

There's kinda OW drama (but also not??) and either way, you know I HATE that shit ughhh 😐

The pacing was really good at first but towards the end it draggged and that's probably when it went down from 4 stars to 3 for me!

I think if I read these back to back I would've liked it more because with the long wait I honestly just forgot loads of the characters lol

Also: authors should start being brave enough to kill characters again!!

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