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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
To begin, I got pissed off early on by some fatphobic bullshit about someone in a larger body.
The quote goes: “Don’t let anyone tell you that all elves are tall and skinny. The man guarding the servant entrance to the castle was the opposite of that. A short, squatty man with a beaky nose and ice-blue eyes glared at me. His golden-white hair was tied into a ponytail and braided at the sides. I noticed the sword at his hip and wondered if he even knew how to use it. There was no way he was a part of the king’s royal guard. The Bow Men were known for their silent and deadly treetop assaults. This man didn’t look like he could climb a tree.”
This feels gross and unnecessary
The quote goes: “Don’t let anyone tell you that all elves are tall and skinny. The man guarding the servant entrance to the castle was the opposite of that. A short, squatty man with a beaky nose and ice-blue eyes glared at me. His golden-white hair was tied into a ponytail and braided at the sides. I noticed the sword at his hip and wondered if he even knew how to use it. There was no way he was a part of the king’s royal guard. The Bow Men were known for their silent and deadly treetop assaults. This man didn’t look like he could climb a tree.”
This feels gross and unnecessary
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
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:
Complicated
This one was alright, not as good as the others. While I did love the characters they felt a bit hollow and underdeveloped. Raife’s distance was something I understood very well, but then in the last chapter he just did a 180 and idk I think if he was part of the battle or saw Laini die that could’ve explained the 180 but instead it was just like nah mate I can’t fake this any longer. Idk it felt weird to me. Then again with all the unnecessary info dumping; best friends who we have never heard of and never will again, college information of characters who are only there for 1 chapter and never heard of again. I mean it was amusing to me because I immediately recognized it for being unnecessary pagefillers but it would have been nice to see some more developed characters.
Action packed adventure.
This series is blowing my mind! The first book with the dragon king was amazing and I didn’t think the next book would be so perfect, but WOW!! It blew me away.
This book is full of danger, action, adventure and love. This book was a nonstop adrenaline rush from the very first chapter. I could not put it down. Every page drew me into the story more and more.
Overall this series is turning into an amazing adventure full of unique and interesting characters. Each main character with a horrid past and revenge to gain. I can’t wait to read the next book as the Nightfall Queen is sure to come to a deadly end.
This series is blowing my mind! The first book with the dragon king was amazing and I didn’t think the next book would be so perfect, but WOW!! It blew me away.
This book is full of danger, action, adventure and love. This book was a nonstop adrenaline rush from the very first chapter. I could not put it down. Every page drew me into the story more and more.
Overall this series is turning into an amazing adventure full of unique and interesting characters. Each main character with a horrid past and revenge to gain. I can’t wait to read the next book as the Nightfall Queen is sure to come to a deadly end.
Have you ever enjoyed something that you *knew* wasn’t very good? That is me with this series. I found this series during a respite I took from another book that was irritating me. Which might have helped me enjoy it more than I would have coming to it at another time.
There is a DEFINITE formula from the author for this entire series. Which becomes more and more apparent as you read each book. I actually decided to wait to write my review until after I had finished the 3rd/started the 4th book. But prior to the 4th book, I actually wrapped up the other book that I was running away from, and became more considered of my reading of these upon reflection. These books are definitely worse when you think about them, so I don't recommend that, at all. Which is how this list came to be. This is for all 4 books, together. But anything I want to say specific to each individual entry will be listed below ‘the list’. (All reviews for this series should be considered rounded down to a 2.5.)
1) Each FMC has a dependent family member (or 2, in some cases) that is used against them, to make them do things they otherwise wouldn’t.
2) Each FMC is held prisoner at some point. At least once.
3) The author appears to have a complicated history with alcohol, based on the way they write about it. There is at least one odd interaction about alcohol in every book. Books 2 and 3 especially. 1 and 4 only begin to stand out when you look at the whole.
4) There are laws and/or traditions in each respective ‘country’ that severely thwart the FMC at some point. And must be changed.
5) The FMC, in EVERY SINGLE BOOK is driven by duty to the point where they do things they shouldn’t/don’t want to that are big costly things.
6) There are big injustices done to the FMC in every single book. Unforgivable things. That they forgive anyway. The worst one about this, was in #3. She literally forgives the person who wronged her before she even leaves the room. Absolutely not.
7) Each FMC either has super special/rare, unexpected magic which is extremely strong, or is an extremely strong specimen of the expected magic in their region. They are all tippy top tier of “special”.
8) Almost nobody is effectively visually described. The only real exception being the FMC from book #3.
9) Child/teenage summer camp comes up a surprising number of times.
10) The third act is literally the author making things up for why a happily ever after can’t happen and throwing them at the characters for a quarter of the book. New information things. Not things the reader is going to know about in advance. So it often just feels bad to read about at that stage.
11) If you want spice, it isn’t really in ANY of these books. Kissing + bare outlines only. Just so you know upfront. In fact, all of the books have some purity culture elements. Even the 4th one, where it feels especially at odds with that land and circumstance.
12) ¾ books have rescue missions in them (and the one that doesn’t, still has a mission section, just not a rescue). It gets to the point where you just think of it as ‘the rescue section of the book’. Very repetitive methods on the author’s part. This literally feels so repetitive by the time you make your way through the series, that the 4th iteration of it, in the final book, made me just want to skim the rest of the way. Just to wrap it up officially but not give it that much time. I was really *tired* of ‘missions’ by that point.
13) Also worth mentioning that in EVERY SINGLE BOOK IN THE SERIES there is, at a minimum, discussion of one of the two members of *the* book’s romantic couple at least talking about sleeping with other people after they have come together as a couple. Trigger warning for how far (without consent) things go for the FMC in books 3 and 4. The good spice and the bad spice are not really covered in any detail, but still a bit traumatizing for some people at just the idea of non-consensual… events.
This one had the most realistic relationship build between the FMC and MMC of all the books. But when the author calls the King "Broken" in the title... yeah, that checks out. This one might be the best one, but that cursed 'throw everything at the couple not being able to be together after all section' that happens in all the books, and goes too far in EVERY SINGLE ONE affects this book too. Seriously, how do the FMCs forgive all this stuff that is done to them?
There is a DEFINITE formula from the author for this entire series. Which becomes more and more apparent as you read each book. I actually decided to wait to write my review until after I had finished the 3rd/started the 4th book. But prior to the 4th book, I actually wrapped up the other book that I was running away from, and became more considered of my reading of these upon reflection. These books are definitely worse when you think about them, so I don't recommend that, at all. Which is how this list came to be. This is for all 4 books, together. But anything I want to say specific to each individual entry will be listed below ‘the list’. (All reviews for this series should be considered rounded down to a 2.5.)
1) Each FMC has a dependent family member (or 2, in some cases) that is used against them, to make them do things they otherwise wouldn’t.
2) Each FMC is held prisoner at some point. At least once.
3) The author appears to have a complicated history with alcohol, based on the way they write about it. There is at least one odd interaction about alcohol in every book. Books 2 and 3 especially. 1 and 4 only begin to stand out when you look at the whole.
4) There are laws and/or traditions in each respective ‘country’ that severely thwart the FMC at some point. And must be changed.
5) The FMC, in EVERY SINGLE BOOK is driven by duty to the point where they do things they shouldn’t/don’t want to that are big costly things.
6) There are big injustices done to the FMC in every single book. Unforgivable things. That they forgive anyway. The worst one about this, was in #3. She literally forgives the person who wronged her before she even leaves the room. Absolutely not.
7) Each FMC either has super special/rare, unexpected magic which is extremely strong, or is an extremely strong specimen of the expected magic in their region. They are all tippy top tier of “special”.
8) Almost nobody is effectively visually described. The only real exception being the FMC from book #3.
9) Child/teenage summer camp comes up a surprising number of times.
10) The third act is literally the author making things up for why a happily ever after can’t happen and throwing them at the characters for a quarter of the book. New information things. Not things the reader is going to know about in advance. So it often just feels bad to read about at that stage.
11) If you want spice, it isn’t really in ANY of these books. Kissing + bare outlines only. Just so you know upfront. In fact, all of the books have some purity culture elements. Even the 4th one, where it feels especially at odds with that land and circumstance.
12) ¾ books have rescue missions in them (and the one that doesn’t, still has a mission section, just not a rescue). It gets to the point where you just think of it as ‘the rescue section of the book’. Very repetitive methods on the author’s part. This literally feels so repetitive by the time you make your way through the series, that the 4th iteration of it, in the final book, made me just want to skim the rest of the way. Just to wrap it up officially but not give it that much time. I was really *tired* of ‘missions’ by that point.
13) Also worth mentioning that in EVERY SINGLE BOOK IN THE SERIES there is, at a minimum, discussion of one of the two members of *the* book’s romantic couple at least talking about sleeping with other people after they have come together as a couple. Trigger warning for how far (without consent) things go for the FMC in books 3 and 4. The good spice and the bad spice are not really covered in any detail, but still a bit traumatizing for some people at just the idea of non-consensual… events.
This one had the most realistic relationship build between the FMC and MMC of all the books. But when the author calls the King "Broken" in the title... yeah, that checks out. This one might be the best one, but that cursed 'throw everything at the couple not being able to be together after all section' that happens in all the books, and goes too far in EVERY SINGLE ONE affects this book too. Seriously, how do the FMCs forgive all this stuff that is done to them?