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adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
If you don't like mentions of height you will be annoyed and they mention eye color every 5 seconds
Its litetally just a personal ick for me but the whole he's so big and tall and she's so slender and small thing just gives me the ick now it makes me think he sees her as a child also I get it his eyes are blue and her hair is auburn brown you don't need to remind me every 5 pages
Its litetally just a personal ick for me but the whole he's so big and tall and she's so slender and small thing just gives me the ick now it makes me think he sees her as a child also I get it his eyes are blue and her hair is auburn brown you don't need to remind me every 5 pages
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Blood, Abandonment, War
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: War
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is a romantacy book about two shoulders from waring lands. He has shadow powers and she has light powers, they could each be the other’s downfall. But for some reason they can’t convince themselves to cast the death blow. And then they realize they need each other, but can they truly trust each other.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Abandonment
adventurous
slow-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:
Yes
I didn't know going into this that it was a Reylo fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, but I figured it out about 50 pages in. There were a few issues I think were caused in part by it originally being a fanfic. First, the characters were underdeveloped in the beginning, and I didn't quite buy that they were really enemies. They were truly enemies because they were on opposite sides of a war, but I would have liked for there to be a more personal element to it. Maybe one or both of them could have personally killed someone the other one loved or he could have been responsible for destroying her village, or something like that. In a fanfiction, we have this backstory already because it's in the source material, but since these are new characters, we don't know what they've done to really cause them to hate each other.
The magic system also wasn't very well developed. The shadow magic and the light magic didn't do anything different from each other. They both just formed weapons that did the same things but in different colors. I chalk this up to this being adapted from Star Wars fanfiction where the characters originally probably used the same source of power (the Force) and the same type of weapon (lightsabers).
The pacing was off. It took almost 200 pages for the main characters to actually have a conversation and interact beyond a few fight scenes. It was so weird to have a romance book where the couple hardly interacts for the first half of the book. Once the romance got started, I did enjoy how it developed. I was put off a bit by the insta-lust. The characters would be in the middle of trying to kill each other and then they'd be thinking about how the other one's eyes are so beautiful. Despite the insta-lust, I'd say the romance itself is a slow burn. They started getting to some good character development towards the end as they began to really explore the differences in their ideologies and the conflict that causes in their relationship.
Overall, I enjoyed this well enough, and it definitely picked up towards the end. I'm not sure if I'll read the next book in the series as I'm not super invested in the plot or characters though.
The magic system also wasn't very well developed. The shadow magic and the light magic didn't do anything different from each other. They both just formed weapons that did the same things but in different colors. I chalk this up to this being adapted from Star Wars fanfiction where the characters originally probably used the same source of power (the Force) and the same type of weapon (lightsabers).
The pacing was off. It took almost 200 pages for the main characters to actually have a conversation and interact beyond a few fight scenes. It was so weird to have a romance book where the couple hardly interacts for the first half of the book. Once the romance got started, I did enjoy how it developed. I was put off a bit by the insta-lust. The characters would be in the middle of trying to kill each other and then they'd be thinking about how the other one's eyes are so beautiful. Despite the insta-lust, I'd say the romance itself is a slow burn. They started getting to some good character development towards the end as they began to really explore the differences in their ideologies and the conflict that causes in their relationship.
Overall, I enjoyed this well enough, and it definitely picked up towards the end. I'm not sure if I'll read the next book in the series as I'm not super invested in the plot or characters though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Abandonment, Colonisation, War
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent
adventurous
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:
Yes
Good! One 🌶️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, War
Moderate: Death
Minor: Sexual content
adventurous
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, War
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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
Second read:
Infinity stars still. ♾️
Is there any way I will ever get over this book? No! Absolutely not!
There’s just something about this book that really like gets to me? Makes me feel things? And just is so great.
I’ve seen quite a bit of reviews where people feel as if the beginning is rough to get through, but I surprisingly did not have that issue??? Maybe I was just reading and not comprehending but NO I think it was easy for me to get through.
Maybe because I was reading it with the hardcover along with the audiobook? (10/10 recommend this method btw)
Idk, but this book just makes me so full. It fills a part of my heart that felt empty before.
First and foremost, this is about war and death and all things vile. It’s easy to see that Kesath is the enemy and the Night Empire is bad. They are wiping everyone out and that’s that.
Nenavar is like the youngest child, not wanting to get involved in the affairs of the oldest and middle child fights, in my opinion. Switzerland if that’s a better comparison.
This book deals with some heavy topics, but also has some romance interlaced in it as well, which I enjoyed.
It’s the sort of romance that rips your heart out and makes you want to sob, but romance all the same.
The relationship between Talasyn and Alaric is very strained, as expected when fighting on opposite sides of war. They represent everything they’ve been raised to hate.
However, like it’s said in the book,
Infinity stars still. ♾️
Is there any way I will ever get over this book? No! Absolutely not!
There’s just something about this book that really like gets to me? Makes me feel things? And just is so great.
I’ve seen quite a bit of reviews where people feel as if the beginning is rough to get through, but I surprisingly did not have that issue??? Maybe I was just reading and not comprehending but NO I think it was easy for me to get through.
Maybe because I was reading it with the hardcover along with the audiobook? (10/10 recommend this method btw)
Idk, but this book just makes me so full. It fills a part of my heart that felt empty before.
First and foremost, this is about war and death and all things vile. It’s easy to see that Kesath is the enemy and the Night Empire is bad. They are wiping everyone out and that’s that.
Nenavar is like the youngest child, not wanting to get involved in the affairs of the oldest and middle child fights, in my opinion. Switzerland if that’s a better comparison.
This book deals with some heavy topics, but also has some romance interlaced in it as well, which I enjoyed.
It’s the sort of romance that rips your heart out and makes you want to sob, but romance all the same.
The relationship between Talasyn and Alaric is very strained, as expected when fighting on opposite sides of war. They represent everything they’ve been raised to hate.
However, like it’s said in the book,
Hate is a kind of passion, is it not?
LAUGHING SO HARD. Laughing SO hard because of Talasyns reaction after that was said.
Talasyn is so funny to me. Her sense of humor is just like top tier. The banter between her and Alaric made me laugh OUT LOUD multiple times.
I would love to see more of the fantasy elements in the next book, but also not complaining if it’s more fantasy ROMANCE than romantic FANTASY.
CANT WAIT TO START AMR BR tmr!!!! SO READY!!!! ❤️🖤
First read: INFINITY STARS ✮
YALL!!!!! this book was my entire life and will continue to be my entire life as long as i live. the paperback needs to come out faster so i can buy it and mark it tf up!!!!!!
i read this in january but im always late writing reviews (i was withholding it during global strike week).
this book is truly the epitome of slow burn romantasy and it hurts my heart. the ending had me yearning for the second book like?!?!?!? my brain can’t comprehend it and I’m terrified.
ALSO CAN WE JUST TALK AB WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME TALASYN IS? like can we pls?? she’s the loml.
Although this book is pretty long, I felt myself wishing it was longer when it ended. I have a love-hate relationship with slowburns mostly because I'm impatient and just want the characters to get together already, but in this case, I was happy with the very very very VERY slowburn. It made sense with the story very well.
ok this is very disorganized but i cried laughed giggled screamed so i loved this very much! add on that it’s a debut? WHATTTTTTT!!! Thea Guanzon, you have my heart!
bye bye
-Z.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual content
Minor: Vomit, Grief, Death of parent
adventurous
emotional
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
A easy reading fast paced fantasy. The one bit of the book I didn’t love was for the second half of the book the main character has the same argument with herself every 10 pages regarding her feelings towards the male main character and that got slightly tedious towards the end of the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, War
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a superb start to the series!! I am excited to see how everything plays out in the next book!!
This book set up the series to have good potential- political intrigue, war, and some romance. The book itself kept me interested with all the vivid descriptions of the world and I hope there is more character development in the next book.
This book set up the series to have good potential- political intrigue, war, and some romance. The book itself kept me interested with all the vivid descriptions of the world and I hope there is more character development in the next book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, War