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mystikai's review against another edition
4.0
The Bonds of Blood is a great start to the Revenant Wyrd Saga. We meet Jovian, Angelica, Amber, and Joya they are quadruplets and they have just reached their twenty-first birthday They each receive gifts that belonged to their belated mother and it isn’t long before things start going array. There are secrets to be revealed and kidnapping and what was thought to be a children’s story by the quadruplets turns out to be real. This really is a fantastic fantasy adventure. We witness the four grow up into strong adults before our eyes.
The story is slow to get started but it does get to a faster pace and I would urge people who are struggling with it to keep at it as they will enjoy it once a lot of things are put together.
Travis Simmons put a lot of thought and hard work into this book building the books world and characters.
I really enjoyed it and can’t wait to read the second book in the saga.
The story is slow to get started but it does get to a faster pace and I would urge people who are struggling with it to keep at it as they will enjoy it once a lot of things are put together.
Travis Simmons put a lot of thought and hard work into this book building the books world and characters.
I really enjoyed it and can’t wait to read the second book in the saga.
dreamerfreak's review against another edition
3.0
The Bonds of Blood has a lot of potential, unfortunately, a lot of it is wasted in confusing writing and obscure plot. It's... interesting. The world building is good and unique, but hard to grasp. I spent a lot of the book just feeling puzzled as I tried to work out who was who and just what was going on. (Oh, the siblings are quads? Why was this not mentioned?!) I feel like I should have enjoyed this much more than I did. The ending had a great cliffhanger, but I doubt that I'm going back for more.
[I received this book for free through First Reads and was not required to write a positive or any other type of review. All opinions stated herein are solely my own.]
ETA (see comment below): As I said, this book has some nice potential going for it. The siblings are well-developed characters, but I found the interactions between them to be confusing. I didn't realize they were almost twenty-one until the birthday party was mentioned... let alone that they were quadruplets (and not quintuplets as was once mentioned... unless I missed a sibling altogether?). I thought Joya in particular was much younger then that, and it threw me off when I discovered their age and relation.
The plot was... a bit confusing. I mean, there was the obvious "save the sister" thread. But then I got deeper with the prophecy (that I had trouble grasping) and dalua and such... and maybe it's just that it's meant to be mysterious, but I didn't quite get it.
The last thing that bothered me (and I did mean to mention this, but it slipped my mind when I was writing my initial review) was the morals of it. Not that the quads and Grace and Maeven were bad people or something dramatic like that, but the lines between good and evil seemed very blurred to me (and this might relate back to me not quite grasping the plot). Maybe this is just being raised in a conservative home, where there are gray areas because life is never that clear cut, but there are certain areas of black and white as well. I don't know. But it left me feeling very unsettled throughout, when I couldn't determine whether the voice Joya was hearing was good or not (although I think it is kind of... neither, but that wasn't very clear either). This seemed especially strange to me when it seems that The Bonds of Blood is following a little bit of the epic good vs. evil trope. (Tropes are not a bad thing. Do not take this negatively.)
So as I said before, I came through this book mainly feeling puzzled.
[I received this book for free through First Reads and was not required to write a positive or any other type of review. All opinions stated herein are solely my own.]
ETA (see comment below): As I said, this book has some nice potential going for it. The siblings are well-developed characters, but I found the interactions between them to be confusing. I didn't realize they were almost twenty-one until the birthday party was mentioned... let alone that they were quadruplets (and not quintuplets as was once mentioned... unless I missed a sibling altogether?). I thought Joya in particular was much younger then that, and it threw me off when I discovered their age and relation.
The plot was... a bit confusing. I mean, there was the obvious "save the sister" thread. But then I got deeper with the prophecy (that I had trouble grasping) and dalua and such... and maybe it's just that it's meant to be mysterious, but I didn't quite get it.
The last thing that bothered me (and I did mean to mention this, but it slipped my mind when I was writing my initial review) was the morals of it. Not that the quads and Grace and Maeven were bad people or something dramatic like that, but the lines between good and evil seemed very blurred to me (and this might relate back to me not quite grasping the plot). Maybe this is just being raised in a conservative home, where there are gray areas because life is never that clear cut, but there are certain areas of black and white as well. I don't know. But it left me feeling very unsettled throughout, when I couldn't determine whether the voice Joya was hearing was good or not (although I think it is kind of... neither, but that wasn't very clear either). This seemed especially strange to me when it seems that The Bonds of Blood is following a little bit of the epic good vs. evil trope. (Tropes are not a bad thing. Do not take this negatively.)
So as I said before, I came through this book mainly feeling puzzled.
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