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missindyrose's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Addiction, and Alcohol
Moderate: Rape and War
saliwali's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Slavery, Sexual content, Cursing, Murder, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse
koistyfishy's review
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
3.5 Stars ⭐️
This is a hard review to write as I need to find a way to articulate that on some levels I ABSOLUTELY loved it and on other levels it frustrated and annoyed me. This book had a tonne of potential to be an absolutely excellent story but in the end it just fell short and ends up at fine. I think what was missing is that final bit of polish or few rounds of editing to just clean it up a bit.
The book starts almost identically to ACOTAR - I mean girl in the woods with a bow and fighting for her and her sister survival. Due to this initial seed of similarity being planted I battled to distinguish the story as something original or bordering on Fan Fiction. There are parts in the plot that read like Alexandria Warwick had a tropic scene she wanted to write and then just dropped it into the plot. Examples of this are: Wren Robin Hooded Boreas's arrow and they share a meal where they have to "feed" each other . We also get a lot of lets go to this place, then this place, then this place.... and it does not have the full cohesion it needs to have to explain why and so ends up seeming like an idea just needed to be on page because she wanted to write it vs the scene has a full purpose.
Overall the story starts off enticing and I wanted to keep reading, but then the story loses the plot. Quite literally. I had no idea what direction the story was going. It became a slow drag with no clear motive or pointed direction.
It does contain tropes that tick all of my boxes
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forced Marraige
- One Bed/Horse
- Beauty and the Beast/Hades and Persephone
I also really liked the influences of the Greek Mythology surrounding the Four Winds, it was a unique take on an old legend and then twisted to the "Hades" vibes was also something new seen in a typical Hades/Persephone type book.
One thing that was a strange juxtaposition for me is how excellent and then confusing the transition from enemies to lovers occurs. My pet peeve in some enemies to lovers books is that sometimes the characters go too quickly from "I hate you" to "I absolute love you with all my heart". This book had aspects of that but then also had one of the best transitions to lovers I have ever read. There are weird moments where Wren basically a couple of days before wanted to kill him and now she loves him, but there is also a really gradual understanding that develops between Wren and Boreas whilst they move from Enemies to friends to lovers. They started seeking the companionship of each other as friends and then the attractions started slowly bubbling up to slight flirtation to out write flirtation. This transition to me is not often something you see done so well and I really appreciated the time it took for this gradual change to occur.
Wren herself is a weird contradiction. She starts of being explained as this selfless character but makes selfish, stupid and utterly dumb decisions in the book that make her unlikable.
In the end I was left with a tonne of unanswered questions that just confuse me and just things in the plot...that I am like what????
Questions and What Moments:
1) YOU ARE UPSET that he is leaving you unsatisfied because he has to go fight in a war to save his people??
2) Boreas - YOU gave up immortality for a woman I am sure you only love because she reminds you of your dead wife???
3) Who is going to do the whole judgement of souls now????
4) How did Zeph get the darkwalkers to obey him?
3) Why does he need a new wife every 30 years? What happened to the last one - why does he only talk about the one that died 300 years ago
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This is a hard review to write as I need to find a way to articulate that on some levels I ABSOLUTELY loved it and on other levels it frustrated and annoyed me. This book had a tonne of potential to be an absolutely excellent story but in the end it just fell short and ends up at fine. I think what was missing is that final bit of polish or few rounds of editing to just clean it up a bit.
The book starts almost identically to ACOTAR - I mean girl in the woods with a bow and fighting for her and her sister survival. Due to this initial seed of similarity being planted I battled to distinguish the story as something original or bordering on Fan Fiction. There are parts in the plot that read like Alexandria Warwick had a tropic scene she wanted to write and then just dropped it into the plot. Examples of this are:
Overall the story starts off enticing and I wanted to keep reading, but then the story loses the plot. Quite literally. I had no idea what direction the story was going. It became a slow drag with no clear motive or pointed direction.
It does contain tropes that tick all of my boxes
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forced Marraige
- One Bed/Horse
- Beauty and the Beast/Hades and Persephone
I also really liked the influences of the Greek Mythology surrounding the Four Winds, it was a unique take on an old legend and then twisted to the "Hades" vibes was also something new seen in a typical Hades/Persephone type book.
One thing that was a strange juxtaposition for me is how excellent and then confusing the transition from enemies to lovers occurs. My pet peeve in some enemies to lovers books is that sometimes the characters go too quickly from "I hate you" to "I absolute love you with all my heart". This book had aspects of that but then also had one of the best transitions to lovers I have ever read.
Wren herself is a weird contradiction. She starts of being explained as this selfless character but makes selfish, stupid and utterly dumb decisions in the book that make her unlikable.
In the end I was left with a tonne of unanswered questions that just confuse me and just things in the plot...that I am like what????
Questions and What Moments:
1) YOU ARE UPSET that he is leaving you unsatisfied because he has to go fight in a war to save his people??
2) Boreas - YOU gave up immortality for a woman I am sure you only love because she reminds you of your dead wife???
3) Who is going to do the whole judgement of souls now????
4) How did Zeph get the darkwalkers to obey him?
3) Why does he need a new wife every 30 years? What happened to the last one - why does he only talk about the one that died 300 years ago
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Grief
Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault and Rape
lunahale's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
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? Yes
4.25
feral, murderous, brash women will always have my heart 🫶🏼
powerful, immortal men giving up their immortality for their women hits so much harder than women gaining immortality to be with their men *chef’s kiss* (also, the only reason this doesn’t get five stars is bc of how silly wren was at the end. like get a grip girl, he so obviously loves you.)
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death, War, Rape, and Domestic abuse
rape and domestic abuse are NOT present between the main love interests.jackie_recommends's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism
Minor: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Grief
asmaltz3's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Gives me Hunger Games meets Game of Thrones meets Olympus vibes. If you liked Rhapsodic by Laura Thalissa, you'll probably like this. I'm also reading A Court of Thorns and Roses, and the books appear to start similarly.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, War, and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Violence, Torture, Vomit, Animal death, and Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Rape, and Kidnapping
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