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What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

37 reviews

milla_b's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • 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

Morally grey….. 
I don’t really know how to describe this without spoilers. This is a dark fantasy with fated mates and humans and fae. Not perfect but definitely has legs and will continue to read on. 

Estrella, has moxi and some great one liners, you see her choosing for herself even though at times those choices don’t seem like choices. She finds a way to honor her self and define her worth. At some point it looks like she’s abandoning that for a man, but she doesn’t, she questions and tries desperately to guard her heart against Caelum. 

Caelum seems to good to be true and a little too perfect and this grated on me and for me he was a giant red flag 🚩I don’t like him, but he’s interesting and definitely hiding a hole heap of secrets. 

As for the story…. Book 1 barely touches the surface of this world and it’s history and what happens now the veil is down. 

While there were some bits that were predictable..,,, not quite to the extent they go but definitely worth continuing with. 
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midnacine's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

One star taken off because the relationship felt a little rushed and there was a lot of foreshadowing to the twist that made it a little predictable. Otherwise had a good time and if A Soul of Ash and Blood didn't download to my Kindle 40 minutes ago, I would immediately start the second one
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vee79's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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xosirenox's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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massnerder246's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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surrah's review against another edition

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adventurous dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

The world felt extremely shallow, the characters felt like generic versions of other fantasty romance novel characters, and the main love interest was gross. The decisions made by characters didn't always make sense. The plot was choppy and it felt like nothing happened for a majority of the book...other than the main love interest being a creep. Look, I'm all for the desperate love that a lot of characters have in other books, but this was not that. I kept going in the hopes it would get better but unfortunately it did not.

Like other reviews are saying, if you are at all sensitive to SA, abuse, etc. you should not read this.
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cm4657's review against another edition

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2.0

This book made me feel gross. The male love interest is genuinely disgusting and has little to no redeeming qualities I have no clue how this series continues but I hope it’s like ACOTAR and Tamlins character. 

Please do not read if you are at all sensitive to sexual content of aggressive nature, as well as suicidal thoughts xx
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elstark007's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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shan_lou's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

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jenniday's review

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adventurous dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

I may gouge my eyes out if I have to read “my star” or “Little One” (BARF) again. Super stiff dialogue, no lovable or likable characters, and a lot of cringe-worthy moments. Estrella is the idiot whom we are supposed to love and root for but she shows no growth throughout the story. And don’t even get me started on Caelum. He is the absolute worst. He infantilizes the FMC and is a total creep. Ugh. I will not read the next one, because frankly, I just don’t care what happens and the whole book gave me the “ick.”
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