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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
*Read for PopSugar's 2021 Reading Challenge: A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads*
Utterly delightful and just what I wanted to read.
Utterly delightful and just what I wanted to read.
Meda is a princess of Hell. She's half human, half demon and her demonic side feeds on human souls so she's not your average Miss Perfect Blemish Free I Can Do No Wrong type of protagonist, which I adore. She's a walking contradiction but not once did any of her choices seemed force, as in author wanted character to end up in Situation B so author makes her do something unexpected in Situation A.
The book has got wit and fast paced and a badass female protagonist. It's dark and it doesn't shy away from descriptions and have I mention witty banter? Love it. But it's not a 5 star because I couldn't emotionally connect with the character but it's not for lack of trying. Also, along the way some of the twists felt easy to guess but all in all a good ending.
The book has got wit and fast paced and a badass female protagonist. It's dark and it doesn't shy away from descriptions and have I mention witty banter? Love it. But it's not a 5 star because I couldn't emotionally connect with the character but it's not for lack of trying. Also, along the way some of the twists felt easy to guess but all in all a good ending.
What an awesome YA book. Meda is a real badass as a main character and a strong female lead. She eats human souls and is evil as a person, very selfish and manipulative. Loved her. I was grateful for the lack of typical YA romance stuff, since I wasn't in the mood for never dying love and love triangles. The plot is pretty good and the story was constantly moving on. The ending is the only thing I have something to complain about. It felt a bit too mushy. But then again, this doesn't end in a huge cliffhanger, so you could only read this first one and be happy.
I gobbled this book up. (See what I did there?)
Meda is a sarcastic and wise cracking protagonist. The author really had fun with her and her evilness.
The side characters are less fleshed out, at first. It really takes the whole book to get to know them. Chi, our leading man, is dull in more than one way. How can he be so stupid? (But fortunately he isn't the love interest. Yay!) Jo is a little better but it takes a while for her to get over her too jealousness and bitterness.
The relationships really unfold slowly and I liked the gradual trust and friendship.
I hadn't expected this to be a magic school type book and it reminded me a bit of Mortal Instruments at first.
The Bad:
Present tense *cringes*
Meda is a sarcastic and wise cracking protagonist. The author really had fun with her and her evilness.
The side characters are less fleshed out, at first. It really takes the whole book to get to know them. Chi, our leading man, is dull in more than one way. How can he be so stupid? (But fortunately he isn't the love interest. Yay!) Jo is a little better but it takes a while for her to get over her too jealousness and bitterness.
The relationships really unfold slowly and I liked the gradual trust and friendship.
I hadn't expected this to be a magic school type book and it reminded me a bit of Mortal Instruments at first.
The Bad:
Present tense *cringes*
Well, I wasn't really in the mood for an anti-hero, and then I realized that I'd picked up yet another Strange Chemistry publication (in my experience, a world of mediocrity), and that we were in a demon universe and this Did Not Bode Well. It was a bit of a drag at first, but Meda did win me over somewhat by the end. She's mean snark rather than really clever snark, but she did have some good one-liners and the world was fairly interesting. Also, Templars, fancy meeting you in a trailer park run by a motorcycle gang (ok, that was both funny and clever in concept). Like I said, it won me over. The writing's a bit rough around the edges, but there's all kinds of potential here.
didn't expect this book to be so funny, it's quite hilarious.
I loved the way this book is written. The story flies off the page and demands to be read, the characters are gutsy and brave and each one's different. There are thousands of different twists and turns and so much good writing that it's enough to knock you flat.
This was so unlike anything I've ever read before.
Our main character is half-demon and likes to eat the souls of murderers. She always thought she was unique but turns out there's more halflings as well as full-blood demons and there's a hierarchy. She runs into three demons and when demonhunters appear to destroy the demons, she thinks it's best to conceal her true identity. The demonhunters Chi, Jo and Uri bring her to their demonhunter school to protect her.
One would expect that demonhunters have a luxurious life. However, in this particular case they are the descendants of the Knights Templar and have sworn an oath of poverty. This means that they live in a trailer park which is disguised as a motorcycle club. The school looks like a run-down building and is pretty ordinary on the inside. This was one of the aspects that sets this book apart from others. It did not seem desirable at all to be one of the Templars and that made it so interesting to read about.
The fact that Meda is half-demon made it so interesting to read from her perspective. She has a hard time relating to human emotions and controlling her thirst for souls. At the beginning of the story she was unapologetically selfish which was refreshing to see in a character. She has lost her only family and has been alone in the world for the last two years. Additionally, because of her demon blood she has a hard time caring for mere humans. At the end though, Meda has learned that she can rely on others and she realizes that Chi and Jo have become her best friends.
The romance was only a subplot and that works really well for the book because Meda is only just realizing that she can care for humans in a platonic way. Not giving her a romantic interest was a good choice as it would not have been realistic that Meda would have any romantic feeling towards another character, not now and maybe not ever. Instead, the romance of two side characters was shown. It's interesting to have the main romance arc of the book without the main character. Meda was as much a spectator as the readers and that made for some funny comments and observation during her narration.
Our main character is half-demon and likes to eat the souls of murderers. She always thought she was unique but turns out there's more halflings as well as full-blood demons and there's a hierarchy. She runs into three demons and when demonhunters appear to destroy the demons, she thinks it's best to conceal her true identity. The demonhunters Chi, Jo and Uri bring her to their demonhunter school to protect her.
One would expect that demonhunters have a luxurious life. However, in this particular case they are the descendants of the Knights Templar and have sworn an oath of poverty. This means that they live in a trailer park which is disguised as a motorcycle club. The school looks like a run-down building and is pretty ordinary on the inside. This was one of the aspects that sets this book apart from others. It did not seem desirable at all to be one of the Templars and that made it so interesting to read about.
The fact that Meda is half-demon made it so interesting to read from her perspective. She has a hard time relating to human emotions and controlling her thirst for souls. At the beginning of the story she was unapologetically selfish which was refreshing to see in a character. She has lost her only family and has been alone in the world for the last two years. Additionally, because of her demon blood she has a hard time caring for mere humans. At the end though, Meda has learned that she can rely on others and she realizes that Chi and Jo have become her best friends.
The romance was only a subplot and that works really well for the book because Meda is only just realizing that she can care for humans in a platonic way. Not giving her a romantic interest was a good choice as it would not have been realistic that Meda would have any romantic feeling towards another character, not now and maybe not ever. Instead, the romance of two side characters was shown. It's interesting to have the main romance arc of the book without the main character. Meda was as much a spectator as the readers and that made for some funny comments and observation during her narration.