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adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Incest, Infidelity
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
Moderate: Violence
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I found the main character frustrating. The middle of the book dragged but the ending was fantastic. I will continue the series as I want to see what happens next and the plot is interesting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, War
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Grief, Classism
Minor: Cursing, Gaslighting
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
FMC got even more annoying. A petulant child who lacks impulse control, self awareness and common sense. No main character should be this slow on the uptake either. Also, everything was so repetitive and predictable.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Racism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Classism
Minor: Genocide
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Still waiting for someone to put a blade through Henri for the love of god. Luther, Taran, and Eleanor carried this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia
Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment
Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol
adventurous
mysterious
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
I enjoyed this book’s expansion of the world and myth building from the first novel. For the most part, I loved the new characters that we were introduced to, especially Taran and Eleanor. There were some additions I did not like (for example: Ileana was cartoonishly evil and not interesting as a “villain” at all. She was merely annoying). I did find myself at times to be very frustrated with Diem’s poor decision-making, but the other characters made continuing the book worthwhile.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting
Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Minor: Incest
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oooh, this was fun! I love, love, LOVE the found family in this book—this little group is so precious and they make my heart so happy! Taran is giving me Cassian x Ridoc vibes and I’m here for it. The flip-flop slow burn had me twitching at times, but Luther is *chef’s kiss* so I hope Diem gets things figured out in the next book.
Personally, I liked Glow more than Spark. I appreciated that this book had more magic, more power-hungry politics, more messy relationships, more world-building, and even more slow burn. This was really enjoyable, even if the FMC had some moments that made me want to toss my book across the room. Diving into book 3 as soon as I can!
Personally, I liked Glow more than Spark. I appreciated that this book had more magic, more power-hungry politics, more messy relationships, more world-building, and even more slow burn. This was really enjoyable, even if the FMC had some moments that made me want to toss my book across the room. Diving into book 3 as soon as I can!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Death of parent
Moderate: Grief, Murder
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ahhhhh!!!!
I love how this book picked up immediately after Spark finished. That made it feel more like a movie, which was enjoyable.
Character growth and progression in this book was wonderful. Sometimes predictable? Sure. But really enjoyable and well done.
The story proceeded as was obvious that it would, but there were definitely a few surprises along the way.
The slow burn 🙌
I love how this book picked up immediately after Spark finished. That made it feel more like a movie, which was enjoyable.
Character growth and progression in this book was wonderful. Sometimes predictable? Sure. But really enjoyable and well done.
The story proceeded as was obvious that it would, but there were definitely a few surprises along the way.
The slow burn 🙌
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Death of parent, War, Classism
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent
challenging
dark
emotional
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:
Complicated
𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝑷𝒆𝒏𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒆 (𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅'𝒔 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 #2)
Release Date: July 18, 2023
5⭐️3🌶
I'm absolutely in LOVE with this series. I bow down to Penn Cole's ability to write a slow burn. This whole series has me in a choke hold! I was supposed to be doing other things this past week, but all I did was sneak in reading time.
Diem is struggling to find her power and herself in this new life she's found herself in. She is floundering between her new life with the Descended and her old life with the Mortals, and they're pulling her in different directions.
Luther is showing himself more and more, but he continues to keep secrets from her, and she can't fulling trust him until he reveals everything he's kept from her.
Henri is no longer the boy she grew up with, but she desperately wants to keep her promises to him. She doesn't feel the same way about him that she does Luther, however.
The 20 Descended Houses are breathing down her throat, and each of them want to manipulate her for their own gains and turn her to their own political views.
This series is ALL sexual tension, world building, political intrigue, and finding oneself. I can't get enough. I'm so excited for the next one!
Themes/Tropes:
🍁Slaves-Ruling Fae
🍁Undiscovered powers
🍁Enemies to lovers
🍁Hidden Princess
🍁Shadow Daddy
🍁Fae Kingdoms with different powers
🍁Political Intrigue
🍁Rebelling humans against the fae
TW:
✨Violence
✨Poverty/hunger
✨Violence against slaves
✨Rebellion against masters
✨Explicit spicy content
✨Power hungry courtiers/fae
Release Date: July 18, 2023
5⭐️3🌶
I'm absolutely in LOVE with this series. I bow down to Penn Cole's ability to write a slow burn. This whole series has me in a choke hold! I was supposed to be doing other things this past week, but all I did was sneak in reading time.
Diem is struggling to find her power and herself in this new life she's found herself in. She is floundering between her new life with the Descended and her old life with the Mortals, and they're pulling her in different directions.
Luther is showing himself more and more, but he continues to keep secrets from her, and she can't fulling trust him until he reveals everything he's kept from her.
Henri is no longer the boy she grew up with, but she desperately wants to keep her promises to him. She doesn't feel the same way about him that she does Luther, however.
The 20 Descended Houses are breathing down her throat, and each of them want to manipulate her for their own gains and turn her to their own political views.
This series is ALL sexual tension, world building, political intrigue, and finding oneself. I can't get enough. I'm so excited for the next one!
Themes/Tropes:
🍁Slaves-Ruling Fae
🍁Undiscovered powers
🍁Enemies to lovers
🍁Hidden Princess
🍁Shadow Daddy
🍁Fae Kingdoms with different powers
🍁Political Intrigue
🍁Rebelling humans against the fae
TW:
✨Violence
✨Poverty/hunger
✨Violence against slaves
✨Rebellion against masters
✨Explicit spicy content
✨Power hungry courtiers/fae
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence