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![Grace and Glory [Dramatized Adaptation] by Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://cdn.thestorygraph.com/3ydf6ykwx53dp38i0bib5fz3nf28)
3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
oh great, my first review got deleted. (this review will have a lot of writing errors, english is not my first language and i'm tired)
This book was a disaster. Seriously, it even took me over 40 days to finish it.
I honestly don't know where to start. I'm so exhausted that i highly doubt it will become the long, poisonous review i had planned to write. Although well, knowing me, maybe it is a bit long because brevity is not my thing.
I want to start by saying that i was Team Zayne in 2014 (if you read the main trilogy, you will understand), and that since then, i have waited with a lot of excitement and anxiety that Zayne could star in his own trilogy. And that Jla fulfilled my dreams and expectations in 2019 when he published Storm and Fury and that everything went to hell with its sequel, Rage and Ruin. And when I say that everything went to hell, I mean that I literally threw up from fucking rage. And it is all, and nothing less, Zayne's fault. Because if Zayne wasn't a fucking asshole with no emotional responsibility, I wouldn't be writing this shit right now. But hey, let's not get sidetracked, I don't want to think about the second book because it brings back bad memories and a bad headache.
So it's pretty obvious that my dislike for Zayne wasn't going to allow me to continue with the third book, and I certainly wasn't in my plans, but I couldn't stop thinking about Trinity, my second favorite heroine (after Penryn) and what,,,, i didn't want to die one day without knowing how his story ended, you know?
So I went expecting this book to be a disappointment and of course, i was not wrong LOOOL
I will try to summarize it, but it took me so long to read the whole story that I probably forget a lot of unpleasant details that I will add as the days go by (or not, I really hope to forget about this book as soon).
1. The absence of Roth.
Let's talk about how Jla used Roth's presence in all of the promo teasers for this trilogy and the boy was practically getting more scenes than Zayne and Trinity put together, to mysteriously disappear him in the final conclusion. And I say mysteriously because I feel like Jla killed him and revived him shortly before bringing him back to the third book. The Roth we met was nothing like the Roth from Grace and Glory. He looked like an ugly cheap knockoff. He wasn't Roth and I really disliked that.
Plus there's the fact that I was never a fan of Roth in the main trilogy of his, but I certainly LOVED him in this trilogy, and I came to be hopeful about seeing him more in this book because he was pretty much the star of the previous two books.
So, I can't believe JLA used Roth's presence as the "hero" in the first and second books and almost explored a friendship between Roth and Trinity, for both of them to carry the trilogy on their shoulders because Zayne was as interesting as an old shoe.
And in the last book Jla made Roth barely have a scenes because apparently she didn't want Roth to keep stealing Zayne's limelight. Uhm, too late girl. Two books late. Too late to make that decision. We readers fell in love with Roth and now we wanted to see him!
2. Roth and Trinity's friendship.
In the first book Roth and Trinity teased each other. In the second book they began to spend a lot of time together on "work" issues and a friendship blossomed there. To the point that we could tell that Roth seriously cared about her. They literally went from "I hate you" to "hey I like you" and it was so fantastic that a lot of readers just wished Roth and Trinity would become best friends. Because, whyyy not? Everything indicated that in the third book they could officially consecrate their friendship. We were crying out for it.
It includes Cayman as well, who they had a good time with and could have been a great group of three.
And that Jla decided not to give us all that transition of: "i don't like you weirdo - hmm i think i like you - hey, i consider you something like a sister" bothers me because the author decided not to make those two the best friends they deserved to be.
And I think Jla did it because she realized that people ship Roth and Trinity, and she didn't want to hurt the Roth / Layla, Trinity / Zayne relationship. But JLA too late, because Layla and Zayne were irritating, you had to start there.
3. Dez
I liked Dez in his book, but him saying that he would risk his life for Zayne seemed very ???? BOY, YOU HAVE CHILDREN. YOU HAVE A WIFE. Why are you risking your life for Zayne? They weren't even close friends. If I were Jasmine, I would seriously leave you.
And the fact that Dez had a bigger role in this book and it was he who accompanied Trin on his journey to get Zayne back?
LOOOL. Are we going to pretend not to see what was going on here? Jla desperate to find a last minute friend as she sent Roth to hell ** suspicious ** and that Cayman couldn't ** suspicious x2**, just because the author didn't want some readers to keep shiping to Trinity with both boys and will they downplay Zayne.
So she had to go and find a married man with children to be Trin's friend and not-potential-boyfriend.
Well Jla, went wrong, because i have shipped them anyway.
4. Jada and all of Trin's friends.
Well, I hope her name was Jada or this will be awkward. But the fact that Jla liked isolating Trin and was practically just surrounded by Zayne's friends?
Nothing makes my hair stand on end more than a girl who only has her boyfriend's friends as friends. And much worse if your """two closest friends (layla and stacey)"" acted like bitches with you.
And two demons (cayman and roth) that could easily turn their backs if Layla is in danger?
Well that's not very reliable, is it?
I found it in bad taste that Jla didn't give Trin's friends more prominence in this book, at least. Jada appeared in a chapter and a half and that was it. I think Jada and Ty easily COULD HAVE ACCOMPANIED TRIN ON HIS TRIP. Yes, they should have. Or his adoptive parents. People who were trustworthy and loved Trin, not Zayne's friends.
Because really, let's imagine that in the future Zayne and Trin break up, do you really think that Trin is going to seek comfort from Layla or Stacey? Nope. She will say something like: "They were always friends with him and not mine." So hey, big failure there Jla.
5. Peanut, his ghost friend, turned out to be his father!!
God, define pathetic. Well then Peanut turned out to be her dad and it seems like Jla got that idea off her ass at the last minute because nothing fitted and at the same time "oh, it all fit" so pathetically. Also, Peanut used to spy on Zayne while he bathed and would make double-meaning comments about it.
Yes, we already know that you want your daughter's boyfriend.
We also know that Jla did not plan for you to be the father and that the girl who saw ghosts was going to have more prominence, but it turned out that she got bored at the last minute and was only interested in continuing with Casteel and what was the other girl's name? Penelope?
6.Trinity was unrecognizable. It wasn't the Trin that I liked in the previous books, it seemed muffled and dumber than usual.
I didn't like Zayne's change in attitude. Or rather, I loved it, that's how Zayne must have been from the start. Only then could i have believed that he loved and deserved Trin.
But at this point I don't like the change because I see it more as supernatural magic, I don't feel like it's the real Zayne. It's like when Layla took a piece of his soul away from him and it got nasty and everyone said, "that's not Zayne." Well, the same here. This is not Zayne. He is the Zayne he should have been, but not who he really was. And I can't like him if I feel like all this change has been false, pure supernatural power, and not a natural change of his. I feel like in this book the hero was his intense twin.
7. Layla's and her pathetic apologies, how stressful. Jla was able to go deeper there. Same with Stacey, and i don't like, but if she's your boyfriend's best friend, whom you'll have to see your whole life, at least you can spend a little time together to fix things before the book is over. .
Jla really did give Zayne and Layla a couple cute moments for ... what? Did anyone really want that friendship back? Okay, I don't judge you.
But she could also give me my Roth-Trin fuckin moments!!!
8. NOTHING happened in this book, seriously. The characters spent their time going from house to house, looking for people they would never find, having silly conversations (it improves your dialogues jla, you're not funny!), And embarrassing everyone by bringing a Lucifer who looked like my teenage cousin. Even Zayne and Trin's romantic moments were boring.
As Jla said in her thanks, it is bittersweet to end this series. And sis, you are right, it is so bittersweet to end this series because i ended up hating it very badly.
When I want to re-read the main trilogy (just to read some excerpts from Roth) I will remember this series and I will cry about how horrible it was.
That's it. I was ruined by beautiful memories of Roth.
Layla and Zayne were never important.
And I wish Trinity had been Roth's girlfriend, they had so much more potential and chemistry than the other two unsalted eggs.
This book was a disaster. Seriously, it even took me over 40 days to finish it.
I honestly don't know where to start. I'm so exhausted that i highly doubt it will become the long, poisonous review i had planned to write. Although well, knowing me, maybe it is a bit long because brevity is not my thing.
I want to start by saying that i was Team Zayne in 2014 (if you read the main trilogy, you will understand), and that since then, i have waited with a lot of excitement and anxiety that Zayne could star in his own trilogy. And that Jla fulfilled my dreams and expectations in 2019 when he published Storm and Fury and that everything went to hell with its sequel, Rage and Ruin. And when I say that everything went to hell, I mean that I literally threw up from fucking rage. And it is all, and nothing less, Zayne's fault. Because if Zayne wasn't a fucking asshole with no emotional responsibility, I wouldn't be writing this shit right now. But hey, let's not get sidetracked, I don't want to think about the second book because it brings back bad memories and a bad headache.
So it's pretty obvious that my dislike for Zayne wasn't going to allow me to continue with the third book, and I certainly wasn't in my plans, but I couldn't stop thinking about Trinity, my second favorite heroine (after Penryn) and what,,,, i didn't want to die one day without knowing how his story ended, you know?
So I went expecting this book to be a disappointment and of course, i was not wrong LOOOL
I will try to summarize it, but it took me so long to read the whole story that I probably forget a lot of unpleasant details that I will add as the days go by (or not, I really hope to forget about this book as soon).
1. The absence of Roth.
Let's talk about how Jla used Roth's presence in all of the promo teasers for this trilogy and the boy was practically getting more scenes than Zayne and Trinity put together, to mysteriously disappear him in the final conclusion. And I say mysteriously because I feel like Jla killed him and revived him shortly before bringing him back to the third book. The Roth we met was nothing like the Roth from Grace and Glory. He looked like an ugly cheap knockoff. He wasn't Roth and I really disliked that.
Plus there's the fact that I was never a fan of Roth in the main trilogy of his, but I certainly LOVED him in this trilogy, and I came to be hopeful about seeing him more in this book because he was pretty much the star of the previous two books.
So, I can't believe JLA used Roth's presence as the "hero" in the first and second books and almost explored a friendship between Roth and Trinity, for both of them to carry the trilogy on their shoulders because Zayne was as interesting as an old shoe.
And in the last book Jla made Roth barely have a scenes because apparently she didn't want Roth to keep stealing Zayne's limelight. Uhm, too late girl. Two books late. Too late to make that decision. We readers fell in love with Roth and now we wanted to see him!
2. Roth and Trinity's friendship.
In the first book Roth and Trinity teased each other. In the second book they began to spend a lot of time together on "work" issues and a friendship blossomed there. To the point that we could tell that Roth seriously cared about her. They literally went from "I hate you" to "hey I like you" and it was so fantastic that a lot of readers just wished Roth and Trinity would become best friends. Because, whyyy not? Everything indicated that in the third book they could officially consecrate their friendship. We were crying out for it.
It includes Cayman as well, who they had a good time with and could have been a great group of three.
And that Jla decided not to give us all that transition of: "i don't like you weirdo - hmm i think i like you - hey, i consider you something like a sister" bothers me because the author decided not to make those two the best friends they deserved to be.
And I think Jla did it because she realized that people ship Roth and Trinity, and she didn't want to hurt the Roth / Layla, Trinity / Zayne relationship. But JLA too late, because Layla and Zayne were irritating, you had to start there.
3. Dez
I liked Dez in his book, but him saying that he would risk his life for Zayne seemed very ???? BOY, YOU HAVE CHILDREN. YOU HAVE A WIFE. Why are you risking your life for Zayne? They weren't even close friends. If I were Jasmine, I would seriously leave you.
And the fact that Dez had a bigger role in this book and it was he who accompanied Trin on his journey to get Zayne back?
LOOOL. Are we going to pretend not to see what was going on here? Jla desperate to find a last minute friend as she sent Roth to hell ** suspicious ** and that Cayman couldn't ** suspicious x2**, just because the author didn't want some readers to keep shiping to Trinity with both boys and will they downplay Zayne.
So she had to go and find a married man with children to be Trin's friend and not-potential-boyfriend.
Well Jla, went wrong, because i have shipped them anyway.
4. Jada and all of Trin's friends.
Well, I hope her name was Jada or this will be awkward. But the fact that Jla liked isolating Trin and was practically just surrounded by Zayne's friends?
Nothing makes my hair stand on end more than a girl who only has her boyfriend's friends as friends. And much worse if your """two closest friends (layla and stacey)"" acted like bitches with you.
And two demons (cayman and roth) that could easily turn their backs if Layla is in danger?
Well that's not very reliable, is it?
I found it in bad taste that Jla didn't give Trin's friends more prominence in this book, at least. Jada appeared in a chapter and a half and that was it. I think Jada and Ty easily COULD HAVE ACCOMPANIED TRIN ON HIS TRIP. Yes, they should have. Or his adoptive parents. People who were trustworthy and loved Trin, not Zayne's friends.
Because really, let's imagine that in the future Zayne and Trin break up, do you really think that Trin is going to seek comfort from Layla or Stacey? Nope. She will say something like: "They were always friends with him and not mine." So hey, big failure there Jla.
5. Peanut, his ghost friend, turned out to be his father!!
God, define pathetic. Well then Peanut turned out to be her dad and it seems like Jla got that idea off her ass at the last minute because nothing fitted and at the same time "oh, it all fit" so pathetically. Also, Peanut used to spy on Zayne while he bathed and would make double-meaning comments about it.
Yes, we already know that you want your daughter's boyfriend.
We also know that Jla did not plan for you to be the father and that the girl who saw ghosts was going to have more prominence, but it turned out that she got bored at the last minute and was only interested in continuing with Casteel and what was the other girl's name? Penelope?
6.Trinity was unrecognizable. It wasn't the Trin that I liked in the previous books, it seemed muffled and dumber than usual.
I didn't like Zayne's change in attitude. Or rather, I loved it, that's how Zayne must have been from the start. Only then could i have believed that he loved and deserved Trin.
But at this point I don't like the change because I see it more as supernatural magic, I don't feel like it's the real Zayne. It's like when Layla took a piece of his soul away from him and it got nasty and everyone said, "that's not Zayne." Well, the same here. This is not Zayne. He is the Zayne he should have been, but not who he really was. And I can't like him if I feel like all this change has been false, pure supernatural power, and not a natural change of his. I feel like in this book the hero was his intense twin.
7. Layla's and her pathetic apologies, how stressful. Jla was able to go deeper there. Same with Stacey, and i don't like, but if she's your boyfriend's best friend, whom you'll have to see your whole life, at least you can spend a little time together to fix things before the book is over. .
Jla really did give Zayne and Layla a couple cute moments for ... what? Did anyone really want that friendship back? Okay, I don't judge you.
But she could also give me my Roth-Trin fuckin moments!!!
8. NOTHING happened in this book, seriously. The characters spent their time going from house to house, looking for people they would never find, having silly conversations (it improves your dialogues jla, you're not funny!), And embarrassing everyone by bringing a Lucifer who looked like my teenage cousin. Even Zayne and Trin's romantic moments were boring.
As Jla said in her thanks, it is bittersweet to end this series. And sis, you are right, it is so bittersweet to end this series because i ended up hating it very badly.
When I want to re-read the main trilogy (just to read some excerpts from Roth) I will remember this series and I will cry about how horrible it was.
That's it. I was ruined by beautiful memories of Roth.
Layla and Zayne were never important.
And I wish Trinity had been Roth's girlfriend, they had so much more potential and chemistry than the other two unsalted eggs.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
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:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
funny
medium-paced
Overall, I liked this series. The second book was a struggle but this one made it alright.
I'm just not a fan of Trinity which made it hard for me to like the series as much.
I am very curious about the spin off with Zayne, as I do feel he deserved more of a leading role in these than he got!
I'm just not a fan of Trinity which made it hard for me to like the series as much.
I am very curious about the spin off with Zayne, as I do feel he deserved more of a leading role in these than he got!
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
- No podía ver ninguna estrella, pero no pasaba nada. Podía contemplar la
Constelación de Zayne todas las noches. Siempre recordaría aquel hermoso
mar de luces deslumbrantes y centelleantes. Ese recuerdo nunca se
desvanecería. Siempre estaría presente cuando levantara la mirada hacia el
cielo. Siempre vería las estrellas pasara lo que pasase, gracias a él.
A Cacahuete.
A mi padre.
«Gracias, papá». Articulé las palabras sin otorgarles sonido, pero me
pareció que él las oyó de todas formas.
«Gracias». - Pero soy yo. Te lo prometo, Trin. Soy yo de verdad.
Pregúntame algo que solo yo recordaría.
Me lo quedé mirando, pasmada.
—No se me ocurre nada en este momento. Tengo el cerebro demasiado
lleno y demasiado vacío al mismo tiempo.
Entonces él sonrió y el corazón me dio un vuelco. Era su sonrisa, cálida
y abierta, y nunca pensé que volvería a ver esa sonrisa.
—Vale. Déjame pensar en algo. —Se mordió el labio inferior y, si me
encontrara de pie, estaba segura de que me habrían fallado las piernas.
Zayne… hacía eso constantemente, pero solo lo había hecho una vez
después de caer—. Ya lo tengo. Tienes una constelación en el techo de tu
habitación.
Dejé de respirar del todo entonces. Lo juro, mis pulmones se paralizaron
por completo mientras me ponía de pie.
—Yo la coloqué allí —continuó, y se puso de pie despacio—. La llamé
la Constelación de Zayne, y lo que pasó después de mostrarte ese techo
debe ser uno de los recuerdos que más atesoro de toda mi vida. —Su voz se
volvió más profunda mientras se mordía el labio de nuevo—. Me
demostraste cuánto me querías. Me lo entregaste todo: tu cuerpo, tu
corazón, tu confianza.
I gotta appreciate JLA bc she always gives HEA’s, just not always in the way we expect. The end was a little annoying bc it was almost the same exact thing that happened with Layla. I knew I was gonna love Lucifer. He’s funny asf but I’m glad that even tho it seemed like Michael was an ass for the 3 books he actually was a very good father. The Supernatural references also killed me