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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
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:
Yes
I love Isiadora, she’s such a great main character, I love her whole vibe. If people already assume you’re goth af, might as well summon some demons to blow off some steam.
And her prank on Rowan made me cackle.
Rowan was eh to me at first but once he gets, he gets it. Super quick ending but it was good.
And her prank on Rowan made me cackle.
Rowan was eh to me at first but once he gets, he gets it. Super quick ending but it was good.
The bad first:
I'm a weirdo who doesn't need graphicly described sex scenes or 'spice' in my books. Alluded to or "fade to black" when the fun starts is perfectly good enough to me. But I realize this is a very unpopular, minority opinion.
2nd: Witches, proper witches, do not work with, believe in, or have anything to do with demons. Its like invoking a fictional character to do your bidding (or banishing...). Demons are Christian lore, not witchcraft. The whole romanticizing the puritan witch hunts and 1980s satanic panic in paranormal/witchy literature has got to stop, please.
3rd: kind of harping on 1st again, but in book 1, Isadora was presented as an lgbtqia+ FMC, yet in the 2nd, she's with a man (granted, its a mixed race relationship, so kudos for that). I understand the B in lgbtq is for Bi, and bi-erasure is a thing (as a demi-bi, I get it) but the graphicness of the heteronormative sex scenes compared to the "allusions" of spice in the Sapphic scenes from book 1 was just off-putting. Yes, I know this is hypocritcal of me, but if you fade to black for wlw scenes and describe in explicit detail hetero scenes like that....why? Its feeding into the heteronormativity, bi-erasure, and disregard for LGBTQIA+ folks at a time when they need all the good media representation possible.
Ok, enough whinging. The Good:
Interracial relationship! and Rowan is super "ideal book boyfriend" material in this.
Trying to escape from the family business to do her own thing (fashion, but seriously, her goals for a clothing line are unrealistic at best and unprofitable/running at a major loss at worst in 2024 American capitalism).
I already picked up the audios for the next two (yay sales!), so maybe when I run out of great books to listen to and forget how terrible this was, I'll go back to them. But my TBR/TBL list has gotten OOC suddenly.
edited because I think faster than I type and forget to use words.
I'm a weirdo who doesn't need graphicly described sex scenes or 'spice' in my books. Alluded to or "fade to black" when the fun starts is perfectly good enough to me. But I realize this is a very unpopular, minority opinion.
2nd: Witches, proper witches, do not work with, believe in, or have anything to do with demons. Its like invoking a fictional character to do your bidding (or banishing...). Demons are Christian lore, not witchcraft. The whole romanticizing the puritan witch hunts and 1980s satanic panic in paranormal/witchy literature has got to stop, please.
3rd: kind of harping on 1st again, but in book 1, Isadora was presented as an lgbtqia+ FMC, yet in the 2nd, she's with a man (granted, its a mixed race relationship, so kudos for that). I understand the B in lgbtq is for Bi, and bi-erasure is a thing (as a demi-bi, I get it) but the graphicness of the heteronormative sex scenes compared to the "allusions" of spice in the Sapphic scenes from book 1 was just off-putting. Yes, I know this is hypocritcal of me, but if you fade to black for wlw scenes and describe in explicit detail hetero scenes like that....why? Its feeding into the heteronormativity, bi-erasure, and disregard for LGBTQIA+ folks at a time when they need all the good media representation possible.
Ok, enough whinging. The Good:
Interracial relationship! and Rowan is super "ideal book boyfriend" material in this.
Trying to escape from the family business to do her own thing (fashion, but seriously, her goals for a clothing line are unrealistic at best and unprofitable/running at a major loss at worst in 2024 American capitalism).
I already picked up the audios for the next two (yay sales!), so maybe when I run out of great books to listen to and forget how terrible this was, I'll go back to them. But my TBR/TBL list has gotten OOC suddenly.
edited because I think faster than I type and forget to use words.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
slow-paced
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
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:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
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