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Glow of the Everflame

Penn Cole

4.32 AVERAGE

challenging emotional hopeful 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
adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

***Disclaimer: Spoilers ahead***

Possible triggers: Death, Decapitation, Depression, Gore, Grief, Murder, Torture, Violence

Overall star rating (out of 5⭐️): 4.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spice level (out of 5🌶️): 2 🌶️ (kissing and prelude to sex)

Content review: What great writing and what a great story! Love the characters, their development, the found family dynamics and the chemistry between the two main characters. Lots of up and downs, twists and suspense. Can’t wait for the next book!

Narrator review: great narrator! No complaints - 4 out of 5

Tags: bargain, betrayal, fantasy, fated mates, forced proximity, good banter, great storyline, high fantasy, magic, political intrigue, romantasy, slow burn, 

Tropes: he falls first and harder, knife to throat, one horse only, touch her and die

❤️ Love interest: Luther x Diem
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kimdkn's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

Whiny, very immature and prejudiced main character. Chill a bit D!
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense 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

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Diem continues to be one of the most annoying FMCs in existence. I had to take breaks reading this book because everything about her is so incredibly toxic that it wore my nerves down. Her father calls her selfish at one point and BOY was he right. She lives in a world of delusion, narcissism, fear, and is strangely both arrogant and weak-willed at the same time. I would honestly be fine if she was killed off and the pov switched to Luther. He and Lily, Teller, Alixe, Taran, and Eleanor are the only good parts of this series. The love Luther has for Diem is bar none some of the most epic, swoonworthy romance I've ever read, but Diem does not deserve him one bit and she does nothing but string him along. She waffles on him so incredibly much that
I'm not holding my breath at them finally getting together at the end of this book. Diem will find some way to irrevocably hurt him and shatter his heart again; its what she does best after all.
I desperately want a new FMC to come into this series who does deserve him. He can be a bit of a simp at times, but it doesn't make me dislike him, I just wish he stood up for himself more. 

This book is like book one in the sense that it feels like a lot of world building with not much action that comes to pass. We're given a lot in terms of the politics of the Descended world, where all of the alliances and feuds lie between the houses, and how Diem might fit into that heirarchy. We're still biding our time building Diem up to become the Queen she needs to be, giving her time to figure her s*** out and manifesting her magic. We see her CLING to Henry with the force of a dying star collapsing in on itself although he could really give two craps about her. Diem finds her Descended family and doesn't deserve them and how good to her they are. 

Overall, I really wish the storyline had moved more, but it was still not a bad read. The story continued to be interesting, the plot detailed in a way that keeps you sucked in, waiting to see what comes next. 

I'm interested to see where this series goes in books 3-4, but I can tell you if we don't see more growth from Diem, I might be out.

lachef's review

5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes