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carissa230's review
4.0
Torin makes the mistake of trusting Cronus. When Mari shows up in his room he assumes that Cronus actually found a female that Torin can touch without infecting her...wrong. Mari made the agreement with Cronus on the condition that her friend Keeleycael be removed from prison once she has fulfilled her end of the bargain. Unfortunately Cronus has already been beheaded and cannot fulfill his promise...whether he would have or not.
This book begins in prison where he has gone to try and help Mari survive the disease she was infected with by his touch. Across the way is Keeleycael aka The Red Queen. She loves Mari and is devastated when Mari dies. She vows to get her revenge once she is released. Which she has been working on for a century.
Once she gets out they are enemies...for a very short time. She beings to slowly trust that he is sorry for killing Mari and believe that he has her best interest in mind.
I am excited for this series to continue the last two books have not been as exciting as the beginning of the series but hopefully it will get better in the next books.
This book begins in prison where he has gone to try and help Mari survive the disease she was infected with by his touch. Across the way is Keeleycael aka The Red Queen. She loves Mari and is devastated when Mari dies. She vows to get her revenge once she is released. Which she has been working on for a century.
Once she gets out they are enemies...for a very short time. She beings to slowly trust that he is sorry for killing Mari and believe that he has her best interest in mind.
I am excited for this series to continue the last two books have not been as exciting as the beginning of the series but hopefully it will get better in the next books.
piedpipercalls's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
hufsatee's review
3.0
Kind of let down by this one. I wish it didn't feel like a copy-paste of the romance and sex from the previous books. I also expected the leading lady to be a little more...restrained and mature considering who she was.
I've always liked Torin most out of the Lords, just because of the complexity of his character shown through clever cameos in other books. He has been elusive and yet ubiquitous, thoughtful and yet humorous, snarky and yet kind when people needed him to be. I wish I'd not read this book, because now that spell is broken. He just reads like a carbon copy of every other whipped Lord before him. Also, Keely started to become less funny and more immature real fast, like a watered down version of Anya. There can only be one Anya, and she and Lucien remain my absolute faves.
Ofc, William the Randy and Anya were the best part. I'm not really a fan of him/Gilly though. Why does her being 18 suddenly make it fine? He's still so much more mature and she's kind of still a teenager. It's just weird to me.
And can we talk about this thing the Lords do where they inexplicably put some woman they've known like three days above the needs of their fellow Lords whom they've known for CENTURIES?? Like, what happened to bros before hoes? Family?? I wish they didn't all immediately throw down their loyalty the moment a woman caught their eye. And yet they do it, every single one of them.
I've come all this way so I'm going to finish this series if it kills me, but I've lost steam.
Review also at my blog: Bad Geek Reads.
I've always liked Torin most out of the Lords, just because of the complexity of his character shown through clever cameos in other books. He has been elusive and yet ubiquitous, thoughtful and yet humorous, snarky and yet kind when people needed him to be. I wish I'd not read this book, because now that spell is broken. He just reads like a carbon copy of every other whipped Lord before him. Also, Keely started to become less funny and more immature real fast, like a watered down version of Anya. There can only be one Anya, and she and Lucien remain my absolute faves.
Ofc, William the Randy and Anya were the best part. I'm not really a fan of him/Gilly though. Why does her being 18 suddenly make it fine? He's still so much more mature and she's kind of still a teenager. It's just weird to me.
And can we talk about this thing the Lords do where they inexplicably put some woman they've known like three days above the needs of their fellow Lords whom they've known for CENTURIES?? Like, what happened to bros before hoes? Family?? I wish they didn't all immediately throw down their loyalty the moment a woman caught their eye. And yet they do it, every single one of them.
I've come all this way so I'm going to finish this series if it kills me, but I've lost steam.
Review also at my blog: Bad Geek Reads.
astridthebookishsweettooth's review
5.0
How can I not give this a 5 starr. Torin is sweet and funny and Keeley just the same. They are both up there with Paris.
finallywakingup's review
2.0
Usually these books have more plot, this one seemed to have tiny amounts of plot between sex scenes and during the plot scenes the characters were still thinking about sex, it made it all pretty tedious and let down the series for me. Also, I feel like GS forgot how she'd written Torin in the past as the Torin in this book seemed to have a personality transplant and also forget totally the job that he did for the Lords as he wasn't doing his computer tricks for them.