3.91 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
slow-paced

This is a note to self to not follow through with books just because they were “available now” and “audiobook” and this especially if the first book was bad. Somehow absolutely nothing happened and the only thing that did was cringey banter that honestly I wouldn’t call banter idk. AIA to anyone that liked this, 

But I think the cringey part was like, was it george Orwell?,  who said don’t use a cliche? And there were so many
adventurous emotional tense slow-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

Have you ever heard of hair dye?
challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

4⭐️
adventurous slow-paced

So, I‘m too lazy to construct a real review, so here are just a few points:
- Why is this a fantasy novel? There is no use of powers anywhere!
- The characters from the last novel had nothing to do. Andy, Lenny and Jax had brief MCU-esque cameos and Kitt had had a few depressing chapters, but nothing else
- How can a book be so fast-paced, yet nothing happens? Seriously, they spend like half the book in the desert.
- The relationship between Paedyn and Kai was nice, I guess, but they always went back and forth, which got annoying
- the ending was good, and the only part I genuinely enjoyed, but couldn’t this just have been act 1 of the book? Cut out all the unnecessary stuff from the rest of the book, easy. This could have been a great duology, but publishers are obsessed with making trilogies, for some reason

I‘m still going to check out the next novel, because the ending genuinely intrigued me

Not good.

How could it end like that- 4.5 stars