461 reviews for:

Bound to the Shadow Prince

Ruby Dixon

3.74 AVERAGE

vaxette's review

4.0

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Time speeds up for sake of storyline and a few times it seemed like body movements weren't completely thought out, but a quite fabulous read. Could hardly put it down.

abender21's review

3.5

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: No

laurencita's review

4.25

adventurous challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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I feel like they could’ve gone deeper into the plot or emotions or explained more. Maybe split the book into two to give it its time. Like, things happened, but we only grazed the surface with them.

hopekell92's review

2.0

fast-paced

mouch54's review

2.75

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

lizzythefrog's review

0.5

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

audreydshns's review

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: N/A

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J'ai d'abord été attirée par la couverture et le résumé qui annonçait des tropes que j'adore : héritiers ennemies, forcés de vivre dans un même endroit pendant sept ans pour apaiser les dieux, tout cela avec de la magie, je dis oui ! 

 

Je trouve que l'univers est recherché et cohérent et la lecture rapide car la plume de Ruby Dixon est rythmée et fluide. J'ai beaucoup aimé les dialogues et la dynamique entre Candra et Nemeth. Ce sont deux personnages avec leur propre caractère et j'ai aimé l'évolution de leur relation. 

 

J'ai trouvé cependant que l'intrigue et les premières révélations arrivent un tard et que l'aspect "smut" de la romance est un peu trop présent. Le langage est un peu trop cru à mon goût et le rapport de Nemeth avec les contacts physiques ne m'a pas semblé très cohérent aux vues de son histoire. 
 J'aurais voulu en savoir un peu plus sur l'univers des deux protagonistes, leurs différences et les raisons de la guerre mais ce choix est certainement dû au huis clos imposé par leur séjour dans la tour. 

 

La frustration que j'ai ressenti à la fin du tome, pile au moment où les choses deviennent intéressantes était surement l'effet recherché de l'auteure mais j'avoue que c'était très abrupte ! 

Même si je reste mitigée après la lecture de ce premier tome qui met en place la relation fusionnelle des personnages, je pense lire la suite car la base de l'intrigue est très prometteuse et j'espère retrouver cela dans le deuxième tome ! 

mcurtsinger94's review

4.0

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Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC!

I love Ruby Dixon. I did enjoy this book, but there was something missing. I felt so bad for Chandra and was really excited to see her growth. The smut was smutty and I need more of it!

I found Ruby with her Ice Planet Barbarians series, and I was so excited to see he do something different. I'm anxious for the rest of the series

hillary_scholz's review

4.0

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Overall, 3.5 stars. I did like the story, I thought that Candra and Nemeth were compelling characters and I enjoyed seeing Candra grow beyond her “sickly”, spoiled princess character. They go through a lot of struggles and really have to change and adapt to overcome them. There were a fair amount of twists that I wasn’t expecting and that was very enjoyable! However, I do think that the book could’ve been shorter. Ruby had a LOT going on in the book and the world building was very well done. And it could be that this book was so much longer because it absolutely reads as a single book and not a series. With IPB, she has a lot of time to world build however she wants. In this book, it all has to happen here. Overall, I liked the story and characters, but felt like the book could have been shorter.

Tropes: forced proximity, enemies to friends to lovers, virgin MMC, touch her and die, monster/human

Thank you to NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

tortoasa's review

2.5

adventurous emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No