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alyssasaurus's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Cursing
Moderate: Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Cannibalism, Confinement, and Death
Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy
michellemaas's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
First read: 5 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Second read: 4.5 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
No thoughts, just a few incoherent sentences.
Poppy being a morally gray badass gives me life.
Casteel losing her and freaking on the battlefield tugged at my stone cold heart.
Poppy, Casteel, Kieran is the trio to end all trios and if there is not a threesome soon I will burst.
The plot finally came together (and it has been a LONG time coming).
I liked that neither the Atlantians nor the Ascended were innocent. Oftentimes authors pick a side when really no one is innocent during a war. There are quite a few things that Jennifer L. Armentrout does that sets her apart from others (that I already discussed in previous reviews so I won't repeat it) but just know that she's really good at her job.
Book 4: The War of Two Queens cannot come soon enough!
Second read: 4.5 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
No thoughts, just a few incoherent sentences.
Poppy being a morally gray badass gives me life.
Casteel losing her and freaking on the battlefield tugged at my stone cold heart.
Poppy, Casteel, Kieran is the trio to end all trios and if there is not a threesome soon I will burst.
The plot finally came together (and it has been a LONG time coming).
I liked that neither the Atlantians nor the Ascended were innocent. Oftentimes authors pick a side when really no one is innocent during a war. There are quite a few things that Jennifer L. Armentrout does that sets her apart from others (that I already discussed in previous reviews so I won't repeat it) but just know that she's really good at her job.
Book 4: The War of Two Queens cannot come soon enough!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Cursing, Death, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
studytea's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual content
Minor: Child death and Death of parent
ninaakh's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
The plot and characters are great, but there's also smut, so read it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, and War
Moderate: Blood, Child death, Kidnapping, and Death
Minor: Grief
sierraechobravo's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence
somberliving's review against another edition
I couldn’t get over a number of things.
The constant, unnecessary sex scenes. So many. At least one a chapter. And they were always the same thing? I love a good steamy scene, but you get to a point where you skip it because you know it’ll just be a mirror of the scene from last chapter.
The insufferable obsession of the main character by the love interest. It’s cheesy to the point that I hate them instead of ship/love them.
The cheesy/cliche trope of everyone being impressed by the main character. I get it, P is surprisingly powerful, but her words, choices, actions, and looks are always praised as being perfect. It’s unrealistic and makes every character interaction predictable.
The fact that nothing happens. Is Armentrout even following a plot or is she just trying to increase the amount of books published, thereby increasing the amount of money she makes out of this series? 41% done and I swear nothing has happened except the thing that was so painfully obvious if you were paying any bit of attention in the last book. Also, this all should have happened in the last book- I don’t even count this as part of the plot of this one.
Overall - unimpressed. Cliche. Only gets the hype because of the sex scenes (I wouldn’t even call them steamy because they happen so often the magic is lost). Would not recommend unless you’ve never read a book before.
The constant, unnecessary sex scenes. So many. At least one a chapter. And they were always the same thing? I love a good steamy scene, but you get to a point where you skip it because you know it’ll just be a mirror of the scene from last chapter.
The insufferable obsession of the main character by the love interest. It’s cheesy to the point that I hate them instead of ship/love them.
The cheesy/cliche trope of everyone being impressed by the main character. I get it, P is surprisingly powerful, but her words, choices, actions, and looks are always praised as being perfect. It’s unrealistic and makes every character interaction predictable.
The fact that nothing happens. Is Armentrout even following a plot or is she just trying to increase the amount of books published, thereby increasing the amount of money she makes out of this series? 41% done and I swear nothing has happened except the thing that was so painfully obvious if you were paying any bit of attention in the last book. Also, this all should have happened in the last book- I don’t even count this as part of the plot of this one.
Overall - unimpressed. Cliche. Only gets the hype because of the sex scenes (I wouldn’t even call them steamy because they happen so often the magic is lost). Would not recommend unless you’ve never read a book before.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual content, Murder, Kidnapping, and Violence
Minor: Grief
nadiana's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
1.4 stars
Everything just falls into the lap of the main character. Wanna marry a husband who would kill his own family for you even though you've barely gotten to know each other? Be my guest. Want to become queen of Antarctica? Take the fucking crown and get really aggressive and self-righteous if anyone in the kingdom ever objects. Want to be a literal God? Here! Have it and all of the combined powers of the world! Jesus Christ is this ever a horribly bad self-insert fanfiction.
Also this book is very dialogue heavy when it definitely doesn't have to be. By the time one character spends 10 pages explaining something to our Y/N insert you could've just as easily explained it through action, not dialogue. And wanna know what the crazy thing is? You still have no idea what is happening to the plot 99.9% of the time even though information is practically being spoon-fed to you. I thought Gods and deities were synonymous but apparently, plot twist, they're not???
//Author's note: The MC is not just a deity, she's a God... okay!! Get that through your thick skulls! Gods are more epic and cool and they glow silver and there're Gods who are even above other Gods but Y/N is a descendent of those Gods too so she's like the most powerful being out there. And oh, she has a dragon army now and can bring people from the dead//
Casanova Steele is still as annoying as ever and Poopy does whatever the plot calls her to do. More things happened in this book compared to the last, however, which is why I'm giving it a slightly higher score than the previous installment in the series.
I'm so happy Audible has a refund option bc I really did not enjoy this book for the right reasons. I loved to hate it, I loved to imagine how the book could've been even slightly better than what was presented to me, and for that, I'll give this book some props. Some average-rated 5-star prediction books haven't come close to garnering this much passion out of me. Is it better written than average-garbage ACOMAF? No, but it's hella enjoyable to make fun of.
Everything just falls into the lap of the main character.
Also this book is very dialogue heavy when it definitely doesn't have to be. By the time one character spends 10 pages explaining something to our Y/N insert you could've just as easily explained it through action, not dialogue. And wanna know what the crazy thing is? You still have no idea what is happening to the plot 99.9% of the time even though information is practically being spoon-fed to you. I thought Gods and deities were synonymous but apparently, plot twist, they're not???
//Author's note: The MC is not just a deity, she's a God... okay!! Get that through your thick skulls! Gods are more epic and cool and they glow silver and there're Gods who are even above other Gods but Y/N is a descendent of those Gods too so she's like the most powerful being out there. And oh, she has a dragon army now and can bring people from the dead//
Casanova Steele is still as annoying as ever and Poopy does whatever the plot calls her to do. More things happened in this book compared to the last, however, which is why I'm giving it a slightly higher score than the previous installment in the series.
I'm so happy Audible has a refund option bc I really did not enjoy this book for the right reasons. I loved to hate it, I loved to imagine how the book could've been even slightly better than what was presented to me, and for that, I'll give this book some props. Some average-rated 5-star prediction books haven't come close to garnering this much passion out of me. Is it better written than average-garbage ACOMAF? No, but it's hella enjoyable to make fun of.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment and Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse
aenidpons's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence
baexlee's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
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
2.25
I had really high hopes for this book. When I first got it delivered I actually waited until I finished my re-read of the first two books in the series before I started because I enjoyed those so much. While overall I enjoyed reading this and it was a continuation of the story, it felt like a downgrade from what I had been enjoying previously. Perhaps it was the mindset that I was going into it with, but overall the plot feels convoluted and confusing and some of the character choices are difficult to reconcile with the idea of them I had from previous installments like Casteel deciding to Ascend Poppy, risks be damned, when she was killed being freed from the Unseen, and he despite his hatred for the Ascended he would kill anyone who tried to kill her even if she was no longer the same? It felt so out of character and it is explained away with Heartmates which is also weakly explained and followed through with. The impact just isn't there.
Nothing feels planned out at all, and the twists feel like they were decided as they were happening and it really just leaves me wanting more. There are some glaring editing errors that just made me feel like the entire thing was rushed (if you want an example of what I'm talking about look at the contradiction that is written one sentence after something is stated on page 639) This installment honestly feels almost wholly separate from the other installments in the series in some ways. It does manage to shine in other regards though.
The main reason that I don't give this a rating lower than a 2 is that the romance is still steamy and Poppy and Casteel still manage to steal my breath away, which is always a redeeming factor, and in addition to that the relationship between Poppy and the wolven is interesting and developed. There was enough that reminded me of the previous installments, well planted call backs and genuinely laugh out loud heart warming moments that I have hope the story can be redeemed in later installments, but as it currently stands I'm nervous to see where Poppy's Crown will take her.
Nothing feels planned out at all, and the twists feel like they were decided as they were happening and it really just leaves me wanting more. There are some glaring editing errors that just made me feel like the entire thing was rushed (if you want an example of what I'm talking about look at the contradiction that is written one sentence after something is stated on page 639) This installment honestly feels almost wholly separate from the other installments in the series in some ways. It does manage to shine in other regards though.
The main reason that I don't give this a rating lower than a 2 is that the romance is still steamy and Poppy and Casteel still manage to steal my breath away, which is always a redeeming factor, and in addition to that the relationship between Poppy and the wolven is interesting and developed. There was enough that reminded me of the previous installments, well planted call backs and genuinely laugh out loud heart warming moments that I have hope the story can be redeemed in later installments, but as it currently stands I'm nervous to see where Poppy's Crown will take her.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, and Sexual content
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
Minor: Torture and Infidelity
mybookthrone's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Gore, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Torture, and Confinement
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Grief, and Cursing
Minor: Physical abuse and Child death