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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I had to give this book three stars because it's not poorly written. But it is weighed down with a lot of unresolved baggage from the first book, which gets drawn out for a long time with no resolution. I like a lot of the recurring themes in here like the one about adversaries never letting wounds heal and striking back at each other because they like to bleed. But this book wasn't as strong as it needed to be to match the impact of the first.
Me when Derek introduced himself:
Actually, Derek ended up being my favorite. I also think Aurora's dismissive responses to him were amazing.
I think, SADLY, the book with Derek as a main character would have been more interesting. I hate saying that with so many cool female characters in this book, but an underdog story is always more interesting. That's what made the first book so good. I wish the author had understood that was key to the formula.
I kind of stopped caring about Alyce in this one, which didn't help me. I also don't want her to suffer too much, though, so idk. I think she was the wrong main character for the second book. Yeesh. She is the person who takes so much less action than anyone else.
Man, surprises and twists like boom boom boom.
My first complaint about this book is that the first section is entirely too long. We learn that our main character has been a real ****head for 100 years. Then it just sort of goes on like that.....for a really long time. I have no idea why. Seriously, why did we dwell so long without anything happening?
My second complaint is more of a missed opportunity. I think we needed Aurora's point of view instead of Alyce's.
Another complaint: Alyce and Aurora just spend a lot of time being mad at each other for various things. Alyce never seems to learn anything. Aurora is probably more patient than she should have to be. Alyce refuses to be honest or change her behavior. In the first book, Alyce was a victim of circumstance. She only bit whenever provoked. Her hatred for her lot in life was understandable.
The Alyce of this book is not overwhelmingly possessed by a long-dead Veela to the extent she has no control over her own actions. On the contrary, she is essentially the ruler of the Dark Court. She sets the tone for everyone else's behavior.
If at some point in the last hundred years, she had dialed back the vindictiveness and pointlessness of--for example--displaying heads in their throne room, keeping the graces prisoner, abusing the humans, or destroying the environment for a blood vendetta.... everyone else would have followed her. She's practically a mythological figurative of them. She's their founder. Leadership is giving people direction.
It's hard to care about a woman who went 100 f****** YEARS not waking Aurora and acting like a sulky vindictive teenager about emotional wounds A CENTURY f****** OLD. Just because she doesn't grow old doesn't mean she can't grow the f*** up.
Also the ending. The publisher should have sent it back to the author. Not because it was poorly written, obviously, but because it's wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. F*** this noise.
I HATE THE ENDING SO SO MUCH. LIKE SO MUCH. Luckily I had stopped caring.... have I mentioned at the ending sucks?
Me when Derek introduced himself:
Actually, Derek ended up being my favorite. I also think Aurora's dismissive responses to him were amazing.
I think, SADLY, the book with Derek as a main character would have been more interesting. I hate saying that with so many cool female characters in this book, but an underdog story is always more interesting. That's what made the first book so good. I wish the author had understood that was key to the formula.
I kind of stopped caring about Alyce in this one, which didn't help me. I also don't want her to suffer too much, though, so idk. I think she was the wrong main character for the second book. Yeesh. She is the person who takes so much less action than anyone else.
Man, surprises and twists like boom boom boom.
My first complaint about this book is that the first section is entirely too long. We learn that our main character has been a real ****head for 100 years. Then it just sort of goes on like that.....for a really long time. I have no idea why. Seriously, why did we dwell so long without anything happening?
My second complaint is more of a missed opportunity. I think we needed Aurora's point of view instead of Alyce's.
Another complaint: Alyce and Aurora just spend a lot of time being mad at each other for various things. Alyce never seems to learn anything. Aurora is probably more patient than she should have to be. Alyce refuses to be honest or change her behavior. In the first book, Alyce was a victim of circumstance. She only bit whenever provoked. Her hatred for her lot in life was understandable.
The Alyce of this book is not overwhelmingly possessed by a long-dead Veela to the extent she has no control over her own actions. On the contrary, she is essentially the ruler of the Dark Court. She sets the tone for everyone else's behavior.
If at some point in the last hundred years, she had dialed back the vindictiveness and pointlessness of--for example--displaying heads in their throne room, keeping the graces prisoner, abusing the humans, or destroying the environment for a blood vendetta.... everyone else would have followed her. She's practically a mythological figurative of them. She's their founder. Leadership is giving people direction.
It's hard to care about a woman who went 100 f****** YEARS not waking Aurora and acting like a sulky vindictive teenager about emotional wounds A CENTURY f****** OLD. Just because she doesn't grow old doesn't mean she can't grow the f*** up.
Also the ending. The publisher should have sent it back to the author. Not because it was poorly written, obviously, but because it's wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. F*** this noise.
I HATE THE ENDING SO SO MUCH. LIKE SO MUCH. Luckily I had stopped caring.... have I mentioned at the ending sucks?
It was so bad man I was so excited since the first slapped
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-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
I enjoyed it overall and had a good time reading but it kind of felt like the second book in a trilogy rather than the second in a duology - I wanted more out of the story and the characters by the end as I loved them so much
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-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
dark
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
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
It was very hard to read a book about the dumbest and most annoying main character I have ever read before
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-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
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes