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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
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
Their banter is *chefs kiss*
It’s very obvious that the author took ideas from acotar & tog + vampires. But I still loved it very much. Excited for the next one!
It’s very obvious that the author took ideas from acotar & tog + vampires. But I still loved it very much. Excited for the next one!
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
*SPOILER alert in this review*
After all the enthusiastic reactions I saw about this book on Instagram I was looking forward to reading it.
The first 200 pages of the book were okay, I was interested in the world and I quite liked Saeris as a character.
However I noticed that the story over all didn't really pull me in, there seemed to be little grey in this world the bad guy, King Belikon, was absolutely 100% pure evil, and his daughter Everlayne with no further character development than being absolutely good, was.. 100% good.
The MMC Kingfisher was really rude and unlikeable which I found quite intriguing, even though all his friends kept repeating that he was 'not himself' and something happened to him'' which was kept really vague until like the last 20 pages of the book.
The relationship between him and Saeris wasn't a slow burn but felt more like insta-lust.
At the end of the book I couldn't for the life of me think of one thing that made them fall in love which each other even though they couldn't live without each other!!, and would die for each other!! and other exclamations.
Around 70% in the book I was really considering to DNF but I didn't want to make (probably) the last book I would read this year to be a DNF so I pushed through.
And BOY, did I regret that!
Everything felt hasty and rushed at the end, suddenly there were witches ?? that they really needed to find, which was said to be REALLY difficult, and then without further exploration of the searching party the witches were found like 2 pages later??
Also the ending was badly written, with a bad guy suddenly not being a bad guy and Carrion swifts SECRET identity which came out of nowhere. And the gods who were mentioned for like 2 pages in the beginning also making an appearance for the plot at the end.
One main of the things I really didn't like about the book was the lack of female representation, okay the main character was female but that was about it. In the first 150 pages or so the sister of Kingfisher, Everlayne, makes an appearance but she gets no noticeable characters trait and most of their conversations revolve around Kingfisher.
About halfway through the book a female healer makes an appearance with also no noticeable character traits except to make. what felt like an extremely forced explanation about ''true mating bonds''.
And the part that hated most was there was a female warrior, Danya, who gets absolutely zero character development, gets about 2 seconds of writing time and messes everything up for everyone.
It felt like a boys club with only the FMC as female. Kingfisher, his best friend/ general Renfis being a man, his other friend Lorreth, who also gets a lot of interaction and back story in the book, Carrion Swift, King Belikon, and the other big villain Malcom all guys!
Really the writer couldn't make one interesting female character besides the FMC?
Side note: seriously Malcolm for a bad guy who is presumably 1000 years old and ridiculously strong and ancient??
I regret having read this book and also regret having suggested this to a friend of my to buddy read, I'm sorry!
After all the enthusiastic reactions I saw about this book on Instagram I was looking forward to reading it.
The first 200 pages of the book were okay, I was interested in the world and I quite liked Saeris as a character.
However I noticed that the story over all didn't really pull me in, there seemed to be little grey in this world the bad guy, King Belikon, was absolutely 100% pure evil, and his daughter Everlayne with no further character development than being absolutely good, was.. 100% good.
The MMC Kingfisher was really rude and unlikeable which I found quite intriguing, even though all his friends kept repeating that he was 'not himself' and something happened to him'' which was kept really vague until like the last 20 pages of the book.
The relationship between him and Saeris wasn't a slow burn but felt more like insta-lust.
At the end of the book I couldn't for the life of me think of one thing that made them fall in love which each other even though they couldn't live without each other!!, and would die for each other!! and other exclamations.
Around 70% in the book I was really considering to DNF but I didn't want to make (probably) the last book I would read this year to be a DNF so I pushed through.
And BOY, did I regret that!
Everything felt hasty and rushed at the end, suddenly there were witches ?? that they really needed to find, which was said to be REALLY difficult, and then without further exploration of the searching party the witches were found like 2 pages later??
Also the ending was badly written, with a bad guy suddenly not being a bad guy and Carrion swifts SECRET identity which came out of nowhere. And the gods who were mentioned for like 2 pages in the beginning also making an appearance for the plot at the end.
One main of the things I really didn't like about the book was the lack of female representation, okay the main character was female but that was about it. In the first 150 pages or so the sister of Kingfisher, Everlayne, makes an appearance but she gets no noticeable characters trait and most of their conversations revolve around Kingfisher.
About halfway through the book a female healer makes an appearance with also no noticeable character traits except to make. what felt like an extremely forced explanation about ''true mating bonds''.
And the part that hated most was there was a female warrior, Danya, who gets absolutely zero character development, gets about 2 seconds of writing time and messes everything up for everyone.
It felt like a boys club with only the FMC as female. Kingfisher, his best friend/ general Renfis being a man, his other friend Lorreth, who also gets a lot of interaction and back story in the book, Carrion Swift, King Belikon, and the other big villain Malcom all guys!
Really the writer couldn't make one interesting female character besides the FMC?
Side note: seriously Malcolm for a bad guy who is presumably 1000 years old and ridiculously strong and ancient??
I regret having read this book and also regret having suggested this to a friend of my to buddy read, I'm sorry!
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
interesting turn of events. was entertaining but not really world bending
adventurous
medium-paced
It was okay. Not that good and not that bad. I do love their banter before they got together, though. Btw, Fisher saying Saeris Fane was acting like a BB in heat and something something about wanting to f*ck threw me completley in a loop.
It just didn't fit his character...or is something he would say?
Some of the content is super explicit but using words like c*ck and contemporary words to describe the s*x scenes just made me roll my eyes
It just didn't fit his character...or is something he would say?
Some of the content is super explicit but using words like c*ck and contemporary words to describe the s*x scenes just made me roll my eyes