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nloprest6318's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
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? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
brooketreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-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? Yes
3.0
Conflicting feelings on this one. Overall, I enjoyed the overall plot and the two main characters. I was invested in Dianna and Liam’s slow burn romance. I love Liam. However, the only spice we got in this book I could have done without, because honestly it just felt unsatisfying… like this is not what they deserved after what they had been through in this book up to that point. The ending I saw coming, maybe not in the exact way it happened, but I feel like everyone had to know it was going to happen.
This felt too long. I also felt like too much was going on. There’s too many people to keep track of and too many places they went. I felt like I should have been reading this with a whiteboard of characters and places. I didn’t always feel I had a clear picture of the setting. I felt like there were plot holes and things just thrown in to further the plot. Such as Tobias having the ability to re-animate the dead. I don’t recall it being mentioned before the tomb raider scene.
I will say I did jump straight into book two. So, take from this review what you will.
Some of my favorite notes:
“Grand Estate?” I sighed, mostly to myself. “Oh, fancy. I guess it’s a good thing we brought our party clothes.” LOL!
(Context: Dianna to Liam. They had just gone through a horrible crash and then a fight. They looked terrible.)
When Liam was fighting Tobias and he has raised the dead and they all stopped and patted themselves 🧐 umm ok
Dianna drinking Liam’s blood 😂 very Edward drinking Bella. I imagine Dianna with that same crazy look 😂
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent and War
There may be more. If I remember any, I’ll add them.bangiebangs's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
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? Yes
4.0
4*
- ends on cliffhanger (unfinished trilogy/series)
- spice: 3/5 (only bc there were so few scenes, but those were excellent and worth the wait)
This had been on my TBR for a while and I finally started reading it because an author I follow loved it. Have to admit, I almost DNF’d this because it took me forever to get into the story. Not sure why but for the first quarter I wasn’t sure I knew what was going on, or cared too much either.
That said, once I got into it, boy was I into it! I knew this was an E2L story so I was excited to see how that would happen. But this isn’t even the best part (though that slow burn, hmmmm delicious!), I thought the world-building was just excellent. I still don’t totally get how one world “fell” into another or what happened to that first world exactly (it seems to still exist? Or is that another planet?) but it seems to make sense most of the time. I just think of it as continents, basically.
I really liked that the villain here is the FMC, which is somewhat unusual. And if she is bad, you really dislike her – she is not just a little villainous for show, she is a mass murderer. It does make sense that some of the other characters are not exactly willing to overlook that. If you’re a Nesta fan, you’ll probably like Dianna, though.
I think in places the antagonism and self-hate may have been a little overdone, but overall, it worked. The MMC also has his fair share of self-loathing to carry, and we get a good view into depression and recovery from different points of view, and different kinds of depression. I thought that was done really well.
Other than that, you get the usual fantasy bodies that are flat and muscled and whatnot with the endless thick shlong you expect (getting a tad tired of this, ngl, just give me a realistic body every once in a while, not this “hulking guy plus petite woman” porn-ish thing), and if I read “you need to be ready” and “he fed me his dick inch by inch until finally seated fully blah blah never felt so full” I might abandon ship.
So tl;dr, the book picked up significantly in the second half for me, and I immediately started reading the next one. The cliffhanger was only bearable bc book 2 is already out, but otherwise I would have been in pain. Best wait until the next (last?) one is out if an unfinished series is not your flavor of masochism ;)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder
sarahjanehayes's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail
radiantgeode's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail
zias's review against another edition
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, and War
jen_sten's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and War
booksalacarte's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
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? Yes
3.0
3⭐️ 2🌶️
Badass/morally grey FMC
Enemies to lovers
Slow burn
Forced proximity
One bed
Quest
Forbidden romance
Fight scenes
Dragons
🏳️🌈 rep
Cliffhanger
Seems to be dual POV. The beginning started off with interesting world building and introduced us to the FMC. The magic is interesting. I have to admit that I’m still confused about quite a bit, but I’m thankful that the magic doesn’t look like every other romantasy out there. I think it was a little clogged in its delivery.
Badass/morally grey FMC
Enemies to lovers
Slow burn
Forced proximity
One bed
Quest
Forbidden romance
Fight scenes
Dragons
🏳️🌈 rep
Cliffhanger
Seems to be dual POV. The beginning started off with interesting world building and introduced us to the FMC. The magic is interesting. I have to admit that I’m still confused about quite a bit, but I’m thankful that the magic doesn’t look like every other romantasy out there. I think it was a little clogged in its delivery.
A god with PTSD…Liam/Samkiel a different kind of male main character. I applaud even if his character does feel like Thor after Endgame. He was fully flushed and by far the character holding the book together.
The slowest burn. Goodness gracious. They go from enemies-to-pretty much lovers, but not quite.
I didn’t enjoy how often things were repeated. Prose and stories told, in full, more than once. I found myself going, “yeah, yeah, yeah… I’ve heard this before.” It was really annoying. Then to just have to go through it again in the other POV. Yikes. The dialogue was also cringeworthy. Some of the general conversations were just not at all realistic in the way character spoke to each other and word choices.
The nature of Dianna was so immature when she wasn’t fighting. She is supposed to be almost a thousand years old? She acted like her emotional growth stopped in her early 20’s. She was written very YA. I wanted her to fight more so I didn’t have to deal with her immaturity.
The stakes felt high, until you read the line, “weeks later”… multiple times. Then you start wondering what the hell people are doing for those weeks! Nothing helpful or plot moving. Just twiddling their thumbs? I don’t want to be in the same PoV and suddenly have a plot blackout for weeks!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
haleyc00k's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
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? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
booksthatburn's review against another edition
The opening pages have a bizarrely dense infodump between two enemies which seems entirely performed for the sake of giving info to the reader, not because the characters actually need to say these lines to each other.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Genocide and War