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The Coven

Harper L. Woods

3.64 AVERAGE

adventurous dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Kind of terrible but enjoyable. It felt like it jumped around a lot. Would've liked to see more world building and more of the magic system as they were intriguing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Kept me entertained on a 12 hour drive at least
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dark academia setting for witches and vampires attempting to fix deeply ingrained corruption at a magic college. There's a group of vampires and witches who are attempting to accomplish the task, but maybe have different reasons for doing it. Very interesting and I will definitely pick up the second book. 

Our MMC is definitely Morally Black (he is a vampire of course) but I think after book one, he isn't even possibly Morally Gray. 
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was…not for me. It’s fine to have a morally grey or black character, but they HAVE to have some kind of a redeeming quality or else who cares about them? The number of very specific SJM references was completely distracting (Witchling, the Thirteen, stones and bones, like calls to like) I could overlook some of them, but not all together in such a short book.
dark fast-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

3.60
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The story itself was good but the plot was very scattered. I predicted the ending but it still had me gagged little lol. I definitely would not classify this is as romance or dark academia!

I was really intrigued by the FMC’s story and her powers (I really wanted to see how her two different abilities interacted with each other) in the beginning, and by the instant pull of attraction between her and the MMC. This attraction very quickly became lust and showed a very thin line between love and hate, so much so that even as they were flirting it was hard to distinguish between the two. 
The ending felt very rushed as there were like three different plot twists happening right after each other. I guessed the first one, so maybe there could’ve been some misdirections to make it harder to guess? The other two happened almost on top of each other so I wonder if there will be more explanation in the second book.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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