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mybookishdelights's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder
ali_arkanciel's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, and Violence
silvaserendipity's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Bullying
love3v07's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Bullying
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Murder
Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, and Death of parent
juliette_95's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Blood and Death of parent
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Toxic relationship
cosmopolitan's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, and Sexual content
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Death of parent
binzpr's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence
jholt2899's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
After many years, the lost Vega twins have been found. Tory and Darcy thought they were regular teenage girls, but their fate lays tied to the Zodiac calendar, and in their home kingdom of Solaria. New to the world of Fae and elemental magic, the twins have to grapple with finding out their birthright includes wielding all four elements and taking the throne of Solaria as co-queens.
Alright, I'm not going to lie, I expected this to be a lot steamier because it was advertised as so on Booktok. I went into this thinking it was going to be another smut read that required little-to-no plot. I was pretty much wrong on all accounts. There is actually quite a bit of plot and world development in these books. I think they've been advertised poorly, and deserve a little more hype, especially from those that enjoy romantic fantasy/paranormal. Zodiac Academy, while not the world's most premiere literature is entertaining, slow burn (in the romantic department), and extremely sexy despite the lack of steamy scenes.
This series is pretty hefty for a Kindle Unlimited read, but I'm willing to put the energy into these because they still serve as nice palate cleansers without being completely void of any sort of development amongst the story. I'm hoping that the next books in the series will be more of the smutty variety because I was hoping that was what I was getting myself into. P.S. I know the book is advertised as suitable for an older YA audience, and I want to stress that this is most definitely an 18+ book. Even though there is not much sexually explicit content here, it still is a romance that deals with semi-taboo topics and mature content overall.
Rating: 4/5 stars
TW/CW: sexually explicit scenes, harassment, loss of parents, death, blood, inappropriate abuse of power dynamics
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood and Death
Minor: Death of parent
folkofthebook's review against another edition
- 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
If ANY of this appeals to you, get on reading this now!!! Seriously! The plot is great, the characters loveable, there's drama but also I laugh my ass off at the wonderfully ridiculous humor these writers bring to the table.
Seriously I think this series saved me from full-on depression during this pandemic. READ IT!!!!
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Death of parent