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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“I’d be your king, but always your servant. Never your keeper.”🥹
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really enjoyed this duology. This book offered multiple perspectives and I love how the supporting characters in book one really became part of the main cast of characters by the end. Previous duologies that I've read felt like one book split into two, but these each had their own unique storyline and focus in the context of the bigger story. I enjoyed the second book even better than the first, and I love how the story turned out. I am looking forward to reading more of Rachel Gillig's works.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
You are the Shepherd King—the author of everything I have ever known. You wrote Blunder’s history, Aemmory Percyval Taxus. Now rewrite it.
I LOOOOVEEEDDD IT! Such an upgrade to the first book! The multiple POVs really helped, apparently I didn't dislike the first book, I just disliked Elspeth lol.
I read this on a summer vacation on the beach, yet every time I started reading it I got immersed in the gothic foggy woods vibes immediately. The author does a wonderful job with the setting. I loooveeedd the Nightmare, he was my favorite character by far in both of the books, and I was so happy that he was incorporated into the story in the second book as much as he was.
The only reason this is a 4.75 and not a 5 star for me is my personal preference for the amount of romance scenes (my preference is none).
I had a "predictable plot twists" complaint for the first book, maybe it is the lack of Elspeth commentary in the second book but there were less of these.
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
In the First book Elspeth was the main character and a good one at that, but in this book she is completely ignored and becomes useless to the story. She is only used to show the Shepherd king's tragic backstory and those memories are not even that relevant to the story
And what the hell was going on with Elm and Ione, they were so unnecessary to the main plot and it felt like they were just wasting time, like you could skip entire chapters of them and you will not miss anything about the main plot. And everytime something intresting happened with plot and we would skip to these two doing some useless shit for no reason and it became irritating very quickly
Also in this book the author decided that now Ravyn and Elm were the main characters and Elspeth is going to be a useless damsel in distress that needs to saved by the hero
This book failed to do justice to either of the main couples because it tried to cram them into one book without actually giving them any depth or growth, if we had more prespectives chapters from Elspeth instead of Elm and focused more on the character that are doing things to advance the actual plot this book would have been so much better
And what the hell was going on with Elm and Ione, they were so unnecessary to the main plot and it felt like they were just wasting time, like you could skip entire chapters of them and you will not miss anything about the main plot. And everytime something intresting happened with plot and we would skip to these two doing some useless shit for no reason and it became irritating very quickly
Also in this book the author decided that now Ravyn and Elm were the main characters and Elspeth is going to be a useless damsel in distress that needs to saved by the hero
This book failed to do justice to either of the main couples because it tried to cram them into one book without actually giving them any depth or growth, if we had more prespectives chapters from Elspeth instead of Elm and focused more on the character that are doing things to advance the actual plot this book would have been so much better
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-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:
No