596 reviews for:

The Demon Tide

Laurie Forest

3.77 AVERAGE

itsryder_'s review against another edition

3.5

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I LOVE Forest’s capacity to build on top of a world that she’s already painted such a vivid picture of, and that in my opinion is the evidence of a strong literary master. Forest doesn’t disappoint in the continued storylines, applying her signature style of Ring Theory. I love Forest’s master weaving throughout the whole series thus far, and the Demon Tide is a clever, imaginative example of Lattice Theory and Euclidean Geometry APPLIED IN LITERATURE. Frankly, from one author to another, to apply these concepts seeming so effortlessly into stories is beyond the scope of many traditional authors, and it’s a clever, original concept that I haven’t seen worked into a series since GRRM, Tolkein, and Lewis. 
 I’m astounded by these scathing reviews, berating her sensitivity and careful respect to “fantasy” POC. It’s evident that Forest has utilized sensitivity readers, and as a POC I have no issues with the delivery. I applaud Forest’s lateral messages and undercurrents of challenging social norms. I LOVED Forest’s ability to even bring fresh, lavender-hued light to political issues that range from not just racism, but cover wide expanses like female choice, consent, gender identity, polyamorous relationships, and so much more. Does Forest employ these in her works that toes lines (or simply says screw convention)? Hell yes. And THAT is what makes a revolutionary author in literary history. I’m looking forward to Forest’s continued success and contribution to the literary world. 

alternativehippy's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

arl_99's review against another edition

2.25

dark emotional slow-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

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TBH I DNF at about 90% I just couldn’t get through the last few chapters, I searched for spoilers to see if it was worth it and won’t be coming back for the fifth book unless I see a compelling reason to. It reminded me of zodiac academy and I don’t mean that as a compliment, the story is dragged out way too much, there are a million POV’s and complete chapters of fluff that don’t really do anything for the story.

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Content Warnings

for all her supposed power Elloren is truly one of the most disappointing protagonist I have read, she does absolutely nothing of worth through this series and it’s always the men in her life saving her. As for the love interest, I can handle it going from Lukas to Ivan to Lukas ONCE, but twice? With him dying and Yvan just always casually being there? Not even Miss Mass did that to us. Also, where is aunt Vyvian, she just completely disappeared from the book, I don’t see her being okey with Vogel fasting to elloren and relinquishing being a priest. Anyhow, someone let me know if it’s worth it coming back to book five.

magcrafter's review against another edition

2.0

medium-paced

elgin's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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

kma_425's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lyragalathynius's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional 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: Yes

thelostb00kmark's review against another edition

3.0

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This is probably my least favorite of the series so far. It just felt like it dragged on incessantly, with no end in sight.
With the first few books, it was expected that there would be some world building, and a lot of lead up to any sort of climax. This book felt as if it was trying to embody previous books in the series, but it just came off as repetitive. How long did we have to talk about this love festival for? How long did we have to talk about prejudice for? I genuinely can’t remember what happens at the beginning of this book because it was just so repetitive and unnecessary.
I’m sad about the loss of one of the characters, but I’m also very interested in how Elloren is going to be using these new abilities, and I always liked Yvan better anyway.
Overall, the majority of the book was pretty disappointing, but the last 25% had me on the edge of my seat. I hope the next one is more satisfying.

kmschmitz2's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional 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

octobersmorning's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark 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: Complicated