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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
What did I read?
Nothing of the blurb gives away that this story is actually set in modern day New England, complete with smartphones and SUVs. Made me halt when I started reading. Then when she’s at the school, there is no reason to think that we are in modern times (no mention of anything more modern than paper - including letter openers). So setting was already an issue for me that made no real sense. But I guess authors choice, whatever, fine.
Now characters. There wasn’t much relation between characters from the FMC to others. Well, besides lusting over the age-old school director. Which in itself is already problematic.
And last, the plot. Um, what plot? Some revenge served with a side dish of, oh, the dirty deed. Maybe I was not paying enough attentional the „actual“ plotting and scheming but the finale came out of nowhere and I still don’t know what happened. I was way too confused as to how it ended up as it is, and not in a good way.
Nothing of the blurb gives away that this story is actually set in modern day New England, complete with smartphones and SUVs. Made me halt when I started reading. Then when she’s at the school, there is no reason to think that we are in modern times (no mention of anything more modern than paper - including letter openers). So setting was already an issue for me that made no real sense. But I guess authors choice, whatever, fine.
Now characters. There wasn’t much relation between characters from the FMC to others. Well, besides lusting over the age-old school director. Which in itself is already problematic.
And last, the plot. Um, what plot? Some revenge served with a side dish of, oh, the dirty deed. Maybe I was not paying enough attentional the „actual“ plotting and scheming but the finale came out of nowhere and I still don’t know what happened. I was way too confused as to how it ended up as it is, and not in a good way.
The Coven takes us to Salem where the Creepy bony coven witches force Willow to join their school as she is the last earth witch sending headmaster thorn to go claim her, Willow will reluctantly go as she has other intentions once there.
What I loved
What I loved
Ok I guess I just can't read this author. I got through 2.5 of the Of Flesh and Bones series books before I threw in the towel. Honestly I wish I'd stopped after book one. A lesson learned and I will not be making that mistake again.
Can we just not have an MMC that isn't
...creepy?
...ridiculously old and for some reason obsessed with an extremely naive and vulnerable very young woman (16 in this case)?
..."touch her and die" vibes but to the absolute extreme? I mean, we can have a bit of nuance.
And YES I understand these are tropes, and I've read acotar and was somehow okay with it then, but the vibes are OFF in this one.
The plot did not make sense. We've got witches. Cool. We've got Vessels aka vampires that need to feed on and are apparently obsessed with the witches. We've got a special type of witch called a "sex witch" which the author for some reason feels the need to tell us there is one particular sex witch that hates being touched. FMC says "wow that must be tough" and sex witch is like "YUP." Cool cool cool love being painted a picture where a character is forced to have sex all the time and hate it! This wasn't even a main or side character. Just some rando. Why was that necessary information?
The academia component barely comes into play, so don't have dark, sexy Harry Potter in mind when you start this. The other students do not matter. And somehow the headmaster of the school has a ton of time to just go around stalking this one 16yo student. He has NOTHING better to do. Okay.
There was also one of the most unnecessarily gruesome scenes I've ever read in this book. Absolutely gratuitous, shock value, traumatize the main character BS.
We were warned about the dubcon in the TWs so I won't really touch on that. But. Yeah this book gave me the creeps and there wasn't even enough
Can we just not have an MMC that isn't
...creepy?
...ridiculously old and for some reason obsessed with an extremely naive and vulnerable very young woman (16 in this case)?
..."touch her and die" vibes but to the absolute extreme? I mean, we can have a bit of nuance.
And YES I understand these are tropes, and I've read acotar and was somehow okay with it then, but the vibes are OFF in this one.
The plot did not make sense. We've got witches. Cool. We've got Vessels aka vampires that need to feed on and are apparently obsessed with the witches. We've got a special type of witch called a "sex witch" which the author for some reason feels the need to tell us there is one particular sex witch that hates being touched. FMC says "wow that must be tough" and sex witch is like "YUP." Cool cool cool love being painted a picture where a character is forced to have sex all the time and hate it! This wasn't even a main or side character. Just some rando. Why was that necessary information?
The academia component barely comes into play, so don't have dark, sexy Harry Potter in mind when you start this. The other students do not matter. And somehow the headmaster of the school has a ton of time to just go around stalking this one 16yo student. He has NOTHING better to do. Okay.
There was also one of the most unnecessarily gruesome scenes I've ever read in this book. Absolutely gratuitous, shock value, traumatize the main character BS.
We were warned about the dubcon in the TWs so I won't really touch on that. But. Yeah this book gave me the creeps and there wasn't even enough
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
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:
Complicated
2,5⭐
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