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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Wasn't really vibing with it, it turned into a captive story and kind of dulled who I thought was going to be a very powerful heroine. I absolutely loved the Vampire one by this author and I just didn't enjoy this one nearly as much.
This was my favorite installment of the series.
I’m usually not a person for a shifter story, so I was a little weary going into this one, but it was so well done that I couldn't help but fall in love with Faelyn and Evander. The development in their relationship as it turned from enemies to friends to lovers was so captivating and it captured my whole heart from the very beginning.
I also really enjoyed the magic system in this book. It was just a breath of fresh air and not something that felt super over done and tedious.
While the twist wasn't really a twist (I think we all saw it coming), I still swooned and obsessed. Honestly, I really loved this story. It was such a strong finale to the series and I couldn't have asked for better.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really enjoyed this book! I felt so many emotions while reading it, it was so fun. I’m so sad to say goodbye to this series and this world.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
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:
No
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
I really like Elise kovas books and have enjoyed the other books in this series. However, I was not a fan of this one. I found the main character annoying, and I couldn’t understand why she was so willing to take on danger and upend her life for a complete stranger who wouldn’t tell her much for a long time. Her dedication to the moon spirit character seemed unfounded. But the real reason I decided to stop listening halfway through is because of how creepy the bad guy is. It may be a good thing to have the bad guy be so obviously problematic, but I didn’t enjoy listening to it. Perhaps it would’ve been better if I was reading the physical book and could skim past the creepy stuff he would say/do, but with listening to an audiobook and my hands busy crafting, I decided to not continue.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Tldr: Boring, no romance, too much horny and sillyness. You CANNOT convince me this was crafted with the same love that a duet with the siren duke was, or any previous installment of this anthology for that matter. DNF it, skip it, I don't reccomend this at all.
How dare the previous installment leave us with primordial gods, the end of the world, a devastatingly haunting ending and narrative thread only to lead into this hot pile of ass which I'm about as enthusiastic towards as I am four day old leftovers with a bit of fuzz on it.
I preface this review with a statement; I have enjoyed Elise Kovas books prior to this and I don't think this is a review to be taken as an assessment of all of her works. I firmly believe that her previous novel in this series, a duet with the siren duke, is beautiful and the ending haunting. She has written some wonderful romantasy novels and I have faith she will do plenty more. However, this was not one of them.
A dawn with the wolf knight was a taxing read, coming into this on the back of about five serious and heavy books dealing with some difficult topics I was ready for a break; and while the prose and pace at which this story kept did keep me in a mind enough to finish it I danced on the edge of a DNF the entire time.
In fact, the one credit I will give to this book is that Kova's prose holds true and kept my attention fully, the near 470 page number flew past me despite my displeasure at much of this novel. That is about it though for all the positives I have to say, so I'm going to just get right into it. Spoilers ahead from this point.
This book was a mess, I will start with the plot; Faelyn tried to save the moon spirit but gets whisked away into the world of the wolves where shes forced into a marriage with the king who is a nasty little fucker. The king has a magical power that makes him irresistible specifically to human women according to page 120 but don't worry about it too much because in page 208 it works on literally everyone?? Just happens to make human women horny I guess. It's inconsistent, why not just have a general thrall ability? Anyways; Faelyn is advised to wank her way into safety from the magical horny thrall and she ends up wanking consistently in the titular knights tent. She finds herself safe from the thrall if she thinks about the knight, then they bone, then they go on a fun little boning excursion, have revelations about how they're soulmates and destined for eachother and love eachother so so much and try to escape with the moon spirit. That goes wrong, but don't worry it's solved like thirty pages later anyways and then the book is over.
This book feels like a fever dream despite me having literally only just finished it. The magic system, which in previous books I've found to be both simple but fleshed out and sensical, follows arbitrary rules and doesn't seem to carry much weight. Outside of the flip flopping on what abilities the wolf king does or doesn't have, the spirits themselves which are supposedly central to the plot do pretty much nothing, they're like Pokémon but shit. The FMC refuses to call upon the spirits as she wishes not to take advantage of them, but calls upon one to hide her sex stink (if you need the magical powers of a spirit to hide the stench you make dear god see an apothecary) and then immediately after calls upon a further more powerful spirit who specifically asked her not to do that to hide the fact she irresponsibly boned and put the lives of everyone in the escape plan at risk. The spirits, when they're not being irresponsibly used despite the whole 'they'll expend their energy and I can't call upon them' hang up that never really seems to impact anything, do about nothing. Instead of sensical uses of their powers and abilities when push comes to shove they do pretty much nothing which just kind of removed the entire benefit of them to the story in the first place.
The romance was awfully done, it's very much insta-love, there's no development of this romance other than damn I can't stop thinking about him when I wank and then damn I can't stop fucking him! Wow we're in love and it turns out you're my soulmate anyways, I'd die for you honey ❤️❤️ like you're serious?? Despite my dislike for a dance with the Fae prince, every single book in this series has carried the romance aspect remarkably well but this one fell so so short of the mark.
Moving into the characters too, the FMC is the silliest heroine to date, utterly naïve and gullible without the ability to make any sensical plans on her own; despite her whole not taking advantage of spirits M.O all she does is summon them unnecessarily so they can do their equally unnecessary magical powers that help just about nobody.
The ending portion felt rushed and unnecessary, because what should've been a final showdown and then a journey through the elf lands to the siren lands to add some nice continuity ended up not happening, only to have a different showdown occur about ten pages later. The way the plot functions is done poorly, you could've shuffled things about and cut nearly 100 pages, because for a close to 500 page novel this remarkably managed to leave no impact on me at all.
Lifeless, romanceless, listless and full of potholes and conveniences, the final installment to the married to magic anthology is about as good as game of thrones ending was, all to say incredibly dissapointing with the quality the previous novels had presented. I wouldn't recommend this book in the slightest, I'd say all previous four entries are better & if this would be the quality moving forward I'm glad it's been put to bed. I understand maybe the author signed on to do five novels in this series and maybe ran out of steam, maybe she had other ideas for a much darker story that was turned down by publishers, I truly don't know what happened here but the end result is as inspiring as a void.
How dare the previous installment leave us with primordial gods, the end of the world, a devastatingly haunting ending and narrative thread only to lead into this hot pile of ass which I'm about as enthusiastic towards as I am four day old leftovers with a bit of fuzz on it.
I preface this review with a statement; I have enjoyed Elise Kovas books prior to this and I don't think this is a review to be taken as an assessment of all of her works. I firmly believe that her previous novel in this series, a duet with the siren duke, is beautiful and the ending haunting. She has written some wonderful romantasy novels and I have faith she will do plenty more. However, this was not one of them.
A dawn with the wolf knight was a taxing read, coming into this on the back of about five serious and heavy books dealing with some difficult topics I was ready for a break; and while the prose and pace at which this story kept did keep me in a mind enough to finish it I danced on the edge of a DNF the entire time.
In fact, the one credit I will give to this book is that Kova's prose holds true and kept my attention fully, the near 470 page number flew past me despite my displeasure at much of this novel. That is about it though for all the positives I have to say, so I'm going to just get right into it. Spoilers ahead from this point.
This book was a mess, I will start with the plot; Faelyn tried to save the moon spirit but gets whisked away into the world of the wolves where shes forced into a marriage with the king who is a nasty little fucker. The king has a magical power that makes him irresistible specifically to human women according to page 120 but don't worry about it too much because in page 208 it works on literally everyone?? Just happens to make human women horny I guess. It's inconsistent, why not just have a general thrall ability? Anyways; Faelyn is advised to wank her way into safety from the magical horny thrall and she ends up wanking consistently in the titular knights tent. She finds herself safe from the thrall if she thinks about the knight, then they bone, then they go on a fun little boning excursion, have revelations about how they're soulmates and destined for eachother and love eachother so so much and try to escape with the moon spirit. That goes wrong, but don't worry it's solved like thirty pages later anyways and then the book is over.
This book feels like a fever dream despite me having literally only just finished it. The magic system, which in previous books I've found to be both simple but fleshed out and sensical, follows arbitrary rules and doesn't seem to carry much weight. Outside of the flip flopping on what abilities the wolf king does or doesn't have, the spirits themselves which are supposedly central to the plot do pretty much nothing, they're like Pokémon but shit. The FMC refuses to call upon the spirits as she wishes not to take advantage of them, but calls upon one to hide her sex stink (if you need the magical powers of a spirit to hide the stench you make dear god see an apothecary) and then immediately after calls upon a further more powerful spirit who specifically asked her not to do that to hide the fact she irresponsibly boned and put the lives of everyone in the escape plan at risk. The spirits, when they're not being irresponsibly used despite the whole 'they'll expend their energy and I can't call upon them' hang up that never really seems to impact anything, do about nothing. Instead of sensical uses of their powers and abilities when push comes to shove they do pretty much nothing which just kind of removed the entire benefit of them to the story in the first place.
The romance was awfully done, it's very much insta-love, there's no development of this romance other than damn I can't stop thinking about him when I wank and then damn I can't stop fucking him! Wow we're in love and it turns out you're my soulmate anyways, I'd die for you honey ❤️❤️ like you're serious?? Despite my dislike for a dance with the Fae prince, every single book in this series has carried the romance aspect remarkably well but this one fell so so short of the mark.
Moving into the characters too, the FMC is the silliest heroine to date, utterly naïve and gullible without the ability to make any sensical plans on her own; despite her whole not taking advantage of spirits M.O all she does is summon them unnecessarily so they can do their equally unnecessary magical powers that help just about nobody.
The ending portion felt rushed and unnecessary, because what should've been a final showdown and then a journey through the elf lands to the siren lands to add some nice continuity ended up not happening, only to have a different showdown occur about ten pages later. The way the plot functions is done poorly, you could've shuffled things about and cut nearly 100 pages, because for a close to 500 page novel this remarkably managed to leave no impact on me at all.
Lifeless, romanceless, listless and full of potholes and conveniences, the final installment to the married to magic anthology is about as good as game of thrones ending was, all to say incredibly dissapointing with the quality the previous novels had presented. I wouldn't recommend this book in the slightest, I'd say all previous four entries are better & if this would be the quality moving forward I'm glad it's been put to bed. I understand maybe the author signed on to do five novels in this series and maybe ran out of steam, maybe she had other ideas for a much darker story that was turned down by publishers, I truly don't know what happened here but the end result is as inspiring as a void.