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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
medium-paced
The book is enjoyable but it does feel like the characters info dump a lot, not talking in a way that would be normal.
Reviews discouraged me by bringing up stuff I can't stand. Includes spoilers, so won't list them here
DNF at 33%. I know, I know, I shouldn’t be reviewing a book that I didn’t finish reading, but I could not get this story. The FMC is snarky and doesn’t have any tact when it comes to dangerous situations (read: being sarcastic and snarky with the wolf god she meets) and is constantly running her mouth when she should just be QUIET and listen. I think she even says at one point that her mouth will get her in trouble. In this case, her mouth made me want to stop reading. The antagonists are all unlikeable, except for maybe Jaxson, but even then I really can’t figure out a way that someone who bullied and tormented her for over a decade could turn into a love interest. Had to stop reading because I could not see where any of the love interests could be taken seriously in the end and there was just too much going on for me to really feel connected to the story.
I binged this book honestly. The first couple chapters were slow (as any new series) but man oh man was I sucked in. The chemistry between the Shadow beast and the heroine is DEEP and I cannot wait to binge the others.
If you’re looking for a Morally gray, possessive and A-hole of a love interest, with a sassy and independent female lead, this is your book!
If you’re looking for a Morally gray, possessive and A-hole of a love interest, with a sassy and independent female lead, this is your book!
I’m late to the ‘Shadow Beast’ train but I’m so glad I finally read it off my TBR list! I wish I started the book sooner! BOY this book was freakin AMAZING!!! This book had you cackling, swooning, and rooting for the bad-ass heroine Mera is! Mera is soooo funny and shadow is deff my fav. I like Jackson but something has me rooting for shadow. The names are so vanilla but you just love them. Because of the simplicity of the name you don’t think too much. The world that was built is freaking amazing! You must read this book. Now to start book 2!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I am once again asking authors to stop conventionally publishing fanfiction.
"Never waste time on bad books. There were too many amazing stories out there waiting to be discovered."
Well, I took the author's advice and gave up on this pile of flaming, unapologetic garbage.
My gripes are numerous. Let's begin.
1. The main character has no clear or consistent personality. I don't believe her motivations for basically anything she does. Her "sassy" dialogue is at odds with the entire set-up of the story, and we're not given any information to believe that she would behave this way, except an insistence that this is in line with her character every time she's about to say something "clever" (spoiler: it's not clever). It's so all over the place. The author missed the "show, don't tell" tenet of storytelling.
2. The behavior of the other pack members makes absolutely no sense. Even the reason they're so cruel to Mera is held up by the flimsiest premise. Like, ok, you want your main character to be mercilessly bullied because of the sins of her father, cool, great, groovy! Please come up with a cohesive and consistent set-up for this circumstance. As is, it reads like a middle schooler wrote about how they imagine adults being bullies would go, with extra extra swearing, because why not. In fact, if you told me a 14-year-old had written this, the entire book would make more sense.
3. Everything that happens with the Shadow Beast is like if Beauty and the Beast and all of SJM's books had an orgy they were later very ashamed of.
4. The rejected mate premise was so weirdly handled. The person doing the rejecting should have been the opposite if we are expected to believe the premise of the book, but as previously mentioned, there is no consistency in character personality or behavior so I guess any character does whatever, whenever, for no particular reason! Rad!
5. A lot of the early conflict relies on very lazy, gendered insult slinging, including on the part of the main character, who engages in a fair bit of sl*t-shaming as a "clever" insult (but then later regales us with lots of internal monologues about how sexual she is? Wut?). Just... Do better.
6. I can't believe I'm saying this, considering every other word out of my mouth is the F-word, but the swearing was honestly just distracting. It did not make the main character feel authentic. It made it feel like the author was *trying* to make the main character feel authentic. More strategic use of profanity would have been better.
I could go on with the myriad other issues I had with this, but I'll leave off here. Skip this travesty and go read some fanfiction.
"Never waste time on bad books. There were too many amazing stories out there waiting to be discovered."
Well, I took the author's advice and gave up on this pile of flaming, unapologetic garbage.
My gripes are numerous. Let's begin.
1. The main character has no clear or consistent personality. I don't believe her motivations for basically anything she does. Her "sassy" dialogue is at odds with the entire set-up of the story, and we're not given any information to believe that she would behave this way, except an insistence that this is in line with her character every time she's about to say something "clever" (spoiler: it's not clever). It's so all over the place. The author missed the "show, don't tell" tenet of storytelling.
2. The behavior of the other pack members makes absolutely no sense. Even the reason they're so cruel to Mera is held up by the flimsiest premise. Like, ok, you want your main character to be mercilessly bullied because of the sins of her father, cool, great, groovy! Please come up with a cohesive and consistent set-up for this circumstance. As is, it reads like a middle schooler wrote about how they imagine adults being bullies would go, with extra extra swearing, because why not. In fact, if you told me a 14-year-old had written this, the entire book would make more sense.
3. Everything that happens with the Shadow Beast is like if Beauty and the Beast and all of SJM's books had an orgy they were later very ashamed of.
4. The rejected mate premise was so weirdly handled. The person doing the rejecting should have been the opposite if we are expected to believe the premise of the book, but as previously mentioned, there is no consistency in character personality or behavior so I guess any character does whatever, whenever, for no particular reason! Rad!
5. A lot of the early conflict relies on very lazy, gendered insult slinging, including on the part of the main character, who engages in a fair bit of sl*t-shaming as a "clever" insult (but then later regales us with lots of internal monologues about how sexual she is? Wut?). Just... Do better.
6. I can't believe I'm saying this, considering every other word out of my mouth is the F-word, but the swearing was honestly just distracting. It did not make the main character feel authentic. It made it feel like the author was *trying* to make the main character feel authentic. More strategic use of profanity would have been better.
I could go on with the myriad other issues I had with this, but I'll leave off here. Skip this travesty and go read some fanfiction.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes