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adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Sexual content
adventurous
dark
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:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood
Minor: Sexual content
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder
Minor: Sexual content
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I have way too many thoughts about this book, and no, most of them are not positive 🙃
All in all, the plot was pretty decent, a few interesting twists that I didn't see coming. Our morally grey protagonist is an interesting character with a decent amount of depth in being caring but also short-tempered and destructive. However, every other character is pretty one-dimensional. Liam is maybe one and a half dimensions, but his character growth feels clunky and forced.
I would maybe be interested in reading the next book if the writing wasn't so horrible. The book is riddled with typos and repeat sentences.
My favourite typo? "But you saved me." "Barley."
I legit laughed out loud. This is no time to talk about whole grains.
Anyway, the book swaps between first person POV from Dianna and from Liam. They have unique voices in dialogue, but their internal monologues sound so similar that I often forgot whose chapter I was in. Not only that, but each of them are far too omniscient. Things like Dianna stating that her eyes are glowing red (without being able to see that they are) or Liam stating that Dianna "tried, and failed, to nod" when he has no idea what her intentions are to try and do. I feel like the author should've just gone for a 3rd person POV so she could detail everything she wanted. It was hard to connect with the characters when so much of the description relies on what they see (or the characters staying how others are seeing them, without actually knowing) instead of focusing on what those characters feel. Even things like scenery descriptions feel like they've been thrown in as an afterthought.
Lastly, it only happens a couple of times, but the writing jumps between past tense and present tense in the middle of paragraphs. Not doing that is just basic writing 101.
Also, I just didn't feel that the FMC and MMC had a strong relationship arc. The MMC does have this kinda formal language barrier thing going on for the first half of the book, which kinda inhibits a lot of chemistry. And I think the author was going for a bit of grumpy/sunshine duo but I dunno I just didn't feel like they had chemistry even into the later parts of the book. I didn't see any inciting event for them to start to like each other. I guess they're each super hot and it's hard to spend that much time around another hot person without falling for them? We all know true love is built on looks, with just a dash of personality.
So yes. I have a lot of gripes about the quality of writing, and a lot less about the plot itself. But I just couldn't get into this one.
All in all, the plot was pretty decent, a few interesting twists that I didn't see coming. Our morally grey protagonist is an interesting character with a decent amount of depth in being caring but also short-tempered and destructive. However, every other character is pretty one-dimensional. Liam is maybe one and a half dimensions, but his character growth feels clunky and forced.
I would maybe be interested in reading the next book if the writing wasn't so horrible. The book is riddled with typos and repeat sentences.
My favourite typo? "But you saved me." "Barley."
I legit laughed out loud. This is no time to talk about whole grains.
Anyway, the book swaps between first person POV from Dianna and from Liam. They have unique voices in dialogue, but their internal monologues sound so similar that I often forgot whose chapter I was in. Not only that, but each of them are far too omniscient. Things like Dianna stating that her eyes are glowing red (without being able to see that they are) or Liam stating that Dianna "tried, and failed, to nod" when he has no idea what her intentions are to try and do. I feel like the author should've just gone for a 3rd person POV so she could detail everything she wanted. It was hard to connect with the characters when so much of the description relies on what they see (or the characters staying how others are seeing them, without actually knowing) instead of focusing on what those characters feel. Even things like scenery descriptions feel like they've been thrown in as an afterthought.
Lastly, it only happens a couple of times, but the writing jumps between past tense and present tense in the middle of paragraphs. Not doing that is just basic writing 101.
Also, I just didn't feel that the FMC and MMC had a strong relationship arc. The MMC does have this kinda formal language barrier thing going on for the first half of the book, which kinda inhibits a lot of chemistry. And I think the author was going for a bit of grumpy/sunshine duo but I dunno I just didn't feel like they had chemistry even into the later parts of the book. I didn't see any inciting event for them to start to like each other. I guess they're each super hot and it's hard to spend that much time around another hot person without falling for them? We all know true love is built on looks, with just a dash of personality.
So yes. I have a lot of gripes about the quality of writing, and a lot less about the plot itself. But I just couldn't get into this one.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Sexual assault
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
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
“I decided I would rip the world apart for her”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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:
N/A
Spicy: 4
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
adventurous
dark
slow-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:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture
Minor: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, War
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
EEEK I LOVED THIS! Slow at first and struggled to get into it but man I was hooked once I got there. Liam and Dianna have my heart I NEED them to get a happy ending together bc the way this book ended HAD ME STRESSED! Ugh what a freakin book. I laughed so much during this and cheered for these characters so many times. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Rape, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment
Minor: Animal death, Colonisation
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book set up a great premise and was enjoyable for a while. The action/fighting scenes were GREAT, especially the MMC’s. Definitely the author’s forte.
Unfortunately, it felt so… YA (besides the adult themes).
Unfortunately, it felt so… YA (besides the adult themes).
They all looked at me as if I had grown horns. I quickly ran my hands over my head, making sure I hadn't before I asked, "Have you guys not watched any sort of adventure movie? Hello! [SPOILER, INSERT COMMON MOVIE TROPE HERE]?"
The FMC was supposed to be this feared badass who didn’t give two shits about what people thought of them but only came across as immature and, at times, cringy enough to make me wince. I’m tired of the crude and sexual female character archetype!! 😔 And the MMC also wears tight trousers… eugh. 😔
The romance between them felt more about possession and control rather than actual love. I didn’t feel much romantic chemistry; they just seemed more like best friends (not factoring in the lust). Not necessarily a bad thing if it weren’t advertised as romance.
Plot was there but soon became repetitive and a little boring once you realised it was going around in circles. You just had to read through a ton of filler to gain any sort of new significant information.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Torture