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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
Spectacular
This book is amazing and made me feel things. Amazing story. Amazing characters. I just love it. The magic system was new and interesting and the end has me craving more
This book is amazing and made me feel things. Amazing story. Amazing characters. I just love it. The magic system was new and interesting and the end has me craving more
Annoying, whiny main character. That's her only personality trait. The characterizations are flat and lazy. The action needs intense editing. And the author randomly uses words as if she just learned them, like saying a character was ravished by his emotions or something like that. I read a few lines to my husband just to make him laugh.
The plot was almost interesting and the setting could really have worked if there were some editing going on.
The plot was almost interesting and the setting could really have worked if there were some editing going on.
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Stars: 3.5/5
Characters– Let’s start with favorite-
Ilyan- Amazing, smart, handsome, mature, royal attitude, kind. Just love him. ❤ Wyn- sweet, girly, fierce, adorable. Talon- loyal and good. Ryland (Ry)- second main character- Good, protective, perfect friend and boyfriend. Ovailia- mean, insolent, but love her sibling. I’m not judging her right now knowing what she has gone through and I’m sure there will be more to this character in next books of the series that may make her nature reasonable. But in this book surely unlikable. And PROTAGONIST- Joclyn- Agghh! I did’t like her. I will explain it why in ‘didn’t like section’ below.
What I liked? First of all the story and concept was really good. Interesting and touching opening of the book with receiving mark and tragedy of Joclyn’s family. Joclyn and Ry’s friendship, their emotions for each other felt so raw, real, and heartwarming. Their Forbidden love kept me glued to book. Czech words in the book were interesting, it gave book a different touch. Theories / stories behind mark, about Ilyan and his family, about magical world was so amazing and different that it made this story stand out from other paranormal romance.
First half of the book was little slow, it made book suspenseful, I was looking for all the secrets to unrevealed, wanted to know what that magic and mark is all about. Yup, I didn’t get it till around 45% of the book. Only hints. All interesting thing came in the second half. I have mixed feeling for this first part because of this reason. I liked the suspense but at the same time it made me impatient and irritable.
Second half of the book captures all the speed magically possible. You that feeling you get when your plane taxiing on the runway and suddenly accelerate fully to take off. That’s how it felt at this point. It made first half worth reading. Actions, magic, fight, stories, all was there. It was exciting. Antagonist was such an evil, I haven’t met such antagonist yet.
End- Expected yet interesting. First chapter of the next book was really interesting and I’m curious to see what happens next.
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Stars: 3.5/5
Characters– Let’s start with favorite-
Ilyan- Amazing, smart, handsome, mature, royal attitude, kind. Just love him. ❤ Wyn- sweet, girly, fierce, adorable. Talon- loyal and good. Ryland (Ry)- second main character- Good, protective, perfect friend and boyfriend. Ovailia- mean, insolent, but love her sibling. I’m not judging her right now knowing what she has gone through and I’m sure there will be more to this character in next books of the series that may make her nature reasonable. But in this book surely unlikable. And PROTAGONIST- Joclyn- Agghh! I did’t like her. I will explain it why in ‘didn’t like section’ below.
What I liked? First of all the story and concept was really good. Interesting and touching opening of the book with receiving mark and tragedy of Joclyn’s family. Joclyn and Ry’s friendship, their emotions for each other felt so raw, real, and heartwarming. Their Forbidden love kept me glued to book. Czech words in the book were interesting, it gave book a different touch. Theories / stories behind mark, about Ilyan and his family, about magical world was so amazing and different that it made this story stand out from other paranormal romance.
First half of the book was little slow, it made book suspenseful, I was looking for all the secrets to unrevealed, wanted to know what that magic and mark is all about. Yup, I didn’t get it till around 45% of the book. Only hints. All interesting thing came in the second half. I have mixed feeling for this first part because of this reason. I liked the suspense but at the same time it made me impatient and irritable.
Second half of the book captures all the speed magically possible. You that feeling you get when your plane taxiing on the runway and suddenly accelerate fully to take off. That’s how it felt at this point. It made first half worth reading. Actions, magic, fight, stories, all was there. It was exciting. Antagonist was such an evil, I haven’t met such antagonist yet.
End- Expected yet interesting. First chapter of the next book was really interesting and I’m curious to see what happens next.
Read full review on my blog
"You have very pretty eyes" he said softly. "They look like diamonds"
This book .... THIS BOOK. I truly, truly don't know how I feel about it. Do I love it, do I hate it? I just do not know (Which, btw is a pretty shit opener for a review. Hello, today I will be reviewing a book I both loved and hated)
I just ... I just don't know. THERE WERE BITS AND PIECES I REALLY LOVED and then there were bits that literally made my eyes roll into the back of my goddam skull due to how cliche they were.
This book is definitely one for fans of The Mortal Instruments ! It follows much the same premise. A young girl is thrown into a magical world hidden from the eyes of regular people, whilst finding out she is unknowingly one of these magical people.
THINGS I LIKED ABOUT THIS BOOK
✦ it was free on amazon. Yeah, whatever. I'm a cheapskate, and I'm broke. Free books are good books
✦ The set up of the magical world. I liked that the centre/origin of the world was in The Czech Republic and that the characters traditionally spoke Czech. It just felt like it was something new and refreshing in an area that has been really overdone and explored.
✦ Ilyan. I loved his characters, he was my favourite. However, I do think he could have used some further development tbh
✦ I liked that bad shit happened because I feel it raised the stakes and generally made the story more intense
✦ I also really liked Wyn as a character - and Ovailia
✦ I feel like it set up the series well, and I am genuinely excited about where this goes even if the first book by itself wasn't my favourite, I feel the series as a whole has great potential
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE AS MUCH
✦ I'm sorryyy but I just hated the main character so much. She was so whiny, and just ... urgh! she was so frustrating. 1: Has intense guilt about something that obviously isn't her fault. 2: Is a beautiful girl but thinks she's ugly 3: She's such an amateur but acts like she's a master and I'm like GIRL pls respect your elders
✦ There is a lowkey love triangle and I am NOT DOWN
✦ It was really tropey and cliche. I didn't like the romance much, it was just too much at times and idk how to feel about it. I went from really liking Ryland to literally cringing about him every few minutes and it was frankly exhuasting
✦ Mean Girl Trope™ I hate it. Its the worst freakin trope. I SINCERELY HOPE OVAILIA GETS JUSTICE PLS MAKE HER MORE THEN JUST A MEAN GIRL PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
✦ The baddies were too much. They were just too over the top evil for me to take seriously. I didn't feel like they were complex villians, they were more the insane, murderous, sterotypical hitler style villians. They were just too over the top for me to engage with u know?
✦ Found the writing style a tad too simplistic sometimes
TRULY this book is a conundrum. Maybe it's because I went in with low expectations that were definitely surpassed - but I don't know how to feel.
I think it's one of those books you just can't take too seriously, it's sort of fun and fluffy but not really well developed in any aspect. It felt like characters, world building, plot were all good and yet they needed something to make them better
I think I will continue with this series, because it seems to be set up really well to have good potential. I'm hoping that there will be lots of character development, since I think that was lacking lots in this book.
Overall, I give this a 3.5*. It was much better then I expected going in, and for a debut novel I really enjoyed it. I will be continuing this series !