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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I can't believe how supremely terrible this book is. And this is after giving Ironflower five stars. I was so mad about this terrible book, I spent 20 minutes in bed, trying to fall asleep, and instead writing five bad reviews about it in my mind.
What the hell happened to Laurie Forest? This book reads like it was written by a different author. The second book had colorful characters, interesting relationship dynamics, and an actual plot. This book has... Lukas Grey, and not much else.
Basically, here's how this book felt to me.
- random character story that does nothing for the plot
- random character story that does nothing for the plot
- yvan dead, just cause
- Elloren in Gardneria. Why? How? The details are never fully explained and the time gap is never filled. But who cares about that, right? Because there is...
- Lukas Grey. And more of him. And more. While in the second book he was a morally gray character, in this one - surprise! - he is a hardcore rebel. Is this sussed out and explained? Nah. Why bother? Because there's more...
- Elloren in Gardneria takes more than HALF of this stupid book. I was g r o a n i n g. It was so boring. The writing was so flat, it's like the author herself got tired of this story. It was repetitive and stale, with characters repeating the same phrases over and over, with no change in the plot besides it being 200 pages later.
- Escape time, yay! Out of nowhere friends, death, wah wah. This entire time ELLOREN IS STILL WITHOUT POWER. This is the third book in the series, titled The Black Witch, yet the witch is still powerless. How is this good writing?!
- Yvan's alive, surprise. And we are set up for the stupidest love triangle.
The entirety of this book is Elloren and Lukas and like three days worth of events. Their relationship felt like an empty space to me, there's nothing to connect to emotionally and it's so artificially forced. Bleeeeeh.
I don't even know if I want to read the last book. If it's anything close to this horrid book, I want nothing to do with it.
What the hell happened to Laurie Forest? This book reads like it was written by a different author. The second book had colorful characters, interesting relationship dynamics, and an actual plot. This book has... Lukas Grey, and not much else.
Basically, here's how this book felt to me.
- random character story that does nothing for the plot
- random character story that does nothing for the plot
- yvan dead, just cause
- Elloren in Gardneria. Why? How? The details are never fully explained and the time gap is never filled. But who cares about that, right? Because there is...
- Lukas Grey. And more of him. And more. While in the second book he was a morally gray character, in this one - surprise! - he is a hardcore rebel. Is this sussed out and explained? Nah. Why bother? Because there's more...
- Elloren in Gardneria takes more than HALF of this stupid book. I was g r o a n i n g. It was so boring. The writing was so flat, it's like the author herself got tired of this story. It was repetitive and stale, with characters repeating the same phrases over and over, with no change in the plot besides it being 200 pages later.
- Escape time, yay! Out of nowhere friends, death, wah wah. This entire time ELLOREN IS STILL WITHOUT POWER. This is the third book in the series, titled The Black Witch, yet the witch is still powerless. How is this good writing?!
- Yvan's alive, surprise. And we are set up for the stupidest love triangle.
The entirety of this book is Elloren and Lukas and like three days worth of events. Their relationship felt like an empty space to me, there's nothing to connect to emotionally and it's so artificially forced. Bleeeeeh.
I don't even know if I want to read the last book. If it's anything close to this horrid book, I want nothing to do with it.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
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:
Yes
Another great book though I must admit Elloren annoyed me a couple of times especially her weakness and complaining but also her repeated descriptions of heat she felt towards Lukas. We get it girl. You want him, but there's is a war coming. Other than that it was a good read, I just enjoyed reading POV of other characters more. Let's see what happens next.
Okay... so powered through the last two books in less than a week, and while this is a great book to lead the series further, I have to say it was not my favourite so far.
I say this for one main reason:
This story chopped and changed between different character perspectives (because they are on their respective journeys), but some of the perspectives were not from characters I also wanted to hear from. For example, where are the Lupines Jarod and Diana? I really also wanted to hear from Aislinn. There is a section in the book where she just kind of appears, and you hear what she has gone through only very briefly. I like books that have different perspectives, but I think there are so many characters that Laurie Forest could have really created two books out of this one. There is also a bit more mature content in this book.
However, I am very excited and can't wait til the next book comes out towards the end of this year! There are so many things I am hoping to see in this book so I have quite high expectations. :)
I say this for one main reason:
This story chopped and changed between different character perspectives (because they are on their respective journeys), but some of the perspectives were not from characters I also wanted to hear from. For example, where are the Lupines Jarod and Diana? I really also wanted to hear from Aislinn. There is a section in the book where she just kind of appears, and you hear what she has gone through only very briefly. I like books that have different perspectives, but I think there are so many characters that Laurie Forest could have really created two books out of this one. There is also a bit more mature content in this book.
However, I am very excited and can't wait til the next book comes out towards the end of this year! There are so many things I am hoping to see in this book so I have quite high expectations. :)
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
slow-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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
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:
Yes
adventurous
tense
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
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:
Yes