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This book was hard to get into. It had a lot of characters that each had about 3 names each making it hard to keep track of. This book also had a lot of big words and lots of anatomy lingo I did not understand. felt like reading futuristic pride and prejudice.

Yet once challenges came into play it started to get so good. This book constantly kept me on my feet with its twist and turns. Along with all the drama made by having so many characters.

In my last book I complained about how no one died yet in this book practically everyone died more than I would have liked. It did make the keeping track of all the characters a lot easier in the end. I could tell as the book got closer to the end that Gideon was not going to make it. Also the title of the next book also led me to my suspicions of this.

I wish Gideon had survived. Her budding romance with Harrow was so cute and I’m sad it didn’t get to evolve more. You can’t give me the line “Gideon could have kissed her” and THEY NEVER KISS. If Harrow finds love in the next book and Gideon has to live in her head and has to witnesses everything I will be pissed.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that Harrow was already an unknowing Lyctor before she arrived to Canaan house because of all the ninth souls already inside her before/when she was born.

I also did not trust Ianthe from the beginning because of ACOTR .

Also I wanted to know so much more about Gideon family/backstory and the other Gideon and other Lyctors. Upset this went unresolved. Also how did she survive the killing of all the ninth youth? Did she have some unknown/under developed power?

deboramilitao's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

4.0

coracle's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

jaisuus's review against another edition

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challenging tense fast-paced

Strong character development? Yes

4.75

I see myself rereading this book soon! Even tho I didn’t find it as confusing as I was afraid of.. I think I maybe did not pick up everything.

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notnicolebrewer's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

deborah1's review against another edition

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mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I would recommend making sure you keep the character list to hand as it can get quite confusing who everyone is, there are 20 characters who are all important in some way and I didn't know who they were when things happened to them.

m_wimby's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.5

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