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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have taken a star off for this book as the pacing was quite rushed. The journey through the wylds could have been a bit more adventurous, more interactions between Celine and the Lady of the Vale, and given the storylines intersecting the vampires, werewolves, and the Vale I don't understand why the author has also introduced the guy from Paris. Given book 1 started the series pretty strong, I hope book 3 ends the trilogy on a high note.
First off, the cover is absolutely stunning! The best in the series, in my opinion. All told, I’m not certain the story actually lives up to the cover’s delicious promise of dark, beautiful seduction. This series feels like a mix of Twilight, Wicked Lovely, and Chronicles of Nick. The New Orleans setting lends flavor to the tale, and the inclusion of other languages appears quite accurate, which is a nice touch. I enjoy the character diversity as well.
However, the love triangle seems to lack passion or interest. I also felt the ending left much to be desired. Perhaps this will be improved on in the next book.
Honestly, I like Jae best and feel he’s been given the short end of the stick in the narrative.
However, the love triangle seems to lack passion or interest. I also felt the ending left much to be desired. Perhaps this will be improved on in the next book.
Honestly, I like Jae best and feel he’s been given the short end of the stick in the narrative.
I don't exactly know what it was with this book... I really liked the first part of this series, mainly because of the atmosphere of New Orleans, and I was missing that part a bit here. Leaving New Orleans for a bit was also not my favourite part of the book (especially because not a lot seemed to be happening there), and the characters and the other part of the book was not enough to make me really enthusiastic about it. Let's hope it was just the middle book syndrome.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It had everything and nothing. Readers fell in love with Celine and Bastien in book one and they were completely lacking in book 2. Instead, we got an abundance of world building that felt like it was haphazardly thrown together and the backstories of characters were already knew and didn’t need backstories on. It felt like there were at least three different stories thrown together in here. Whatever I expected to happen following the end of book 1, this most certainly was not it, and not in a good way.
Not quite as good as the first. This felt more like a filler book than anything else. There was one or two pieces of knowledge given and big events at the end, but the majority of the book was a bit useless. Lots of pages involving Celine wandering around trying to fill the holes in her memory while Bastian laments his humanity. Nothing really of substance for the majority of the book. I am looking forward to the finale because I'm hoping it will capture the essence of the first one.
Dang it! This is not the end of the story! I am ready for more!
This books picks up where The Beautiful left off. The book did it’s job of enthralling me in its ethereal world. It wasn’t as captivating as the first book maybe because I felt it had diverted jnto too many POVs. I found myself missing Celine’s POVs and wished more for her and Sebastian’s character interactions. Which seemed all shoved in the end. Also this book was completely opposite to the first where the supernatural beings were subtle plots while here it was point and center and a bit too forced. Overall though I still really enjoyed it and left me wanting to know more about what’s next.