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Hell Bent

Leigh Bardugo

4.14 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5, rounded up!

Loved it!

this book was way too long, too many twists and red herrings. I also don’t like how the world and magic system evolved from the first book. the characters feel so disjointed and different from the first book, lots of awkward lines that don’t fit with their personalities. Also there were so many plot conveniences and i have questions: why did the drug dealer guy happen to show up right when they needed a sacrifice ? why is the big bad vampire villain a bi-coastal drug dealer? how did nobody in the secret societies figure out where the gauntlet was for almost 100 years, when it was so easy for someone with very minimal applicable knowledge to just stumble upon in the library ? what happened to walsh whitely at the end ? idek lmao

4,5/5

Takhle rychle jsem tak tlustou knihu dlouho nepřečetla... To vypovídá o tom, jak moc boží Brána pekel byla :D.

Nebudu lhát, z jedničky jsem si nic moc kromě Darlingtona už nepamatovala (guilty
dark 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

Loved it. Great follow up.

More like 3.5 ⭐️. This book is all over the place. I was so excited to finally read it and it was such a let down.

I think I must’ve read about Alex and Ground Zero another hundred times in this book, and it did nothing to me. I DONT CARE ABOUT THE RABBIT.
No clever twists other than who were the two dead people at the beginning of the book, and even then it was like… really?
Every twist fell flat either because we could see the clues from miles away or because it was just obvious that’s what’s supposed to happen to be “shocked”.

The only part that I really liked was Alex meeting Reiter. And that’s because it was a genuine moment of “oh! This is a surprise!” and because Alex showed fear! A development because Alex’s character is flat as a pancake, her only personality is “I’m wrong as a person, everyone dies around me, I’m sarcastic, and I don’t talk to other people about my feelings even after nearly dying every twenty minutes”

I spent more than half of the book thinking if there’s a sequel to this I don’t need it

An amazing sequel that I loved just as much as the first book. Cannot wait for the third!
adventurous dark 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: Yes