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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Dark Fantasy with Gods/mortals/assasins etc.. TBH I’m not sure what I just read or even how to start describing it. The writing style is pretty poor & littered with spelling/ grammar mistakes and reads like a play written by a child…, except it’s very VERY adult. I have no idea how I ended up finishing this book so quickly, and I don’t want to encourage the author to continue her written career, as this was trash.. yet I kinda want to see where this story goes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment
This was highly addictive, and so well done.
I don't want to give too much away. It has so
many layers, I really don't know where to start.
I feel that we haven't even gotten to the
middle layer at all, because there is so much that
has happened, and is currently happening.
I'm loving this every step of the way. The
Snows of Nissa's world keeps getting bigger,
as we get introduced to new players and places.
Love the chemistry between Duna and Cathal.
Can't wait to read The Storms of Fury.
I don't want to give too much away. It has so
many layers, I really don't know where to start.
I feel that we haven't even gotten to the
middle layer at all, because there is so much that
has happened, and is currently happening.
I'm loving this every step of the way. The
Snows of Nissa's world keeps getting bigger,
as we get introduced to new players and places.
Love the chemistry between Duna and Cathal.
Can't wait to read The Storms of Fury.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm sorry but... I'm not interested in half a page or more of outfits in detail. How very sexualised everything is. I apprecite a good romance but this is just too much. Feels very superficial to me and I'm not enjoying it.
This book didn’t catch my attention fast enough. It was slow and my page 58 the only thing that happened was some sparring.
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Dark Fantasy Romance ~ Dark Romantasy . Slow Spicy Burn . Forbidden Love . Forced Proximity . Touch Her and Die (x2) . Prophecy . Domestic Violence . Morally Grey MMC
"'I will burn the whole f*cking world down for you.... For just one touch from your exquisite mouth, for just one smoldering embrace in the shadows of the darkest night. For a single gaze from your soul shattering, depthless eyes, I would punish the gods themselves.' You are mine." (ch 14, pg 123).
Told in 3rd person narration, it is a pretty quick read. At least it was for me, as I read it in one day. Wouldn't say that it was exactly like, or similar to ACOTAR, but it's in that same category-ish. There's fighting, sizzling sexual tension and eroticism, tales and tellings of myths, legends, and Gods, fated mates, betrayal, love triangles, centuries old secrets, ancient and mythical beasts, and a prophecy. All packed into less than 300 pages.
After finishing, I had many questions. Hopefully, they are answered in the remaining books of the series!
"'I will burn the whole f*cking world down for you.... For just one touch from your exquisite mouth, for just one smoldering embrace in the shadows of the darkest night. For a single gaze from your soul shattering, depthless eyes, I would punish the gods themselves.' You are mine." (ch 14, pg 123).
Told in 3rd person narration, it is a pretty quick read. At least it was for me, as I read it in one day. Wouldn't say that it was exactly like, or similar to ACOTAR, but it's in that same category-ish. There's fighting, sizzling sexual tension and eroticism, tales and tellings of myths, legends, and Gods, fated mates, betrayal, love triangles, centuries old secrets, ancient and mythical beasts, and a prophecy. All packed into less than 300 pages.
After finishing, I had many questions. Hopefully, they are answered in the remaining books of the series!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Domestic abuse
1.5 ⭐
This took all my strength not to DNF.
The world building was non-existent. I honestly didn't even think this was a fantasy book at all until a slight hint to a magical element was randomly sprung on me about a third of the way in, with zero context and no explanation. I thought I'd missed something.
And then suddenly, we're completely overwhelmed with pages and pages of info-dumping, through the lazy form of characters randomly telling each other long-winded stories out of nowhere. Hard to read and endless paragraphs of it.
The relationship between the MCs is 0-100. Insta-lust at it's finest, and I don't mean that in a good way. They have like two measly, miniscule interactions and then all of a sudden are acting as though they have this deep, angsty, romantic connection full of yearning, when they've literally barely just met.
It's so forced, there's no chemistry apart from what we're told about them. There's no showing of anything in the entire book. There's no depth or substance to any of the characters, they have zero personality. And what personality they do have is massively inconsistent, their actions constantly make no sense.
And the writing itself is so bad. It was so hard to concentrate with how overwritten the prose is, too flowery and trying to be overly verbose. The word choices were at times so bizarre. Even in the dialogue, the verbose language would transfer over into the characters speech and made zero sense whatsoever. The characters spoke so formally at all times and every other word would have some kind of unnecessary adjective in front of it. People don't talk like that!
That, paired with the numerous grammatical errors made it so hard to read and took me out of the book so often.
The plot in itself had some potential I guess, and there was enough intrigue created for me to be curious about where everything was headed. Despite my many negative feelings for this book I actually was tempted to try a couple chapters of the next one to see where it went, as there are a lot of threads still unresolved, but unfortunately I cannot put myself through reading any more from this author.
Where all these positive reviews came from I will never know.
This took all my strength not to DNF.
The world building was non-existent. I honestly didn't even think this was a fantasy book at all until a slight hint to a magical element was randomly sprung on me about a third of the way in, with zero context and no explanation. I thought I'd missed something.
And then suddenly, we're completely overwhelmed with pages and pages of info-dumping, through the lazy form of characters randomly telling each other long-winded stories out of nowhere. Hard to read and endless paragraphs of it.
The relationship between the MCs is 0-100. Insta-lust at it's finest, and I don't mean that in a good way. They have like two measly, miniscule interactions and then all of a sudden are acting as though they have this deep, angsty, romantic connection full of yearning, when they've literally barely just met.
It's so forced, there's no chemistry apart from what we're told about them. There's no showing of anything in the entire book. There's no depth or substance to any of the characters, they have zero personality. And what personality they do have is massively inconsistent, their actions constantly make no sense.
And the writing itself is so bad. It was so hard to concentrate with how overwritten the prose is, too flowery and trying to be overly verbose. The word choices were at times so bizarre. Even in the dialogue, the verbose language would transfer over into the characters speech and made zero sense whatsoever. The characters spoke so formally at all times and every other word would have some kind of unnecessary adjective in front of it. People don't talk like that!
That, paired with the numerous grammatical errors made it so hard to read and took me out of the book so often.
The plot in itself had some potential I guess, and there was enough intrigue created for me to be curious about where everything was headed. Despite my many negative feelings for this book I actually was tempted to try a couple chapters of the next one to see where it went, as there are a lot of threads still unresolved, but unfortunately I cannot put myself through reading any more from this author.
Where all these positive reviews came from I will never know.
Beautiful descriptions but also kind of a fever dream of a plot??
Too much focus on the wardrobe/appearance description, less to none on storytelling
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-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