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River of Shadows

Karina Halle

3.65 AVERAGE

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DID NOT FINISH: 45%

Just not what I wanted. I loved learning about the Finnish mythology. But it wasn't hitting the spot I guess. And after a solid month of no progress, I figured calling it was the thing to do.
adventurous dark funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Okay this was over-hyped. I almost DNF’d in the beginning. Literally the first 50% if a hero’s journey. Then 50-70% is a Stockholm prisoner slow burn. 70-80% is just 5 really hot sex scenes in a row. Then the book is over on a weird middle-of-the-action cliffhanger? And I think this secondary MMC is supposed to be maybe good maybe bad, but he just seems all around unappealing? If I had known that there would be a lot of epic world building and low spice, it would have been good. But booktok is fin obsessed?! Obviously I was in once we got to the spice. I stayed up late to finish it. I will be reading the next one-but I’m not happy about it.
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious 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 fast-paced
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

OH MY GOSH!!! The ending?!!!! It made me so upset. Death is going to be devastated but the book was amazing starting book two now. Highly recommend!!! And it was pretty spicy but not until over half way 
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Interesting premise but badly executed due to bad clichéd writing.
challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

no connection between them and hard to feel in tune with characters overall. good ending tho (kinda plot twist, kinda expected) 
dark emotional medium-paced

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