Reviews

Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

platinum_introvert's review

5.0

Dark demise is part one of Waverly Sandler’s story. While this is a great addition to the Wings of Artemis series, I would strongly recommend reading the series in order. Waverly is the half-sister to the Sandler brothers (Paloma’s men). She was raised by the abusive Sandler father. It is quite charming to see this woman who believes herself undesirable blossom through the often awkward and humorous courting of the four men who desire her. The overall plot also moved forward the rebels battle against both the Sandler cartel and Evander corporation in an unpredictable way. It was seamlessly tied together with events from prior books in the series. I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait for the chance to read part two of Waverly’s story.

I was given an ARC in exchange for an honest review

witchylevy's review

4.0

A bit of time travel with reverse harem

I'm really not usually a fan of time travel. The idea of it seems messy to me. In this book, I love that the author explains potential ramifications, paradoxes, logically - or at least to the science of this series. I haven't read the others in the series, so I was happy to learn that they can stand alone in two book sets with character cameos in later books. I find it odd that the first two books in the series aren't available on KU but the rest are.
The characters felt like real people who had tragic pasts. Readers cannot help empathizing. I definitely saw the bad person's identity before it was revealed, but not the cliffhanger coming.

moonmist80's review

5.0

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I like Waverley's story. This is the seiries that started my love of RH stories. Love this series and the strong women in them.

doodlewinger's review

5.0

Waverly is by far my favorite of all the women in this series. I love that she is not traditionally beautiful on the outside but kind and smart and sweet and strong. I really felt for her with all of her insecurities believing that no one could ever love her. Then all of her men trying so hard to show her that she was beautiful and Waverly not really seeing that. I liked that we got to see a lot of things that happened in previous books in the series kind of came together here. This book was awesome cannot wait for book 8 so I can continue watching Waverly grow and hopefully destroy her father.

goliathfrog's review against another edition

5.0

As far as storylines go for the WoA series, this one is the best by far. The plot of Dark Demise is more developed that prior books in the series. There are multiple action events that take place in the story (as opposed to the more pastoral feel of the previous stories). While Waverly isn’t my ideal main character due to her overwhelming amount of insecurities, I think the author addressed these is a way that wasn’t overly dramatic or annoying. Waverly recognizes that the issues are based in trauma and not necessarily in reality so it makes it a little easier to stomach the self-deprecating comments and thoughts. The relationship development moves extremely fast in the story (although we’re led to believe it’s been ongoing for months). Overall I think this book really marks a lot of positive advances in Rebecca Royce’s writing style.

This is really a 4.5 but I’m rounding up

bee995's review

4.0

I’ve not read any of the Wings of Artemis books before. I’m not typically a sci fi fan but I did enjoy this. It wasn’t so heavy sci fi that I was turned off, but a subtle background rather than the main plot line. I loved the characters and how deep they went. Each had a flaw but were loved and able to love which I found really nice. I’m sure the previous Wings of Artemis books are for the characters that pop up in this like Diana and Paloma so it would be nice to read those and get a good understanding of the world. I may have been converted.