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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
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
I did prefer the first book, slightly more. But only slightly. I’m a sucker for the trope of “lying to protect the other” and this book was full of this and I loved it. Cylvan and Saffron remain to be a top tier pairing and I love how this book cemented that they are soulmates. And I love how Saffron is bumbling his way into his own power. Cylvan is a top tier character for me, I want to dissect him and pull him apart because I love him. I love how all of the characters are well fleshed out and how the world is being built on and expanded. Adding the third instalment to my tbr list, hoping to read it either next week or the week after. Like I said in my first review, this is likely going to become a personal favourite series of mine.
3.5⭐Por alguna razón, Yo sé que los libros de este autor tienen una escritura algo mala; y la manera de avanzar en la historia es bastante lenta, pero el autor me tiene aquí de su pendeja. Ya me descargué el tercer libro y ni siquiera sé PORQUÉ... Recuerdo que la anterior fue más épica. Y otra vez me volvieron a dejar en un click hanger.¿Voy a leer el tercer libro? Por supuesto. Aunque tarde más de la mitad en ponerse bueno Y gramaticalmente mal escrito. NECESITO ASEGURARME DE QUE MI PERSONAJE FAVORITO SEA FELIZ.
Lord of Silver Ashes is the follow up to Prince of the Sorrows in the MM fey romantasy series Rowan Blood. Saffron has just made a deal with Lord Taran to prevent the further deaths of humans by the wolf in exchange for Saffron’s silence and disappearance from Prince Cylvan’s life and his aid in searching for rowan berries to control Cylvan. Saffron submits but is biding his time as he learns more about his own human arid magic, the history of Morrigan Academy, and Lord Taran’s past before he can be reunited with Cylvan.
I really don’t understand how this book has so many positive reviews because this was just an exceedingly frustrating read for me. The book is so incredibly slow and is too long for the story it’s telling. For the first third of the book, I had no idea where the story was actually going and Saffron was just wallowing in the cruelty he was being subjected to (in what I can only assume is to feed the author’s torture kink because everything felt so needless and unnecessary).
I just don’t think much of the book made any sense at all, and the set up was just nonsensical from the beginning. Why was Taran keeping Saffron (who isn’t even locked in his room) imprisoned in the same house as Prince Cylvan who he is supposedly being hidden from? What was the point of Taran telling Cylvan that Saffron is dead when it was all going to come out after the 2-week deadline anyway? Why is Cylvan coming across so powerless and allowing Saffron to be treated so cruelly? Why was Saffron stupidly keeping up with the lie that his memories were taken away (when one discussion could have completely resolved this entire book)? Why was Taran even allowing Saffron to have any access to Cylvan at all? There’s just too many questions and plotholes.
When the book finally allows Saffron and Cylvan to be together, it actually works and feels genuine. But it’s in all the other parts where I need the book to show me that Cylvan actually loves Saffron and not just tell me that he does because his actions certainly do not. It doesn’t bode well for a book that the story is kind of getting in the way of the romance. I did like the ending though and would have been fine for the series to entirely just end there, but then it had to go to add this random person appearing out of nowhere in the last few pages to throw a wrench into the plot. If I didn’t already own book 3, this would have been where I ended my reading of this series.
While I did like some parts, I just found Lord of Silver Ashes to be too nonsensical to enjoy.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Had real plot resolution happy for now ending and fun dramatic lead up.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This volume was thankfully as entertaining as the first one, although this one was quite angstier (for my biggest pleasure). Cylvan and Saffron are as cute as always, and the plot deepens. I can't wait to see what will happen in the third volume, especially with the wonderful end of this volume!
dark
emotional
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:
Complicated
dark
emotional
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
In theory, I love the story arc here. I love the idea of a socially subjugated person finding a way to access power that has only been made accessible to the dominant groups, I love the idea of love that manages to transcend these class/social boundaries, and like I wrote in my review of the last book, I love the magic system here which feels unique and interesting compared to other similar fae stories I've read before.
Unfortunately, for me there are two main things preventing me from enjoying the story as much as I should. One is the feeling that things are being sort of artificially drawn out. I recently learned that the author intends this to be an eight book series, and... I gotta say I don't know how this particular storyline is going to get drawn out for eight books without it being unnecessarily padded by drama and misunderstandings. Maybe they intend to wrap up the existing storyline and start another one?
The second thing is that the copyediting, or lack thereof, is truly egregious. I'm surprised by this because a copyeditor is explicitly credited in the author's notes, and yet it looks like they didn't even touch the text? The most common error I see is places where there are two dependent clauses with mismatched subjects in the same sentence. Nearly all of them have this construction: "[Verb]-ing, [character] [verbs]." And in a majority of those cases, the two actions being described are either not possible to do at the same time, or the subject of those verbs is different in each clause, which makes for a confusing time trying to figure out who is responsible for what action.
All in all I think that the author has a strong concept here, but I feel that their editor is letting them down a little by not making them tighten up the storyline and fixing some of the distracting grammar errors.
Unfortunately, for me there are two main things preventing me from enjoying the story as much as I should. One is the feeling that things are being sort of artificially drawn out. I recently learned that the author intends this to be an eight book series, and... I gotta say I don't know how this particular storyline is going to get drawn out for eight books without it being unnecessarily padded by drama and misunderstandings. Maybe they intend to wrap up the existing storyline and start another one?
The second thing is that the copyediting, or lack thereof, is truly egregious. I'm surprised by this because a copyeditor is explicitly credited in the author's notes, and yet it looks like they didn't even touch the text? The most common error I see is places where there are two dependent clauses with mismatched subjects in the same sentence. Nearly all of them have this construction: "[Verb]-ing, [character] [verbs]." And in a majority of those cases, the two actions being described are either not possible to do at the same time, or the subject of those verbs is different in each clause, which makes for a confusing time trying to figure out who is responsible for what action.
All in all I think that the author has a strong concept here, but I feel that their editor is letting them down a little by not making them tighten up the storyline and fixing some of the distracting grammar errors.
challenging
dark
tense
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:
Yes