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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
This series is a gift! A gift everyone should treat themselves to! When the audiobook finished, I yelled "I LOVE THIS SERIES." In my car. To nobody.
Seriously, I can't say enough how awesome it is. The characters are so well-written and likable - even the ones you don't like you sort of love to loathe. Healy has drawn a super-fun plot too: sometimes he plants seeds so you know what's coming and enjoy the journey getting there. But he also throws in some great surprises that are so delightful I giggled in surprise. Surprise Giggles!
Also giant kudos to Bronson Pinchot who has got to be my favorite audiobook reader/actor. Every character is so distinct and even his narrator is specific and likable. Some of the voices get a little grating and sometimes the intention or emotion of the dialogue is sacrificed for the voice, but considering the dozens of different characters he voices I am super-impressed and my notes are merely quibbles. It's best to assume that there's a great director behind this audiobook too so kudos to that person!
I'm starting book 3 tomorrow YAY! I also have a very fun and unrealistic dream-cast, but this review is long enough. But if someone would be so good as to hire me as the costume designer for the mini-series, I'd really appreciate it.
Seriously, I can't say enough how awesome it is. The characters are so well-written and likable - even the ones you don't like you sort of love to loathe. Healy has drawn a super-fun plot too: sometimes he plants seeds so you know what's coming and enjoy the journey getting there. But he also throws in some great surprises that are so delightful I giggled in surprise. Surprise Giggles!
Also giant kudos to Bronson Pinchot who has got to be my favorite audiobook reader/actor. Every character is so distinct and even his narrator is specific and likable. Some of the voices get a little grating and sometimes the intention or emotion of the dialogue is sacrificed for the voice, but considering the dozens of different characters he voices I am super-impressed and my notes are merely quibbles. It's best to assume that there's a great director behind this audiobook too so kudos to that person!
I'm starting book 3 tomorrow YAY! I also have a very fun and unrealistic dream-cast, but this review is long enough. But if someone would be so good as to hire me as the costume designer for the mini-series, I'd really appreciate it.
It was great!!! I'm glad there's going to be a third one though, because that was such a cliffhanger! And all of the romance was broke off...But yeah, such an awesome book!!
It's pretty much just as amazing as the first one. Oh my God I love it so much.
Hm, I think I like this one less than the first one because I find the setup with Liam being forced to marry Briar and then her forcing everyone to do what she wants to be frustrating... because she has no legal authority to demand everything she demands. There's absolutely no reason everyone should be treating her as if she really has the authority she acts like she has. I don't even understand why Liam's parents are still kissing her boots after the marriage, because supposedly they've already gotten what they want from her. And their blindness to the fact that she obviously wants to take what they have rather than give them anything that she has (which is why they wanted the wedding in the first place) is also very frustrating.
Aside from that, though, the good guys remain very likable and fun, and it was still an enjoyable story. Not as epic as the first one was, though. They didn't do much traveling or adventuring. They kind of spent all their time planning for most of the book. Still, if you liked the first, you should read this.
Actually, I think the ending and the progression of some of the relationships makes up a bit for the annoying thing with Briar, so I still really liked this book.
Aside from that, though, the good guys remain very likable and fun, and it was still an enjoyable story. Not as epic as the first one was, though. They didn't do much traveling or adventuring. They kind of spent all their time planning for most of the book. Still, if you liked the first, you should read this.
Actually, I think the ending and the progression of some of the relationships makes up a bit for the annoying thing with Briar, so I still really liked this book.
By any other standard, this is a good book. By the standard set by the first book... this one sucks. I'm sorry. There's no delicate way to put it, I was completely disappointed by how badly it compares.
There's very little character growth. In fact, sometimes it felt like the characters regressed back to how they were at the start of the first book. The one positive surprise was Briar, so you know something's off when I'm rooting for the mean, manipulative princess whoforced Liam to marry her . The jokes are not so funny the second time around, and there were no laugh-out-loud moments this time.
The ending was an abrupt, sad mess, and now I've got to read the third book or be left hanging. With this mindset, it's obvious that I'm so not going to enjoy it. Plus, it's obvious that it's heading towards every prince finding their twu wuv, andFrederic-Rapunzel-Gustav are having the same dumb "in love with her but mistakenly believes she's in love with someone else" bullpoop plot that Liam-Ella-Frederic had in the first book.
The first book was absolutely perfect on its own, stretching it into a trilogy kills it.
There's very little character growth. In fact, sometimes it felt like the characters regressed back to how they were at the start of the first book. The one positive surprise was Briar, so you know something's off when I'm rooting for the mean, manipulative princess who
The ending was an abrupt, sad mess, and now I've got to read the third book or be left hanging. With this mindset, it's obvious that I'm so not going to enjoy it. Plus, it's obvious that it's heading towards every prince finding their twu wuv, and
The first book was absolutely perfect on its own, stretching it into a trilogy kills it.