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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
It was surface level. Needed more meat to the plot and world building. Conversations were confusing and characters not well built. I hoped it would get better…sigh
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Fantasy books need to either be huge enough to be a door stop or at least be a duology, a trilogy at most. All this to say, this was a very nice book, but I needed more. The world-building was very surface level. I wanted to know more about the Seelie, Unseelie, and the world and its creatures. Give me lore, give me fae politics, give me something to sink my teeth into.
Atakan is, quite frankly, an asshole. It’s giving bully romance, and despite my raving reviews of Zodiac Academy, that’s really not my jam. I want to say there was some found family in there, but again, very surface level.
Now, I love me a good enemies to lovers plot and we were in there, good... for like two seconds. What about the angst? The yearning? The delicious, slow-burn tension? Total wasted opportunity.
The dirty talk was cringe and honestly sir, excuse me sir. You are blonde. Calm down with the audacity. You, your sunshine hair, and your lack of depth need to take several.
Honestly, at some point I was hoping for a hot dark-haired Unseelie to come and kidnap the FMC. My girl deserved more excitement. And then it happened and wow, fireworks. This man said to her, "I will give you everything a female wants. All you need to do is let me... good food, good literature, good housing, good sex." Girl, you would trade this for the man who tried to murder you? Is this even a contest?
And then wham. What do you mean the evil Cassian-lookalike shadow daddy is actually evil? Who has ever heard of an evil shadow daddy? You see this? This is why I have trust issues.
Honestly, I really just disliked the prince as an MMC, and I am so bitter about how this all played out. Can you tell?
Atakan is, quite frankly, an asshole. It’s giving bully romance, and despite my raving reviews of Zodiac Academy, that’s really not my jam. I want to say there was some found family in there, but again, very surface level.
Now, I love me a good enemies to lovers plot and we were in there, good... for like two seconds. What about the angst? The yearning? The delicious, slow-burn tension? Total wasted opportunity.
The dirty talk was cringe and honestly sir, excuse me sir. You are blonde. Calm down with the audacity. You, your sunshine hair, and your lack of depth need to take several.
Honestly, at some point I was hoping for a hot dark-haired Unseelie to come and kidnap the FMC. My girl deserved more excitement. And then it happened and wow, fireworks. This man said to her, "I will give you everything a female wants. All you need to do is let me... good food, good literature, good housing, good sex." Girl, you would trade this for the man who tried to murder you? Is this even a contest?
And then wham. What do you mean the evil Cassian-lookalike shadow daddy is actually evil? Who has ever heard of an evil shadow daddy? You see this? This is why I have trust issues.
Honestly, I really just disliked the prince as an MMC, and I am so bitter about how this all played out. Can you tell?
I read this review and agreed completely, so didn’t want to finish:
I am going to be honest, I got recommened this and I wish I had not listened to the recommendation.
I am going to be honest, I got recommened this and I wish I had not listened to the recommendation.
The book sucks. I'm sorry to those who like it, but it does. People can tell me all they want that it is "a darker type of book" but its just not done well. I don't mind reading darker romances but they require characters who actually have depth to them beyond "hurdur bad boy and hehe I hate evil but I just adore his darkness even if I dont know why!" and this book does not have that. At all. It also imo, is a book that was rushed. It actually could have been longer or been a duology to give us that expanded character growth and depth that we needed to see.
The blurb makes you think your going to get this like long drawn out back and forth between the FMC and MMC and then...we get a thing with a snake and a poison drink. And that's kinda it. I wanted so much more to it than that. I wanted to see actual cat and mouse banter and stuff. And we just didn't get it. And I'll be honest, the spicy scenes were not it either. They kinda just made me go "what the fuck am I reading!?"
I found the middle of the book dragged like all hell then the end was way to rushed. So the character development I wanted to see from characters like the MMC just wasn't there, it was told to us it was happening, sort of. Yet not shown. And I hate that. Then it's kinda just hey presto we are done, hope you enjoyed reading.
No, no I did not enjoy reading and I probably should have dnf'd it instead of forcing myself to finish.
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Loved this. They hated I each other and I ate it up. Still trying to find another romance like this one.
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Love knows no bounds for mortals and has no ends for faeries.
I didn’t massively enjoy the different times they met over the years but it made their first interactions feel realistic and spread out rather than the usual i hate you but love you in minute one
Besides i find myself poisoned by thoughts of ruining only one dreadful little creature.
I am no longer so little
I can see that. He glanced pointedly at my chest.
Don’t like dread as a nickname. Or Monster.
Chapter 11 when they have sex in the shed after he finds her in the woods
Does his eyes change colour when he is horny??
Part 2
Some of the writing is a bit clunky, show vs tell.
I wasn’t thankful. I was stuck yet again, and with yet another royal who intended to hse me for their own gain.
I have no desire to repeat words I’ve already spoken
The dream she has in the bonelands- is it a mating bond with one of them giving insight into their mind? Atakin? Who is the wolf shifter?
So there must be a pytherion at some point point
He is but a pretty portrait to veil the evil lurking within.
Her finding out that Vake killed her father and made it look like Atakan and his father. Stone being a spy for the other side.
Chapter 27
Why do they have so much blood involved with everything?! Also the blood from his father’s heart on her lips 🤮
Chapter 30
So Vane and Atakan are half siblings? What impact does queen Kalista living have on the two kingdoms? Would she rule either - Unseelie? If she returned?
Pholly and Phineus’ father leaving, was that to accompany Kalista?
Used my body to milk his cock 🤮
Why go with Vane at the castle?
adventurous
dark
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
I think this book was over-hyped. I found it to be “meh”. I was looking for a stand alone after readying so many series, but was left unsatisfied. Several conversations were tough to follow bc you couldn’t decipher exactly who was speaking.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes