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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
Fallon is significantly less annoying in book 2! Thank goodness.
I. Need. Book. Three.
Fallon is still really trying to figure out her place in the world. She knows Lore is the worst and she just wants to go home. But “home” turns out not to be what it once was. And her friends aren’t all still her friends. And her family… she just wants to find them. Then there’s the prophecies and one in particular she swears she’ll never do.
This is a book you will easily lose yourself in. The intricacies of everyone’s relationships and personalities are easy to get caught up in. And things aren’t always as they seem.
I had a feeling the book would end on a cliffhanger and it certainly didn’t disappoint in that regard. I was ready to start yelling at that point!
I keep saying it and I will say it again, don’t sleep on Olivia Wildenstein’s books. Absolutely one of my favorite authors!
Fallon is still really trying to figure out her place in the world. She knows Lore is the worst and she just wants to go home. But “home” turns out not to be what it once was. And her friends aren’t all still her friends. And her family… she just wants to find them. Then there’s the prophecies and one in particular she swears she’ll never do.
This is a book you will easily lose yourself in. The intricacies of everyone’s relationships and personalities are easy to get caught up in. And things aren’t always as they seem.
I had a feeling the book would end on a cliffhanger and it certainly didn’t disappoint in that regard. I was ready to start yelling at that point!
I keep saying it and I will say it again, don’t sleep on Olivia Wildenstein’s books. Absolutely one of my favorite authors!
adventurous
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:
No
adventurous
challenging
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
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
WHAT is wrong with these characters?
Also Sylvius is poor excuse for a human being possibly because he isn't human, he's fae (also he's a massive dckhole, too obvs).
But I'm noticing a trend in these new fae books lately where authors keep using human, human being, and humanity for fae and other fantasy races. And... I know it's hard to find something fitting to replace those phrases with, but please try! It's very jarring to read, pulls you out of the moment.
Miscommunication trope wasn't well done, so it didn't make sense.
Also why is nobody talking about Dante and Fallon being related?
Also Sylvius is poor excuse for a human being possibly because he isn't human, he's fae (also he's a massive dckhole, too obvs).
But I'm noticing a trend in these new fae books lately where authors keep using human, human being, and humanity for fae and other fantasy races. And... I know it's hard to find something fitting to replace those phrases with, but please try! It's very jarring to read, pulls you out of the moment.
Miscommunication trope wasn't well done, so it didn't make sense.
Also why is nobody talking about Dante and Fallon being related?
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
[Fair warning, I'm pissed the hell off and there's gonna be a bunch of expletive-slinging in this review. Also probably spoilers.]
You know how sometimes a book/series gets so hyped up and you've got such HIGH expectations, but then you read it and it's fucking godawful and you start to distrust people's opinions on everything?
That's me, right now. I have lost faith in humanity.
This series got so much good press. Its scores here on goodreads are super high. People on TikTok RAVED about it.
And here I fucking am wishing Fallon was real so I could skin her alive for being the most annoying thing in this whole blighted world.
God damn I hate stubborn, bratty, immature, bitchy main characters. Fallon is a whole ass toddler having the world's biggest tantrum for the first 65% of this stupid book.
I found myself hoping beyond hope that Lore would get sick of her shit and kick her ass out of Monteluce permanently. (And maybe shack up with Pheebs.)
We're probably supposed to be on Fallon's side because <i>Freedooommmmmm</i> or whatever the fuck but honestly? I really don't care because she's being pampered and treated like an absolute queen by Lore and every one of his Crows. Boo-hoo, so sad, she's sooooooooooo oppressed.
Give me a fucking break.
It's really telling that literally <i>everybody</i> in Fallon's friend group is constantly telling her to quit being a whiny little bitch from the very first chapter (and it takes her 40+ chapters and a near-death experience to come to terms with the fact that she's a fucking imbecile who's put everybody she's ever cared about in mortal danger). Literally everything they say to her revolves around her needing a goddamned attitude adjustment. Every single conversation is them mediating her foul mood to try and make peace with the folks who are just trying to get to know her. Or they're trying to stop her from popping off at the mouth and saying or doing something idiotic out of spite for Lore. All while she's stamping her feet and showing her ass like a child.
Fuck her.
Seriously, fuck her.
22 years old going on 3.
How is it this 700+ year old Crow King wants anything to do with her? Mates be damned.
The first half of this book had me HOPING someone would come along and snatch a knot in her ass. The last half I didn't give a shit about because she doesn't deserve an ounce of happiness.
We spend over half the book following miss "I want to choose everything for myself and I know better than everybody" around while she's being jealous as fuck of every woman mentioned in the same sentence as Lore. She also doesn't fucking listen to ANYBODY when they tell her she needs to GTFO--until it's too late and people are dead because of her.
She's so oblivious to her own fucking emotions and the reality of the world around her it makes me want to shake her. Or punch her in her stupid fucking face.
And when the romance (finally) started...I couldn't enjoy it because Fallon had made me loathe her to the point of no return. Not to mention "the shift" comes out of God's blue nowhere. And suddenly she's a different person, willing to acquiesce to Lore's requests. Why do writers do this? Why change a characters whole personality so they can <i>fall in love</i>. If she's a soggy cuntrag for the first 2/3rds of the book, she'd better still be a soggy cuntrag for the last 1/3rd, even if she's getting laid on the reg.
I'm GLAD she ended up where she did at the end of this book. I hope she stays there forever. She'd fucking deserve it.
I don't think I'll be picking up the third book after all because Fallon's in hell at the moment and that's justice enough for being a stupid fucking bitch for the first 2 books in this series. I'm quite happy that she's separated from her lover, and I can imagine that the world moves on pleasantly without her.
Oliva what have you done to me? The <i>Angels of Elysium</i> series was so fucking fantastic. I believed in you and you've betrayed me!
You know how sometimes a book/series gets so hyped up and you've got such HIGH expectations, but then you read it and it's fucking godawful and you start to distrust people's opinions on everything?
That's me, right now. I have lost faith in humanity.
This series got so much good press. Its scores here on goodreads are super high. People on TikTok RAVED about it.
And here I fucking am wishing Fallon was real so I could skin her alive for being the most annoying thing in this whole blighted world.
God damn I hate stubborn, bratty, immature, bitchy main characters. Fallon is a whole ass toddler having the world's biggest tantrum for the first 65% of this stupid book.
I found myself hoping beyond hope that Lore would get sick of her shit and kick her ass out of Monteluce permanently. (And maybe shack up with Pheebs.)
We're probably supposed to be on Fallon's side because <i>Freedooommmmmm</i> or whatever the fuck but honestly? I really don't care because she's being pampered and treated like an absolute queen by Lore and every one of his Crows. Boo-hoo, so sad, she's sooooooooooo oppressed.
Give me a fucking break.
It's really telling that literally <i>everybody</i> in Fallon's friend group is constantly telling her to quit being a whiny little bitch from the very first chapter (and it takes her 40+ chapters and a near-death experience to come to terms with the fact that she's a fucking imbecile who's put everybody she's ever cared about in mortal danger). Literally everything they say to her revolves around her needing a goddamned attitude adjustment. Every single conversation is them mediating her foul mood to try and make peace with the folks who are just trying to get to know her. Or they're trying to stop her from popping off at the mouth and saying or doing something idiotic out of spite for Lore. All while she's stamping her feet and showing her ass like a child.
Fuck her.
Seriously, fuck her.
22 years old going on 3.
How is it this 700+ year old Crow King wants anything to do with her? Mates be damned.
The first half of this book had me HOPING someone would come along and snatch a knot in her ass. The last half I didn't give a shit about because she doesn't deserve an ounce of happiness.
We spend over half the book following miss "I want to choose everything for myself and I know better than everybody" around while she's being jealous as fuck of every woman mentioned in the same sentence as Lore. She also doesn't fucking listen to ANYBODY when they tell her she needs to GTFO--until it's too late and people are dead because of her.
She's so oblivious to her own fucking emotions and the reality of the world around her it makes me want to shake her. Or punch her in her stupid fucking face.
And when the romance (finally) started...I couldn't enjoy it because Fallon had made me loathe her to the point of no return. Not to mention "the shift" comes out of God's blue nowhere. And suddenly she's a different person, willing to acquiesce to Lore's requests. Why do writers do this? Why change a characters whole personality so they can <i>fall in love</i>. If she's a soggy cuntrag for the first 2/3rds of the book, she'd better still be a soggy cuntrag for the last 1/3rd, even if she's getting laid on the reg.
I'm GLAD she ended up where she did at the end of this book. I hope she stays there forever. She'd fucking deserve it.
I don't think I'll be picking up the third book after all because Fallon's in hell at the moment and that's justice enough for being a stupid fucking bitch for the first 2 books in this series. I'm quite happy that she's separated from her lover, and I can imagine that the world moves on pleasantly without her.
Oliva what have you done to me? The <i>Angels of Elysium</i> series was so fucking fantastic. I believed in you and you've betrayed me!
adventurous
challenging
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix