Reviews - The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk

461 reviews for:

The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk

Carissa Broadbent

4.26 AVERAGE

marinrosee's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous 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

kherin's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kira_klara's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark 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

randileavesreality's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional slow-paced

jod87's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: Complicated

micahsmom's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

cornflakegirrrl's review against another edition

3.5

I’ll read and love anything Carissa Broadbent writes. She’s my favorite Romantasy writer, hands down. But I was so lost in this book, even though I read all the preceding ones and a recap beforehand. Part of the reason — and I know this is dumb — is that everyone’s name is so similar: Acaeja, Alarus, Asar, Atroxus, and Ashraj. I’m happy to consult a glossary to keep up but, dude. Then, the kingdoms are talked about as if they are people, which is fine except I was constantly confusing the night, death, and shadow houses because they’re similar concepts in my brain and while I was working out if I should remember if this is a building or a person, plot was happening and I had to reread. (Before you think I’m a moron, Broadbent likes to make some of her houses sentient, so this is a legitimate distraction.) Also, Mische is dead, not dead, dead, not dead, and a wraith but not really but kinda and they’re in hell, they aren’t, they are, they aren’t and just tracking WHERE THEY WERE and who was alive was so hard. And it was kinda important to keep track because those were the stakes (seeing if Mische and Asar could find their way back to each other). But the book before this was a “find these artifacts and save the vampires” narrative so I was a little bummed that this book was like “ok now find 3 artifacts and save the UNDERworld.” We could’ve mixed that up a little. I didn’t know why we were saving the underworld. What happens if all the souls escape? Why is Vincent suddenly here, not here, here, not really? If Mische made the world eternally dark in the last book, aren’t we all good because in this world, we care about the vampires? What’re the other wars even about? I’m all for a good Hades and Persephone inspired narrative. I worked my ass of to read book two of daughters of no world having no idea who the fuck Aefe was and it payed off in spades. I can only trust the same will happen with follow up books here. My recommendation? Read with your compendium REAL CLOSE.