3.25 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional mysterious 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
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The lack of character development makes the book difficult to read 

erinlarahodgson's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

DNF at like 60% I think. I have been trying to read this book for a month and it is just too cringey. The main character is incredibly irritating and if I am supposed to be impressed
she risked her own life running into a fight she couldn't handle for "her people," I'm not. She just put everyone more at risk due to her own hubris.
Irritating.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: Yes

Jesus Christ. This was terrible.

Isolde’s mood swings were back in full effect and apparently the only way Tristan knows how to deal with her is to just have sex with her. And what bland, boring sex it was.

Some absolutely ridiculous stuff (even within the context of the universe) happened and the characters just totally swept it under the rug and moved on like nothing happened. Everything that could have been a major plot point was just absolutely nothing.

These two have the chemistry of a couple forced at gunpoint.

I don’t know what I just read. I almost DNF, but was curious as to whether the author would circle back to the plot. Which they did towards the last few chapters… somewhat. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a decent amount of spice some time to time. But, here, I felt the plot and spicy scenes were just mashed together. Overall, it felt the plot fell little flat and some of the spicy scenes cringy.
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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
adventurous dark emotional 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

norinda's review

3.25
adventurous medium-paced