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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
A good story
This a good story and the author told it well. The magic world is interesting and I will be reading the next book. I liked the writing style but there were some repetitions that could’ve been edit out. I hope to see improvements in the book.
This a good story and the author told it well. The magic world is interesting and I will be reading the next book. I liked the writing style but there were some repetitions that could’ve been edit out. I hope to see improvements in the book.
If you have read my reviews for Linsey Hall's Dragon's Gift series or my reviews for Ella Summer's Dragon Born series then you can pretty much stop here. These books are just the same thing, mixed up a little and repackaged. Are these three writers all the same person, telling the same story and just laughing at us for continuing to buy their books?
I only gave this book three stars. Not that it isn't a good story. It is. Not that it isn't well told. It is, mostly. Interesting? Yes. Adventurous? Yes. Characters that I can like with wit and charm? Yes. But as in the other series I have mentioned: it is exactly the same story. Chewed up, spit back out, and with a shiny new title. Even the hot guy who is the romantic interest is just as smug, arrogant, and bossy as they were in the other series. Please, if you want to write the same story (beautiful, smart, wicked-cool warrior woman who just happens to be sentenced to die by the magical community for a matter of her birth, so she hides her magic until it is needed to save the world) could you PLEASE, PLEASE make the hot guy love interest at least someone she can relax with and fall in love with and trust and who respects her rights and her feelings? Is it too much to ask that he isn't a jerk who forces her and somehow she likes it? That's just old and tired and totally not how love is supposed to work. So PLEASE.
Ok, three stars. Worth a read. Probably would have given it four stars if I hadn't already read this exact series two times already.
I only gave this book three stars. Not that it isn't a good story. It is. Not that it isn't well told. It is, mostly. Interesting? Yes. Adventurous? Yes. Characters that I can like with wit and charm? Yes. But as in the other series I have mentioned: it is exactly the same story. Chewed up, spit back out, and with a shiny new title. Even the hot guy who is the romantic interest is just as smug, arrogant, and bossy as they were in the other series. Please, if you want to write the same story (beautiful, smart, wicked-cool warrior woman who just happens to be sentenced to die by the magical community for a matter of her birth, so she hides her magic until it is needed to save the world) could you PLEASE, PLEASE make the hot guy love interest at least someone she can relax with and fall in love with and trust and who respects her rights and her feelings? Is it too much to ask that he isn't a jerk who forces her and somehow she likes it? That's just old and tired and totally not how love is supposed to work. So PLEASE.
Ok, three stars. Worth a read. Probably would have given it four stars if I hadn't already read this exact series two times already.
3.5 out of 4.
This first book in an Urban Fantasy series holds much promise. The main character feels interesting, and has some enjoyable dynamics with other characters.
The pacing felt good for the most part, and the writing was consistently excellent.
My main quibble though was with the main character just suddenly revealing a huge secret to another character with very little in the way of decision making at a certain point in the book. The motivation just didn't seem consistent with everything expressed up to that point - and it just threw my enjoyment askew. It feels like a plotting decision made to align and set up things for future books. But as a result everything just felt a little off for me when reading past that point. It dropped it from a 4 star to a 3.5 star book for me.
That being said, I will probably return for book 2 at some point to give the series a further chance to shine.
This first book in an Urban Fantasy series holds much promise. The main character feels interesting, and has some enjoyable dynamics with other characters.
The pacing felt good for the most part, and the writing was consistently excellent.
My main quibble though was with the main character just suddenly revealing a huge secret to another character with very little in the way of decision making at a certain point in the book. The motivation just didn't seem consistent with everything expressed up to that point - and it just threw my enjoyment askew. It feels like a plotting decision made to align and set up things for future books. But as a result everything just felt a little off for me when reading past that point. It dropped it from a 4 star to a 3.5 star book for me.
That being said, I will probably return for book 2 at some point to give the series a further chance to shine.