Reviews - Storm of Secrets and Sorrow

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Storm of Secrets and Sorrow

Melissa K. Roehrich

4.11 AVERAGE

laurverdi's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

megthebookgoblin's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark 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: Yes

laylavv's review against another edition

3.5

slow-paced

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

When will fantasy authors realise that massively long books don't = good plot lines. It would be good if it didn't keep going around in repetitive circles.
I like Luka- ish.

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harriet44's review

2.75

DNFing this series, gave so much time for the FMC to break out and felt like kept getting nothing and then suddenly at the end she's done all these things that weren't explored or set up for.

airdriesg's review against another edition

5.0

I finished this book months ago, but it's really hard to review and even harder to rate.

The beginning of this book continued to be a slog. I don't think Theon is anyone's idea of a dream man, but this author seems to love herself a morally gray male, so there's nothing that's going to end this pairing, it seems.

Still, there were LOTS of things to love in this book, particularly Tessa coming into her own power. I waited sooooooo long for her to start kicking ass and taking names and I WAS IN NO WAY DISAPPOINTED with how this book ended. In fact, the ending of this book was one of the better satisfying endings I've ever read in a book.

There is nothing worse than a revenge story where either the person wanting revenge changes their mind: love, learns to be a better person, or half-heartedly quits at the end, etc. I am happy to say that Roerich understands punishing bad behavior quite well.

BTW- if you do love a satisfying revenge storyline, I recommend any of a plethora of Korean Drama revenge stories. The Glory is excellent.