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Direbound

Sable Sorensen

4.31 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

 Everyone has been raving about this book so of course I had to do read it! Fourth Wing but make it wolves, you say? Gimme, gimme, gimme! And yes, I loved it, I truly did. I love the slum/urban setting of Sturmfrost that we open up to, especially the fact that Meryn is an underground street fighter - I really enjoyed that aspect! I really loved the world building too, it's not complicated but it sets a nice scene and history to carry the story.

Meryn aims to join the front line in a war against the vampires for her sister's sake and ends up on the path to becoming bonded with a direwolf and I really loved this. From the moment she reaches the castle, the training, the classes, the trials and the losses she has to endure to prove herself fully bonded is exhilarating. There is so much action and excitement in the middle of this book that it never seems to drag.

Throughout the story there is this constant feel of dread that lingers, as if you don't really know who to trust. I really enjoyed all the mystery, all the little things that made me feel like certain things were suspicious or didn't make sense and I think that there were some really bloody good plot twists in the story. I was hooked! I can't say anything about the romance though because that would be a huge spoiler. The ending was absolutely insane and I cannot wait for Fury Bound.
 
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

Holy cow! This book had so many jaw dropping moments I was on the edge of my seat. I wasn't bored for a moment and the ending was absolutely perfect leaving me wanting to desperately read book 2 ASAP! It's release can't come soon enough!!
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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: Yes
adventurous 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
adventurous emotional mysterious 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: Complicated
adventurous 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
adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I enjoyed the premise of this book however the absolute lack of character development pissed me off to the point I almost dnfed multiple times.
adventurous emotional funny fast-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
adventurous 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