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taaya's review
challenging
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I don't get it...
I'm missing so much world building. How are the magical people organised? There is an old witches retirement home, so there must be a witch community. Where there is a community, there have to be laws or at least rules. So how can it be that Trinity has to hide from other magical folk? That theykilled her grandma and nobody cared?
And if she only has to hide from magical folk and has a cursed love life - but seems to not be bisexual or pansexual - why doesn't she have any female non-witchy friends? Why does she have to do this "Oh no, I'm all alone in the world except for my pet demon" thing?
And also, gosh, girl, buy yourself a sex toy! If every man you ever see immediately makes you think of oh no, you can't get together with him, because of your curse, there really is something wrong with you. But not the way you think. (And darling, that's not your heart. Love takes 6-8 months to form.)
Finally,did I miss any revelation of Dante putting her under a love spell? Because she's ALWAYS annoyed of him - rightfully so, I have seldomly grimaced in disgust about a guy that often BEFORE he's revealed to be the villain - and then she almost jumps him anyway. Without a love spell that doesn't make any sense and makes her seem even more desperate to just get laid. Yuck!
In the end a book that solely focuses on men. There's not a single female character apart from the protagonist. Even the male demon familiar is bossing her around. And most of it has an undertone of "romance". I don't get where the reviews claiming that this was a fantasy with only a romance subplot came from. The book focuses on little other than which guy will get the girl in the end.And as a good damsel in distress she was saved by a guy in the end, too. Oh, right, she could free another guy when there were no stakes left and she had all the time in the world, that has to be worth something, I guess.
There was potential in there to be an enjoyable story (for me), but unfortunately it always steered away from where the plot would have had to go to get me to like it.
I'm missing so much world building. How are the magical people organised? There is an old witches retirement home, so there must be a witch community. Where there is a community, there have to be laws or at least rules. So how can it be that Trinity has to hide from other magical folk? That they
And if she only has to hide from magical folk and has a cursed love life - but seems to not be bisexual or pansexual - why doesn't she have any female non-witchy friends? Why does she have to do this "Oh no, I'm all alone in the world except for my pet demon" thing?
And also, gosh, girl, buy yourself a sex toy! If every man you ever see immediately makes you think of oh no, you can't get together with him, because of your curse, there really is something wrong with you. But not the way you think. (And darling, that's not your heart. Love takes 6-8 months to form.)
Finally,
In the end a book that solely focuses on men. There's not a single female character apart from the protagonist. Even the male demon familiar is bossing her around. And most of it has an undertone of "romance". I don't get where the reviews claiming that this was a fantasy with only a romance subplot came from. The book focuses on little other than which guy will get the girl in the end.
There was potential in there to be an enjoyable story (for me), but unfortunately it always steered away from where the plot would have had to go to get me to like it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Death, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Vomit, Stalking, and Chronic illness
Minor: Alcohol
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