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A Curse Carved in Bone: Saga of the Unfated, Book 2 by Danielle L. Jensen
27 reviews
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, War
That being said, I was hooked by this story. Freya and Bjorn’s chemistry and their ability to twist the threads of fate kept me interested. This book was harder to love than its predecessor, with much more violence and death and much less sexual tension. Themes of distrust, manipulation, and grief are thick.
The big plot twist and subsequent details left me genuinely sick to my stomach, and then the story moved right into a what felt like a somehow rushed yet rambling and too-magical conclusion. Certain points of high tension were introduced and then resolved without much thought or narration, while others dragged on gruesomely. As a reader, I would have liked time to process the trauma alongside the characters after the climax, rather than rush through the events to the conclusion.
I need to make an extra therapy appointment and go reread The Spellshop.
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I’ll write a better review after I process the story. My initial thoughts are:
-more strife, less spice than AFIIB
-I love the women in this book—equal parts viciously mean and compassionate
-once again I had to lock myself in the bathroom because my emotional outbursts about the plot twists were confusing my toddler
-ending felt a little rushed, a little too magical
-I hoped for more spice, not less, after the 1st book was the slowest burn with so much teasing
-really WTF just happened though
-I was hooked from start to finish, overall really enjoyed the book
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Freya, she annoyed me so much in the beginning. I was trying to be on her side, but she came across as brat. Why are FMC's like this? 🙄
Poor Bjorn. He tried and tried to do the right thing IMO. I'm glad he got a HEA.
The plot is good, I enjoyed it. Shame it was a slow start.
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Vomit, Cannibalism
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, War
Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment
Minor: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Excrement, Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol
I enjoyed the big mystery reveal and the action that was caused by this. I really think this only made up about 1/3 of the book and could have been a little more of a focus then the back and forth between Freya and Bjorn.
Great wrap up for the duology otherwise.
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
I'm pleased it's only a duology, dragging this would have been too much. I kept on getting confused between some characters (Skade and the skald) mainly because the name and profession read the same in my dyslexic head, so got confused more than once. Otherwise, good twists and a lot of death.
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War
Moderate: Child abuse, Vomit, Kidnapping
Minor: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail
I found the pacing of this book dreadfully slow at times. The plot points seem to have such a reflective hold over the MCs that it stopped them from progressing or pushing the story. There were several points where I was frustrated and annoyed with the MCs because it was almost too much reflection, where holding onto an emotion or waiting for something to happen but nothing would happen for chapters at a time. Sometimes all this reflection made past story arcs or plot points virtually pointless at the end. This definitely lowers the quality of the storyline itself. But the Worldbuilding continued to be amazing, the characters multifaceted. I would have loved more ties into the Nordic gods and their direct roles in this second book throughout rather than just at the end.
Graphic: Violence, War
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Gore