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magnafeana's review against another edition
3.0
I read this series last year, but I did a reread and I have some thoughts.
So in this mythical world Eria (Alfheim) and the human world are woven together by a thing veil, the hotheaded, independent human Maggie (h) is stuck with cool and arrogant King Talion
As other people mentioned, I disliked Maggie immensely. She wasn’t being witty or smart—she was being stupid and petty. And Talion pettily driving miscommunications between them when he wants her safe? He intentionally creates OW drama?
Not in my book.
The world building and actual plot? Wonderful! The characters, eh, not so much.
Especially when this all started because of the beaten-like-a-dead-horse ”Oh no, I got so drunk that I can’t remember anything!” Vegas wedding trope.
3.75 ⭐️s rounded down.
So in this mythical world Eria (Alfheim) and the human world are woven together by a thing veil, the hotheaded, independent human Maggie (h) is stuck with cool and arrogant King Talion
As other people mentioned, I disliked Maggie immensely. She wasn’t being witty or smart—she was being stupid and petty. And Talion pettily driving miscommunications between them when he wants her safe? He intentionally creates OW drama?
Not in my book.
The world building and actual plot? Wonderful! The characters, eh, not so much.
Especially when this all started because of the beaten-like-a-dead-horse ”Oh no, I got so drunk that I can’t remember anything!” Vegas wedding trope.
3.75 ⭐️s rounded down.
gottbooks's review
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
4.5
I would have rated this higher but the ending felt super forced. It wrapped up rather quickly which felt a little off. Otherwise LOVED IT.
alejandra_guerrero's review
2.0
Though this book is presented as a standalone, it's not. There are a lot of things that are mentioned in the first book that you need to know in order to fully enjoy this story. I was 10% into this book when I just had to stop and read the first book in the series (Bound to the elven prince).
Now, there were moments when I just HATED Talion. He's a manipulative SOB. Lies, half-truths, he seems to be incapable of telling the truth to Maggie most of the time, and when he does, it's because it benefits HIM, or he can't hide it any longer. Maggie is exasperating as the heroine; she was a nice sidekick for Cal, but alone she's just annoyingly stubborn, and as much a liar as Talion. At some point I just wished she would leave his manipulative ass, just because he was so sure she would forgive him everything (because of the bond; sometimes I hate the way authors completely eliminate choice for their characters).
As for the conflict with the darkindred, which started in the first book and in this one we're just dumped in the middle of (and part of the reason I just had to stop and read that other book first), it gets solved too quickly and some of the "important" things that were supposed to happen (from some profecy) happen off the page. We're told they happened, which is kinda dissapointing for me. And the way we're told they happened didn't make much sense to me. That was anticlimactic. Overall entertaining, though.
Now, there were moments when I just HATED Talion. He's a manipulative SOB. Lies, half-truths, he seems to be incapable of telling the truth to Maggie most of the time, and when he does, it's because it benefits HIM, or he can't hide it any longer. Maggie is exasperating as the heroine; she was a nice sidekick for Cal, but alone she's just annoyingly stubborn, and as much a liar as Talion. At some point I just wished she would leave his manipulative ass, just because he was so sure she would forgive him everything (because of the bond; sometimes I hate the way authors completely eliminate choice for their characters).
As for the conflict with the darkindred, which started in the first book and in this one we're just dumped in the middle of (and part of the reason I just had to stop and read that other book first), it gets solved too quickly and some of the "important" things that were supposed to happen (from some profecy) happen off the page. We're told they happened, which is kinda dissapointing for me. And the way we're told they happened didn't make much sense to me. That was anticlimactic. Overall entertaining, though.
izziede's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the story to a point but both Talion and Maggie got on my nerves, I didn't like either of them. He is too arrogant, he enjoys getting her riled but its to a point where she feels hurt. She comes across to me as childish.
izziede's review
3.0
I liked the story to a point but both Talion and Maggie got on my nerves, I didn't like either of them. He is too arrogant, he enjoys getting her riled but its to a point where she feels hurt. She comes across to me as childish.
aquavenatus's review
5.0
I loved this one more than the first one in the series. I am looking forward to reading more about the Kingdom of Eria.
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