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felofhe's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Classism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Torture
vittorioseg's review against another edition
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
This are two novellas who were forcefully mashed together and added 200 pages of bland filling. It never go anywhere, it barely had jokes, the stakes were nonexistent in the "prank" war of the gentleman bastard and it was worldbuilding that ended, once again, with John and Locke with nothing. This was just filler for, I think, the second series. Background of the sad and tragic
figure that is Locke of the second trilogy and my god, it was boring. It was tedious. I laughed in some instances, sure, but you can cut 2/3 of the book and it would lose nothing. This should have been a novella. A 200 pages novella at most, an interlude between here and the actual meat of the series.
But I honestly don't think there is anything else for the series. The introduction of the dark forces and eldritch bullshit just made it trite. The author can write romance at all and the reincarnation angle just made Locke more insubstantial, more a pastiche than anything noteworthy. This was just a tour of how utterly eclipsed the gentleman bastards are in the world, how insignificant, how much they can fall (just like last book) and I guess its an honest representation of the depression of the author, but its not worthy the time I put with it.
figure that is Locke of the second trilogy and my god, it was boring. It was tedious. I laughed in some instances, sure, but you can cut 2/3 of the book and it would lose nothing. This should have been a novella. A 200 pages novella at most, an interlude between here and the actual meat of the series.
But I honestly don't think there is anything else for the series. The introduction of the dark forces and eldritch bullshit just made it trite. The author can write romance at all and the reincarnation angle just made Locke more insubstantial, more a pastiche than anything noteworthy. This was just a tour of how utterly eclipsed the gentleman bastards are in the world, how insignificant, how much they can fall (just like last book) and I guess its an honest representation of the depression of the author, but its not worthy the time I put with it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, and Child death
Moderate: Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief
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