738 reviews for:

Never Keep

Caroline Peckham

4.02 AVERAGE

graciereadsss's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous 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

sashadiaries's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

jgerber's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bellatonka's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious 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: Complicated

lluwl_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-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

saraconijn's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

melbunfield's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookflix_and_chill_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I loved this book. i felt everything.
it wasn’t just the worldbuilding (though it’s rich and wild and dangerous)—the writing had me gripped.
The emotions? stabbed straight through my heart.
There were moments i gasped, moments i smiled to myself, and a few where i had to just stop and breathe.

Everest Arcadia—broke me. her strength, her pain, her heart.
Vesper—had me hooked, fierce and aching beneath all that armor.
Kaiser Brimtheon—wrapped in shadow, and somehow the one i can’t stop thinking about.
Cayde—cocky, maddening, and impossible to resist.

They’ve all taken something from me, and i’m not getting it back.
I ache for stories like this—the kind that don’t let you go.

sofia_f's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

bensonjackie's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I honestly don’t know what or how to feel about this book. There was a lot of hype around this book, but honestly I don’t see it. There were elements that were fun, tricky and some surprises. However, I felt like this book waited until the last 100 pages for any of the bigger plot to be somewhat revealed to us. The first 150 pages were just not good and I almost DNF after reading those 150 pages but I kept going to see if it got better and it did, but I just felt myself trying to push through the entire book until those last 100 pages where I felt invested. 

With that being said, the 2 female main character which this book focuses on where okay. I was hoping for more character growth or something for me to love these characters but I just felt eh about them (neither love nor hate). Will I read the next one in the series? Probably but I will probably read others before I do that.