Reviews - The House of Always

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307 reviews for:

The House of Always

Jenn Lyons

4.2 AVERAGE

chattie_the_mad_chatter's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

This series hits new levels with book 3 and then continues in this book. All the ground of the first 2 books are massively paying off!

I love the storytelling frame of these (I don't care how realistic people find it - the ride is fantastic) but just having a group of characters we love all in the same place reliving moments that lead to how they got there, with all the messy-ness of those reveals is so delicious!

There's a very key plot point this book needs to unpack and I think it reflects the importance of it giving the big moment we left on in book 3.

This is a huge moment for all the characters to sort themselves out, deal with their fears, mistrust, anger, love and all the ships!

I love seeing some of my favourites from book one back in the spotlight as well as loving all of our mains and their frenemies!

Jen Lyons dialogue rich in snark and sarcasm (snarckasim if you will) is always the shiny star of this series, still just having the edge for me over her incredibly well thought out plot that we now see piecing together beautifully

Terrified and delighted to get to the final installment and conclude this fantastic chaotic amazing series that I have fallen in love with!

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arydecker's review against another edition

5.0

I can’t get over how good this series is like I literally can’t stop thinking about it since I started the first book in February?!? Lyons’ storytelling choices are amazing imo, so creative!! I’m completely obsessed.

nuaxu's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious 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

xdooniz2407's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious slow-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

cammiixy's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

pennym_'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

not my favorite book in the series, but i still enjoyed it for the most part. i do think kalindra's storyline took up too many pages, since she hasn't been an important side character at all up until now (and arguably still isn't that important, depending on what happens in the last book i guess). i had to look her up to refresh my memory on who she even was. i think this book had the best message,

with the integration of kihrin and vol karoth

but the actual framing or method of telling the story and the constant jumping between times, places, etc., was not as enjoyable for me as it has been in the previous books. that said, though, i still had a good time and am looking forward to seeing how everything gets wrapped up!