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Enchantra by Kaylie Smith

44 reviews

that_awkwardbook's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

I loved it more than the first one. I'm a sucker for a shadow daddy. But this had all my favorite tropes:

Reluctant allies
Hidden identitys
Forced proximity
Forced marriage
Fake marriage
One bed

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mary_catherine's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ich habe ein Rezensionsexemplar vom Verlag, Aufbau Digital, über Netgalley Deutschland erhalten. Diese Rezension ist unbezahlt und alle Meinungen sind meine eigenen.

Eigentliches Rating: 2.5

Ich mochte die Cameos von Ophie und Salem zum Ende des Buches.
Genevieve ist eine richtig nervige weibliche Hauptfigur, und zu ihrem marriage of convenience Ehemann Rowin hat sie trotz expliziter sexueller Eskapaden ziemlich wenig Anziehungskraft.

Man merkt, dass sich Smith sehr stark von Ready or Not (2019) hat inspirieren lassen, und während Fans dieses Filmes hier vielleicht auf ihre Kosten kommen mögen, ist die Handlung der Jagd im Vergleich zu den Spielen in Phantasma doch recht zahm.

Dazu ist das Buch am Anfang sehr in die Länge gezogen, und mann muss mindestens durch 1/3 unnötige Infos durch, bevor die Jagd, und damit die eigentliche Handlung des Buches, beginnt.

Ebenso sollte man das Buch nicht als enemies to lovers beschreiben (wie es die Autorin selbst tut), da Rowin Und Vivi zu keinem Zeitpunkt wirklich befeindet wahren. Sie treten immerhin als Ehepaar und damit als Team bei der Jagd an.
Eine andere Trope, die Leser*innen stören dürfte, ist die memory loss trope, verbunden mit einem finalen Plottwist, der nicht gerade sehr zufriedenstellend war.

Ich würde das Buch nicht empfehlen.
Meiner Meinung nach sind die Figuren kaum auszuhalten und die Handlung ist langweilig — bei weitem nicht so voll mit Blut, Tod und Nervenkitzel wie Phantasma; ein Buch, was wahrscheinlich besser als alleinstehendes Buch funktioniert hätte.

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carlyjoann's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

While I wasn’t as into this book as the first it was still a pretty fun ride in a dark world.
The idea of Enchantra and the Hunt is so sad.

Having the siblings kill each other year after year to keep their mother alive is twisted. But it’s a dark book so.

Genevieve was a typical FMC and Rowin a typical shadowy MMC. They were cute once they fell for each other and I liked them well enough.
The siblings and all the relationships between them were interesting to explore though.
It felt like the book ended so fast and while we got explanations it felt very rushed.
I’m assuming there will be another book in the series to tie up the rest of the loose ends from this one.

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atsy6's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I thought this would be too similar to Phantasma but it was just different enough. I really felt for the Silver family, and was rooting for them. It has good pacing and is intriquing. The audiobook was well done even with a single narrator, Laura Horowitz does a really good job.

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aniajo's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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neeeeeeee's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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chanlo1994's review

4.5

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Another excellent installment to the wicked games series,

and it seems like there will be another one??

I was really enjoying all of the characters, even the "bad" guys. I also loved the spicy events that happened.

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gretalinners's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Complicated

This one was a gorgeous read. I fell in love with Kaylie Smith after reading the absolute gem that is Phantasma, however its little sister didn't click with me as much as its predecessor did.

This review may contain light spoilers.

Transparently, Phantasma was a five-star read for me (which is not overly common). This meant that this book was going to be unavoidably compared to Phantasma and for this reason its minor short fallings were all the more apparent to me. As such, take my review with this in mind.

I would like to start with Genevieve. I really loved her in Phantasma and enjoyed seeing her character being fleshed out in this book. Loved some confident plus-size FMC representation and thought she was such a gorgeous character. However, I did take issue with some of her stubbornness. It is a personal pet peeve of mine when it comes to FMCs and at about the half-way mark it got a bit much for me. It made Genevieve decently less likeable than her older sister, admittedly.

I loved seeing Genevieve's perspective on the Grimm family affair. I was absolutely in love with the way Ophelia's bittersweet resentment to her family that she processed throughout her novel was portrayed, and I was not disappointed at all by Genevieve doing something similar, but from a different positionality. Absolute chefs kiss with this here and found Genevieve's inner conflict here all the more compelling coming straight off the back of Phantasma. However, even independent from the previous book, those themes of feeling like an afterthought and being the daughter undeserving of legacy and (tough) love was heart-wrenching and wonderfully written.

Now, our dark, gorgeous Rowan. One of the reasons I loved Blackwell so much was because he was not the conventional 'shadow daddy' that seems to oversaturate this genre. Although Rowan fits perfectly into this stereotype, I thought Smith wrote him relatively well. Love a possessive, morally-grey man and really ended up loving him despite some of his irrational, 'alpha wolf' tendencies. Although he isn't anything ground-breaking, he is certainly one of the better MMCs out there within the genre. The best thing about Rowan honestly were his tattoos and PIERCINGS (as a self-proclaimed lover of alternative men) gosh they were unbelievably sexy!!!

Rowan and Genevieve had a great dynamic. Admittedly, marriages of convenience are amongst some of my least favourite romance tropes. However I actually quite enjoyed this one. I love an angsty enemies-to-lovers number and the arrangement accompanied it quite beautifully. The denial of feelings and attraction to one another was so sexy and they were truly an explosive duo. The spice was also delicious, though it didn't feel as passionate as it did with Ophelia and Blackwell (there's my Phantasma bias creeping back in again) though I guess this was the point at times given their whole 'no feelings' thing they had going on for a whole two seconds.

The side characters really impressed me! I loved all of the siblings and their unique personalities - Sevin was certainly a favourite of mine. Although, their full names were God awful and I am so glad that the book was self-aware of this fact (it was quite funny seeing them all listed out there on the page, actually).

Now for a bit on the plot. I was quite impressed with the way the book still had that trial-style action without being a carbon copy of Phantasma. I thought it was actually quite unique and the personal nature of the conflict was incredibly memorable. However, I was not incredibly invested in the subplot regarding Rowan's mother and the crimson rot. I also thought Knox was not as foreboding of a villain as I thought he could have been. The ending also was not as impactful as I would have liked it and I found myself losing interest slightly by the last couple of chapters.

In sum, although Phantasma was tough to follow, this book did not disappoint. If you are a lover of the dark romance genre, you'd be doing a disservice to yourself by not picking this one up.

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jls6283's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I didn’t gobble this one up quite as much as the first, but it was definitely cute and I loved the ending 🩶 (And Umbra!)

I did feel like a lot of questions/theories I had towards the beginning/middle were never answered or explained especially about

their mother and the Crimson Rot…

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