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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
Ganz ganz ganz große Liebe!
Obwohl ich zwischendurch immer wieder mal pausieren musste, weil alles irgendwie zu viel geworden ist, war dieses Buch so vollgepackt mit Emotionen, Spannend, Wendungen und Charakterentwicklungen.
Mein Herz hat gelitten, gehofft, gebangt und geliebt. Teilweise alles in einem Kapitel.
Obwohl ich zwischendurch immer wieder mal pausieren musste, weil alles irgendwie zu viel geworden ist, war dieses Buch so vollgepackt mit Emotionen, Spannend, Wendungen und Charakterentwicklungen.
Mein Herz hat gelitten, gehofft, gebangt und geliebt. Teilweise alles in einem Kapitel.
MADRE MIA QUE BRUTALIDAD
Si pudiera poner a un libro veinte estrellas este se llevaba la corona DIOS MIO CASI QUE ROMPO EL LIBRO POR LA INTENSIDAD
Si pudiera poner a un libro veinte estrellas este se llevaba la corona DIOS MIO CASI QUE ROMPO EL LIBRO POR LA INTENSIDAD
adventurous
challenging
emotional
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
love love LOVE the plot this book. lots of adventure, new characters. all the pining. great installment!
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was okay..
I very much enjoyed the first 2 books but this book just seemed to drag along with not much happening for a good third of it. This was quite a bit more difficult to finish. Lots of googly eyes being made in this book and lots of hip grabbing. On to the next and even longer book
I very much enjoyed the first 2 books but this book just seemed to drag along with not much happening for a good third of it. This was quite a bit more difficult to finish. Lots of googly eyes being made in this book and lots of hip grabbing. On to the next and even longer book
definitely the best one of the series so far.
i still am somewhat aggravated by the amount of loose ends and secrets these books give us. there are still things from book 1 that we just left in the dust and will never be answered, and i have a feeling that will be the case in this book as well. can someone just tell me what happened in those four months?!
anyway. now im going to go deal with the book hangover that is reading all three of these books in less than 24 hours.
i still am somewhat aggravated by the amount of loose ends and secrets these books give us. there are still things from book 1 that we just left in the dust and will never be answered, and i have a feeling that will be the case in this book as well. can someone just tell me what happened in those four months?!
anyway. now im going to go deal with the book hangover that is reading all three of these books in less than 24 hours.
adventurous
medium-paced
The other day I walked into a Barnes and nobles and saw a table full of purple books. Now purple is my favorite color so I was immediately drawn towards it but my footsteps soon slowed as I noticed that the cover style that looked eerily familiar to me. I was filled with dread as I continued to approach the table, unable to stop, like the subject of a Greek tragedy unable to escape their fate. The feeling only grew as I saw the familiar typography style of the title and my heart sank into the bottoms of my shoes as I read the words "Best selling author Tracy Wolff" at the bottom of the page.
SHE'S STILL WRITING THESE???????????????????????? I THOUGHT THAT THIS ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IT I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A TRILOGY BUT APPARRENTLY THERE'S SIX BOOKS???????????? And I know what your saying "Gracie, literally no one is forcing you to read these books you could stop at any time and just forget about them." YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT????????? YOU THINK I LIKE THE FACT THAT I CAN'T LOOK AWAY FROM THIS DUMPSTER FIRE????????????
I needed some time after reading this book to gather my thoughts because it literally fried my brain and sent me into an almost 2 month long reading slump. But I have finally had some distance and am ready to talk about why I think this might be one of, if not THE, worst books I have ever read in my life.
(I would like to make it clear that despite taking 211 notes over the course of reading this book I am not consulting any of them or referring back to the book at all while writing this and so everything I am saying here is based off memory alone so there might be some inaccuracies when it comes to me describing the plot but I do not care because I am not touching that book right now)
I will begin by discussing the heart of any book(perhaps the reason why this book has no heart), the protagonist, Grace. Grace is... how would I describe her? She is perhaps the most self centered character I have ever read. EVERYTHING(and I mean EVERYTHING) revolves around her. Something could happen to any one of the characters and she will immediately make it about the way SHE feels or how it effects HER. All of the side characters only exist to serve her and no one has any storyline that does not directly involve her which makes it really hard to care about any of the side characters because their personalities are so inextricably linked to Grace that it's like they don't really exist on their own. She also suffers from a common problem with YA protagonists which is the fact that she has only been a part of this world for like 2 months but she's already more powerful then everyone else and is now going to be the ruler of the gargoyles or whatever. Her joining the "circle" is the equivalent of Bella from Twilight joining the Volturri immediately after becoming a vampire like do you see how ridiculous that is???? She's a literally teenager whereas everyone else is like thousands of years old and it just feels so ridiculous that she's somehow on everyone else's level despite seemingly never having to struggle for anything. Also she's just really really really annoying.
I would like to take a minute to highlight just how much everything revolves around Grace while also talking about another giant issue I have with this book, which would be the way the author handles her queer characters. In order to do this I am going to use an example from the last book but that carries on into this book, which would be the character Finn. Finn has exactly 2 personality traits, 1: he is Grace's best friend, 2: he is gay. We could even combine those together and just say his one single personality trait is being Grace's Gay Best Friendtm. In the last book Finn came out to Macy as gay and the whole time I was rolling my eyes because it is so painfully obvious that a straight woman is writing this. They cry, hug it out, Grace tells him he has no reason to be ashamed of being gay, Finn tells her he's in love with Jaxon or whatever, blah blah blah, now the author has a token gay character, whoopee. Then literally two pages later Grace thinks about how she wishes that he had not come out to her because it made her feel guilty about the fact that she was dating Jaxon. BITCH??????????? You're telling me that Finn comes out to you, tells you that you are the first person he's ever felt comfortable enough to do that to(even though he's literally hundreds of years old lmao) and you're annoyed at him because it complicates things for you????? There was something so sinister and gross to me about this moment. This moment did get me thinking though about why it even had to exist in the first place. Why do so many straight authors feel the need to work in homophobia into their fantasies when it doesn't serve any narrative function other than to make the main character look good for being an ally? The other example I can think of is in the ACOTAR series by Sarah J Mass where a character comes out to Feyre in the infamous 6 page long monologue. That example is even worse to me because it takes place in a world completely made up. You're really telling me that you came up with a world where you could make anything happen and you chose to include homophobia? While it is true that in Tracy Wolff's series it takes place in a version of this modern world, these characters are thousands of years old, also they're dragons and witches and vampires. It just frustrates me because it's so painfully obvious that it was only included so Grace, the straight woman, could look good. The most irrelevant person in Finn coming out, was Finn himself.
Now I will take a break from the negativity and talk about the one sliver of redemption this book had, which was Macy(of course talking about her will lead to more negativity as I air out my grievances about the way her character is treated). Macy is a sweetheart, she is a little ray of sunshine in the blackhole that is this book, she is the only one with some semblance of a personality, she is the only thing that made me keep going, and I am almost 100% sure that she will be dead by the end of this series so that Grace can be Sadtm about it. Listen, I don't even think Macy is a GOOD character, she suffers from the same fate of every other side character which is that she's kind of only there is serve Grace but every other aspect of these books are so bad that the one character that is slightly better is suddenly the only thing that I care about. Unfortunately she took a hit this book because her boyfriend that she only knew for like a week died at the end of the last book and a lot of her personality this book was being sad about it. HOWEVER she did have something going on with Eden this book and by something I mean they would look at each other every once in a while and I don't care how delusional I am being those two are soulmates and have 1000% more chemistry in the 2 seconds they've had together than Grace has had with hudsen or jaxon in 3 whole books. In fact when it was hinted at that the author was going to pair macy up with another random man I flew into a fit of rage so deep I physically could not pick the book up for a week. If Macy and Eden do not end up together I will lose my mind. And that is how terrible this book is that I am ready to risk it all for a couple of side characters that only have 10 pages of page time altogether.
On to my next big issue with this book, the one that I find the funniest: the authors inability to kill of any of the main characters and instead introducing some random side character(in the form of a love interest to another side character), trying really hard to make us care about them, and then killing them off at the end of the book so that Grace has something to be Sadtm about. We had Macy's boyfriend in the second book and now Finn's boyfriend in the third book. There was a moment at the end where Jaxon died and I remember writing in my notes that I would bet anything that he is not actually dead and that they would find some way to bring him back and SURE ENOUGH, two pages later he was breathing again. Notice how both of the queer characters have lost a love interest meanwhile Grace gets to keep both of her boyfriends?????????
I have nothing to say about the love triangle. It was boring idc
And that concludes everything I have to say about this book right now. If you made it to the end of this review congratulations. See you again next year when I read the fourth one because I love torturing myself.
SHE'S STILL WRITING THESE???????????????????????? I THOUGHT THAT THIS ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IT I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A TRILOGY BUT APPARRENTLY THERE'S SIX BOOKS???????????? And I know what your saying "Gracie, literally no one is forcing you to read these books you could stop at any time and just forget about them." YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT????????? YOU THINK I LIKE THE FACT THAT I CAN'T LOOK AWAY FROM THIS DUMPSTER FIRE????????????
I needed some time after reading this book to gather my thoughts because it literally fried my brain and sent me into an almost 2 month long reading slump. But I have finally had some distance and am ready to talk about why I think this might be one of, if not THE, worst books I have ever read in my life.
(I would like to make it clear that despite taking 211 notes over the course of reading this book I am not consulting any of them or referring back to the book at all while writing this and so everything I am saying here is based off memory alone so there might be some inaccuracies when it comes to me describing the plot but I do not care because I am not touching that book right now)
I will begin by discussing the heart of any book(perhaps the reason why this book has no heart), the protagonist, Grace. Grace is... how would I describe her? She is perhaps the most self centered character I have ever read. EVERYTHING(and I mean EVERYTHING) revolves around her. Something could happen to any one of the characters and she will immediately make it about the way SHE feels or how it effects HER. All of the side characters only exist to serve her and no one has any storyline that does not directly involve her which makes it really hard to care about any of the side characters because their personalities are so inextricably linked to Grace that it's like they don't really exist on their own. She also suffers from a common problem with YA protagonists which is the fact that she has only been a part of this world for like 2 months but she's already more powerful then everyone else and is now going to be the ruler of the gargoyles or whatever. Her joining the "circle" is the equivalent of Bella from Twilight joining the Volturri immediately after becoming a vampire like do you see how ridiculous that is???? She's a literally teenager whereas everyone else is like thousands of years old and it just feels so ridiculous that she's somehow on everyone else's level despite seemingly never having to struggle for anything. Also she's just really really really annoying.
I would like to take a minute to highlight just how much everything revolves around Grace while also talking about another giant issue I have with this book, which would be the way the author handles her queer characters. In order to do this I am going to use an example from the last book but that carries on into this book, which would be the character Finn. Finn has exactly 2 personality traits, 1: he is Grace's best friend, 2: he is gay. We could even combine those together and just say his one single personality trait is being Grace's Gay Best Friendtm. In the last book Finn came out to Macy as gay and the whole time I was rolling my eyes because it is so painfully obvious that a straight woman is writing this. They cry, hug it out, Grace tells him he has no reason to be ashamed of being gay, Finn tells her he's in love with Jaxon or whatever, blah blah blah, now the author has a token gay character, whoopee. Then literally two pages later Grace thinks about how she wishes that he had not come out to her because it made her feel guilty about the fact that she was dating Jaxon. BITCH??????????? You're telling me that Finn comes out to you, tells you that you are the first person he's ever felt comfortable enough to do that to(even though he's literally hundreds of years old lmao) and you're annoyed at him because it complicates things for you????? There was something so sinister and gross to me about this moment. This moment did get me thinking though about why it even had to exist in the first place. Why do so many straight authors feel the need to work in homophobia into their fantasies when it doesn't serve any narrative function other than to make the main character look good for being an ally? The other example I can think of is in the ACOTAR series by Sarah J Mass where a character comes out to Feyre in the infamous 6 page long monologue. That example is even worse to me because it takes place in a world completely made up. You're really telling me that you came up with a world where you could make anything happen and you chose to include homophobia? While it is true that in Tracy Wolff's series it takes place in a version of this modern world, these characters are thousands of years old, also they're dragons and witches and vampires. It just frustrates me because it's so painfully obvious that it was only included so Grace, the straight woman, could look good. The most irrelevant person in Finn coming out, was Finn himself.
Now I will take a break from the negativity and talk about the one sliver of redemption this book had, which was Macy(of course talking about her will lead to more negativity as I air out my grievances about the way her character is treated). Macy is a sweetheart, she is a little ray of sunshine in the blackhole that is this book, she is the only one with some semblance of a personality, she is the only thing that made me keep going, and I am almost 100% sure that she will be dead by the end of this series so that Grace can be Sadtm about it. Listen, I don't even think Macy is a GOOD character, she suffers from the same fate of every other side character which is that she's kind of only there is serve Grace but every other aspect of these books are so bad that the one character that is slightly better is suddenly the only thing that I care about. Unfortunately she took a hit this book because her boyfriend that she only knew for like a week died at the end of the last book and a lot of her personality this book was being sad about it. HOWEVER she did have something going on with Eden this book and by something I mean they would look at each other every once in a while and I don't care how delusional I am being those two are soulmates and have 1000% more chemistry in the 2 seconds they've had together than Grace has had with hudsen or jaxon in 3 whole books. In fact when it was hinted at that the author was going to pair macy up with another random man I flew into a fit of rage so deep I physically could not pick the book up for a week. If Macy and Eden do not end up together I will lose my mind. And that is how terrible this book is that I am ready to risk it all for a couple of side characters that only have 10 pages of page time altogether.
On to my next big issue with this book, the one that I find the funniest: the authors inability to kill of any of the main characters and instead introducing some random side character(in the form of a love interest to another side character), trying really hard to make us care about them, and then killing them off at the end of the book so that Grace has something to be Sadtm about. We had Macy's boyfriend in the second book and now Finn's boyfriend in the third book. There was a moment at the end where Jaxon died and I remember writing in my notes that I would bet anything that he is not actually dead and that they would find some way to bring him back and SURE ENOUGH, two pages later he was breathing again. Notice how both of the queer characters have lost a love interest meanwhile Grace gets to keep both of her boyfriends?????????
I have nothing to say about the love triangle. It was boring idc
And that concludes everything I have to say about this book right now. If you made it to the end of this review congratulations. See you again next year when I read the fourth one because I love torturing myself.