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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
adventurous
medium-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
I found the world building completely lacking. Really hard to actually know where they were or wtf was going on.
Also I could really do without the jealous “I hate other women” trope and the “this guy is such a jerk to me, but I still fall in love with him” Can’t we find a new cliche?
The best part of the book was Onyx, and he just disappeared at some point. Hope he’s ok.
Also I could really do without the jealous “I hate other women” trope and the “this guy is such a jerk to me, but I still fall in love with him” Can’t we find a new cliche?
The best part of the book was Onyx, and he just disappeared at some point. Hope he’s ok.
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i LOVE THIS BOOK i need the next one immediately. fisher reminds me of rhysand…is it possible i like fisher better? i love saeris as the fmc, i was on her side the whole time and she never once annoyed me as some other fmc’s do in books similar to this one. i thought the presence of alchemy was super interesting and i hope there’s more history of past alchemists in the next one. days after finishing this book and i’m still thinking about it nonstop. fisher is one of the best mmc imo and if he was real i would need him to be mine. i hope in the next book there will be more background on the wolves and how that little group was formed. it was a major plot twist to me that carrion was always fae but even more surprising to me was the fact that saeris is half fae, though it also makes sense bc how else would she be able to have magical powers. when fisher first returned with carrion i thought that he and saeris were long lost siblings or something crazy like that and i was horrified. upon finding out that they in fact are not related, things were less crazy to me. but speaking of siblings, hayden sucks. for someone that’s 20 years old, he is so beyond immature. he clearly is the one that causes all of saeris’s problems. i honestly would be totally fine if we never hear from hayden and/or elroy in the next books. hayden would definitely ruin things for everyone and i feel like he would make the war significantly worse.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
It took a while to get into but then was a super entertaining romp. Can't wait for the next one!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm not an experienced fantasy reader, but I could tell that there were something which irked me very much. The whole book wasn't that bad, but it is definitely overhyped.
1. I did not like how Saeris and Fisher's relationship develops in the first 200 Pages? Did a bridie tell me that Fisher is a brood, cold asshole shadow daddy? Well scrap everything besides him being an ass for no reason towards Saeris until its later revealed that he wanted to hater her. Boy, wasn't just mean, no he was an utter asshole. As much as I love Saeris as a bad ass FMC, she just made the first 200 even worse by bitching back and arguing for the sake of being badass and annoying. Most of the time I just wanted to punch Kingfisher, yes even when he got nicer in the second part.
2. Why the fuck did the Author waste 300 pages just to built up their relationship only to speed run it in a few chapters when Fisher stops being an asshat? I felt Zero chemistry between the two in the first half and suddenly we are speed running slow burn, when there wasn't anything burning in the first place.
3. My last big nitpick. I fucking hat it when world building isn't building and everything which makes no sense or is too hard to explain is just shrugged off with the excuse. "Well, that's magic for you." I wish the Author spend more time on the world building in the first half instead of the dragged out back and forthbanterarguing between our main couple. I did grasp the political situation but how this world works and what makes it so much different from our modern world? IDK I was utterly flabbergasted that they had Whiskey there and the characters were cursing like sailors in the modern world. It made it hard to immerse myself.
As much as I hated the first half or rather the first 2/3 of the book. After Fisher stops being an ass and them sleeping with each other for real. Things gets so much better. The end is quite rushed and ends with a semi cliffhanger. I wish they did experiment more or focus more on the Quicksilver, as it was an interesting concept.
1. I did not like how Saeris and Fisher's relationship develops in the first 200 Pages? Did a bridie tell me that Fisher is a brood, cold asshole shadow daddy? Well scrap everything besides him being an ass for no reason towards Saeris until its later revealed that he wanted to hater her. Boy, wasn't just mean, no he was an utter asshole. As much as I love Saeris as a bad ass FMC, she just made the first 200 even worse by bitching back and arguing for the sake of being badass and annoying. Most of the time I just wanted to punch Kingfisher, yes even when he got nicer in the second part.
2. Why the fuck did the Author waste 300 pages just to built up their relationship only to speed run it in a few chapters when Fisher stops being an asshat? I felt Zero chemistry between the two in the first half and suddenly we are speed running slow burn, when there wasn't anything burning in the first place.
3. My last big nitpick. I fucking hat it when world building isn't building and everything which makes no sense or is too hard to explain is just shrugged off with the excuse. "Well, that's magic for you." I wish the Author spend more time on the world building in the first half instead of the dragged out back and forth
As much as I hated the first half or rather the first 2/3 of the book. After Fisher stops being an ass and them sleeping with each other for real. Things gets so much better. The end is quite rushed and ends with a semi cliffhanger. I wish they did experiment more or focus more on the Quicksilver, as it was an interesting concept.
adventurous
emotional
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:
Yes
I went into this predisposed to not enjoy it, as every booktok pick I’ve read thus far has been a let down for me. Therefore, I was quite pleasantly surprised. The writing, characters, and plot were all average, not awful. The whole concept of the quicksilver was genuinely quite intriguing, and some of the side characters really held their own, like Carrion and Onyx (until he disappeared 😭).
I hated the possessiveness of the men, the ‘I’m not like other girls, I’m an independent badass who doesn’t wear dresses’ energy of the MC, the secretiveness of the fated mates, and the girl on girl rivalry. So ready for those tropes to die. The fae also being vampires felt shoehorned in, and the names were a lot. How am I meant to take a man named for a bird and another named for rotting meat seriously?
Mostly, though, this book was just messy. I had so many unanswered questions, only some of which got answered in the info dump that was the last few chapters.How did the king just let a powerful prisoner and the only alchemist known for hundreds of years disappear with absolutely zero follow-up? If Kingfisher has no lands, where are all these houses and servants coming from? How did Everlane end up with the vampires? How did Malcolm die when they were meant to be a triumvirate who dies together? And, most importantly, how did a 5-foot-something human come away from sex with a 7-foot fae with her intestines intact??
I hated the possessiveness of the men, the ‘I’m not like other girls, I’m an independent badass who doesn’t wear dresses’ energy of the MC, the secretiveness of the fated mates, and the girl on girl rivalry. So ready for those tropes to die. The fae also being vampires felt shoehorned in, and the names were a lot. How am I meant to take a man named for a bird and another named for rotting meat seriously?
Mostly, though, this book was just messy. I had so many unanswered questions, only some of which got answered in the info dump that was the last few chapters.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A