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Given to the Wolf King: Faeted to the Clawed Throne I by Adalynd Grayves

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geniesurreal's review

3.0

The writing is phenomenal however the story and characters are dull and one-dimensional.

The "danger" seems to take place in the background, not really affecting anyone throughout most of the story. We hear of this evil ravaging the land but Aofie is forced to stay inside so we don't really see how their land and kingdom is devastated. We basically have to take the author's word for for how bad it is.

The villain is exactly who you think it is because they're slimy and suspicious from the very beginning. I met this character and heard them say two lines of dialogue and thought "yep, this is the guy". The book didn't do much to keep that a secret yet tried to treat it as a plot twist near the end. It was underwhelming.

While we're talking about not-so-secret secrets,

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Calling King Cullen the Wolf King and trying to hide the fact they're werewolves until the ending battle... I literally read this because I knew there were would be shifters in it. I was actually excited to read how a faery and a shifter would mix in a romance, but the fact they're werewolves was supposed to be a secret?! I'm flabbergasted. I knew they were shifters before I began reading - how was this supposed to be a secret plot twist?! Especially when there are wolves depicted all over the freaking castle?!

I was also not crazy about the back and forth between character names and their nicknames. When I read "Efie" I thought it was a different character altogether, not Aofie's nickname. And when we first meet the humans, I seriously thought King Cullen and the Wolf King were two different people for a few pages until I finally figured it out. Maybe I'm slow but the shift between names was very confusing.

It was also full of typos, some actually pretty funny. The writing is very well done so I'm surprised to see so many typos.

However - the daemon is very interesting and mysterious. Well done with this character! We meet glimpses of this daemon in the beginning and end and personally, I thought the execution was brilliant. Kept the daemon mysterious and menacing. It could honestly be enough to get me to read the second book when it comes out.

mack908's review

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Just couldn’t get into it

hollyisodd's review

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fast-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? It's complicated

1.0

erinreadstoomuch's review

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

This was a freebie on the 2023 stuff your kindle day. I really liked the alternative Celtic approach on a wolf king and the fae, but a lot of the story points were lacking and I wasn’t getting the build up to the excitement. I think maybe if there was another 100 pages of story building it would have hit harder.

meganalburger's review

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I really wanted to like this book, but there was a lot missing and I just gave up towards the end. There were typos and context of the world missing. Sentences and conversations didn't always make sense. I also didn't like that there was no romance or romantic feeling for all of the book that I read before dnfing it.