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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Loved it.

I barely remembered anything from the first book but I enjoyed this one! This was more looking into the backstory of everything and I love a backstory. 

Raihn & oraya aka "I'm on my guard for the rest of the world but with you, I know it's no good"

They are also SO "I love you." "I know."

Raihn born to be a wife guy, forced to be the rishan king

Kinda weird to make their wings an erogenous zone but okay

Oraya: I fear only one person has ever truly understood me and I fucking hate the guy 

They're taking the phrase "suckin and fuckin" to a whole new level with all this blood drinking

Love how they turned the remains of Vincent's sword into blades for oraya. She's not trying to wield his power anymore, she's making it her own. And that power is coming from her human side 

I'd like to point out that everyone has very fantasy-sounding names and then there's fucking Simon 

It's cool how in the flashbacks there are a lot of parallels, you may think it's one person's pov or that they're talking about a specific event but then it turns out to be something else

Vincent & Alana are so silver springs "you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you"

Unfortunately Raihn has written-by-a-woman disease in that no man is this perfect (has basic human decency)
adventurous dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional 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

Serè algo ambigua por ser el segundo libro.

Empieza con muy buen ritmo aunque a veces sentìa que decaì un poquito pero de inmediato volvìa agarrar el ritmo.

Los personajes si tuvieron un desarrollo y crecimiento, algunos los sentìa de adorno que no aportan a la trama lo cual lamento ya que se podìan aprovechar màs.

Algo que disfrute fue leer todos los secretos que se iban relevando y me dejaron en shock.
Toda la trama estuvo genial me mantuvo en tensiòn todo el tiempo aunque el final me dejó satisfecha pero no fue mi favorito se resolvìo rápido y conveniente para los personajes.

Algo que si me queda claro es que yo voy a leer todo lo que escriba Carissa Broadbent su forma de escribir me dejo encantada, si ella me pasa su lista del super me la leo fascinada.







humbuggery's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 81%

i think i need to bite the bullet on this one.

i stopped reading it after it was revealed that
the bracelet was the key to the god-map thing
.  i just got major ick...like the answer felt so unearned, total mcguffin vibes. and i get it, i really do -- the bracelet is meaningful more in a character growth sense and symbolic of oraya's personal journey grappling with her past. i'm not blind to that; i mean, oraya outright tells us so immediately after! i just wish that this story would stop pretending to be an epic fantasy with serious plot. there are many books that can balance both great character explorations and great plot (often enriching each other!), but this does not seem to be one of them. i was hoping to take a break and come back to it at some point, if only to say i did it... but it's been like a month and a half atp. i keep procrastinating picking it back up. and who knows, maybe i will one day! but i think putting this on the DNF shelf will let me breathe easier.

on a side note: idk whether the worldbuilding (which DID finally occur, thank goodness) can be counted as plagiarism of SJM? or is ACOTAR just like romantasy's LOTR now?? will sensitive bat wings, huge age gap romances and this weirdly specific inheritance system for the throne just become the romantasy norm, like how elves and dwarves are the fantasy norm? 
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes