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thatmoxiemermaid's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
alesavoury's review
2.0
I’ve many issues with this book. I loved the first two, I will defend the first two until my dying breath. HOWEVER, the third book and the fourth book feel like a whole entire different series. A whole lot of nothing happens in this book.
Spoilers:
1. I absolutely cannot handle when the two main characters are separated for a major portion of the book. It drives me insane, if you’re going to have the love story be the main focus of the first two books, you cannot separate them. She did try to address this by having them able to dream walk, which was neat… but clearly used to give the readers some spicy scenes.
2. Cas doesn’t get found until 60% of the book is finished… whaat!! The first 60 was incredibly, and I mean incredibly redundant.
3. Now listen… the Kieran and Poppy situation. You’re telling me that Cas is okay with how Kieran looks at, touches and speaks to Poppy, when they’re mated. The whole friendship becomes borderline inappropriate and some important boundaries need to be set.
4. Cas’ reaction to Malik. Wouldn’t he have all people know how being captured you have to act to save yourself. Cas’ disgust with Malik was uncalled for and does not align with his character.
5. Poppy = the queen of asking questions that do not be asked. Like girl, are you going to ask why the sky is blue next??
6. My overall complaint is all the characters are literally the same… witty, sarcastic, incapable of being serious and always rolling their eyes.
Spoilers:
1. I absolutely cannot handle when the two main characters are separated for a major portion of the book. It drives me insane, if you’re going to have the love story be the main focus of the first two books, you cannot separate them. She did try to address this by having them able to dream walk, which was neat… but clearly used to give the readers some spicy scenes.
2. Cas doesn’t get found until 60% of the book is finished… whaat!! The first 60 was incredibly, and I mean incredibly redundant.
3. Now listen… the Kieran and Poppy situation. You’re telling me that Cas is okay with how Kieran looks at, touches and speaks to Poppy, when they’re mated. The whole friendship becomes borderline inappropriate and some important boundaries need to be set.
4. Cas’ reaction to Malik. Wouldn’t he have all people know how being captured you have to act to save yourself. Cas’ disgust with Malik was uncalled for and does not align with his character.
5. Poppy = the queen of asking questions that do not be asked. Like girl, are you going to ask why the sky is blue next??
6. My overall complaint is all the characters are literally the same… witty, sarcastic, incapable of being serious and always rolling their eyes.
chloetaida's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
erinbeee's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
A few months ago I read a review that said something like "the real villain in this story is Poppy's internal monologue" and I think about this every single time I'm reading another book in this series. I made it through 4 books, mostly on the strength of Kieran's snappy charm, my love of shapeshifters and found family, and my blind hope that I would start to love our MMC and FMC characters at some point. I do not.
mlaura's review
2.0
The most fantastical thing about this fantasy novel is the size of Poppy's stupidity.
What's the point of making a super-powerful character if they're gonna be super-dumb?
I have to give you this: the story in this book had a big improvement in comparison to the last two. Although I have great character-related complaints, the story was good, with not nearly as much unnecessary content as the last one.
Unfortunately, the characters seemed to "under-develop" and lose most of their personality traits to just some sort of weird adoration of Poppy - which COULD be justified, since she's a goddess, if she was able to actually do anything other than whine about missing Cas and being the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Poppy has the worst fucking timing I have ever seen, she never gets angry at the right time or for the right thing. And, as Reaver is right to point out all the time (a good character, if a little cliche), she is straight out DUMB. She doesn't seem to catch on to any of the logical and clear things that people tell her - and not only Poppy, but also the hundreds of years old characters that accompany her. She's the queen of making bad decisions, which would be understandable for her age, but the author made her be way too special to grant her the 'age excuse'. If one thing made sense was her constantly being beaten by her hundreds yo mother, from which she didn't seem to get the genes for a brain.
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON CASTEEL. This man was once a smart, violent, seductive and reckless bad boy, and now his only personality trait is being Poppy's heartmate. Always. And forever. Seriously, this was driving me insane. Please author, never again narrate things from his POV because his "devotion" was too much for me to take in. I can only hope she won't do the same to Kieran.
I'm not even gonna get into the forced feminism subject - all this thing with Casteel's puppy-like personality, Poppy's refusal to wear "feminine-like" clothes and brush her hair (and her mother's vanity as a bad trait), and all the other little things that the author tries to make out as feminism but that actually come off as an anti-feminine behavior.
The only thing giving me the strength to continue now is the possibility of a trouple and the hope for a smarter Poppy that uses her full power.
What's the point of making a super-powerful character if they're gonna be super-dumb?
I have to give you this: the story in this book had a big improvement in comparison to the last two. Although I have great character-related complaints, the story was good, with not nearly as much unnecessary content as the last one.
Unfortunately, the characters seemed to "under-develop" and lose most of their personality traits to just some sort of weird adoration of Poppy - which COULD be justified, since she's a goddess, if she was able to actually do anything other than whine about missing Cas and being the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Poppy has the worst fucking timing I have ever seen, she never gets angry at the right time or for the right thing. And, as Reaver is right to point out all the time (a good character, if a little cliche), she is straight out DUMB. She doesn't seem to catch on to any of the logical and clear things that people tell her - and not only Poppy, but also the hundreds of years old characters that accompany her. She's the queen of making bad decisions, which would be understandable for her age, but the author made her be way too special to grant her the 'age excuse'. If one thing made sense was her constantly being beaten by her hundreds yo mother, from which she didn't seem to get the genes for a brain.
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON CASTEEL. This man was once a smart, violent, seductive and reckless bad boy, and now his only personality trait is being Poppy's heartmate. Always. And forever. Seriously, this was driving me insane. Please author, never again narrate things from his POV because his "devotion" was too much for me to take in. I can only hope she won't do the same to Kieran.
I'm not even gonna get into the forced feminism subject - all this thing with Casteel's puppy-like personality, Poppy's refusal to wear "feminine-like" clothes and brush her hair (and her mother's vanity as a bad trait), and all the other little things that the author tries to make out as feminism but that actually come off as an anti-feminine behavior.
The only thing giving me the strength to continue now is the possibility of a trouple and the hope for a smarter Poppy that uses her full power.
theworldofnuy's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
shopabs44's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
4.0
remanentsum's review
adventurous
emotional
sad
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
3.75
sarahjm6's review
1.0
DNF at around 80%. No plot, no character development. Unnecessarily long for the little that was actually happen. And don’t even get me started on how unnecessary nearly all of the sex scenes are. Will not be continuing this series.