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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Absolutely loved this!! Hooked from start to finish - just ordered the second one as I need to know what happens next!!
Love both of the main characters plus the side characters! When people say it’s a mix of fourth wing, Harry Potter and ZA they aren’t wrong!
Obsessed!
Love both of the main characters plus the side characters! When people say it’s a mix of fourth wing, Harry Potter and ZA they aren’t wrong!
Obsessed!
Wow wow WOW - this book grabs you from page one and I absolutely devoured it. Set in a dark academia world ruled by vampires and haunted by secrets, Medra finds herself (literally) in a brutal, high-stakes world full of deceit, violence, forbidden magic, hidden agendas, and enemies you'll love to hate. Blake & Medra are everything you want in an enemies to lovers dynamic - raw, reluctant, vicious, and fighting between hate and passion. Why is a slow burning, hate-filled, uncontrolled kiss so freaking hot?!
If you are slumping after Shield of Sparrows or Beg The Night, this is the perfect next read. Full of villains, intrigue, and a cliffhanger that will have you diving into book 2.
Tropes:
Fantasy
Dark Academia
Enemies to lovers
Vampires & Dragons
Touch her and die
Cliffhanger
Spice 2/5
If you are slumping after Shield of Sparrows or Beg The Night, this is the perfect next read. Full of villains, intrigue, and a cliffhanger that will have you diving into book 2.
Tropes:
Fantasy
Dark Academia
Enemies to lovers
Vampires & Dragons
Touch her and die
Cliffhanger
Spice 2/5
This was a fun ride! Although FUCK Blake! I get he's supposed to be like the good guy underneath the bad boy exterior type thing but he just gave me the ICK. I wish Kage was in the book more and I wish Theo had a bit of a bigger part but I really enjoyed the FMC's development so far. I don't think I'm going to continue the series because not all the books out and I hate that but I am looking forward to the next book nonetheless.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
slow-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
Enjoyable little bit boring but gotta have another taste of this shit
**updated review**
i've heard from a few people that this author was unaware of the use of AI in her cover art. The series was pulled because it was picked up by trad publishing and will likely have a cover without ai when it comes out, so i've adjusted my star rating to reflect that. i just want to say thank you to the author for clarifying this and for standing with artists.
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This book had to have been part of a paid influencer marketing program because i saw TONS of tiktok's talking about it and talking it up for being incredible and unique and new, and not a single review or video mentioned the vast number of similarities it has to the Harry Potter series. i understand enjoying a franchise and wanting to write something inspired by it because of that love, but it just felt a little strange that not a single one of the videos i saw even mentioned it, so im mentioning it, that's all.
if you want to read a story where draco malfoy is the MMC, this could be for you.
Despite the initial shock of the HP similarities, i did actually enjoy this book. It was a fun read!
I found the world building entertaining, interesting, and easy to understand. i loved the FMC and honestly wish i saw more of her fun, confident humor throughout the book. In the opening scene she's quite sassy and i wanted more of that really.
the MMC Blake is a little tragic- he's a bad guy i actually felt for because he's unlearning a lot of extremely toxic cultural standards.
I loved her friends and the side characters, however at times it felt like things were squeezed in as a plot device- something happens to one of her friends near the end and i re-read the chapter trying to understand what the hell was going on because i genuinely couldn't believe what was happening all of a sudden. I thought the whole scene was some kind of hallucination of the FMC.
Spoiler for the animal abuse TW:
there is a young vampire child who is basically 'feral' and cruel. off camera she captures a puppy-like creature, drinks its blood and needlessly slashes it, leaving it bleeding out on the beach for the FMC to find. the creature ultimately lives only to be kicked by another vampire later on- which he also recovers from.
this felt like shallow shock value to me. kicking a puppy was so cliche i rolled my eyes and i personally feel that there are better ways to show that someone is cruel than suddenly having a bleeding, mutilated puppy. The scene where this same feral girl kidnaps a child was MUCH more compelling and actually gave me the creepy, messed up, 'she's not right in the head' vibes.
[end spoilers]
overall this book was pretty entertaining. you can't liken it to works of classical literature- it would be doing a disservice to what it is, which is a fun romp in a magical fantasy world filled with tension and yearning.
i've heard from a few people that this author was unaware of the use of AI in her cover art. The series was pulled because it was picked up by trad publishing and will likely have a cover without ai when it comes out, so i've adjusted my star rating to reflect that. i just want to say thank you to the author for clarifying this and for standing with artists.
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This book had to have been part of a paid influencer marketing program because i saw TONS of tiktok's talking about it and talking it up for being incredible and unique and new, and not a single review or video mentioned the vast number of similarities it has to the Harry Potter series. i understand enjoying a franchise and wanting to write something inspired by it because of that love, but it just felt a little strange that not a single one of the videos i saw even mentioned it, so im mentioning it, that's all.
if you want to read a story where draco malfoy is the MMC, this could be for you.
Despite the initial shock of the HP similarities, i did actually enjoy this book. It was a fun read!
I found the world building entertaining, interesting, and easy to understand. i loved the FMC and honestly wish i saw more of her fun, confident humor throughout the book. In the opening scene she's quite sassy and i wanted more of that really.
the MMC Blake is a little tragic- he's a bad guy i actually felt for because he's unlearning a lot of extremely toxic cultural standards.
I loved her friends and the side characters, however at times it felt like things were squeezed in as a plot device- something happens to one of her friends near the end and i re-read the chapter trying to understand what the hell was going on because i genuinely couldn't believe what was happening all of a sudden. I thought the whole scene was some kind of hallucination of the FMC.
Spoiler for the animal abuse TW:
there is a young vampire child who is basically 'feral' and cruel. off camera she captures a puppy-like creature, drinks its blood and needlessly slashes it, leaving it bleeding out on the beach for the FMC to find. the creature ultimately lives only to be kicked by another vampire later on- which he also recovers from.
this felt like shallow shock value to me. kicking a puppy was so cliche i rolled my eyes and i personally feel that there are better ways to show that someone is cruel than suddenly having a bleeding, mutilated puppy. The scene where this same feral girl kidnaps a child was MUCH more compelling and actually gave me the creepy, messed up, 'she's not right in the head' vibes.
[end spoilers]
overall this book was pretty entertaining. you can't liken it to works of classical literature- it would be doing a disservice to what it is, which is a fun romp in a magical fantasy world filled with tension and yearning.