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On Wings of Blood

Briar Boleyn

3.85 AVERAGE

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

For those of you going into this book thinking it is going to be reminiscent of fourth wing or zodiac academy I can tell you that is completely false. Literally the only thing that the series have in common is that they’re at some sort of magical school. I feel almost offended that those books are being marked to being similar to this one. I was bored like most of this book until it got till the last 90% of it where stuff was actually happening. For the first portion of the book we spend getting to know this world through the fmcs eyes which honestly i didn’t necessarily love and felt like it was done the best that it should have been. I also feel like the character development lacked a lot like i did not give two shits if anything happened to these characters none. Also the mmc was as stale as white bread when we finally got his perspective i was excited i was finally ready for things to pick up but it didn’t. The whole book read poorly for me and I can see the appeal of the idea I just feel like the execution and dialogue could have been better. There was also no tension or chemistry between the main characters like when they finally got together i didn’t care and just wanted to finish this damn book. I don’t think i will be continuing the series I have no desire too and I felt like the ending didn’t even want me to either. This book definitely felt predictable but not in a fun way.

2⭐️ Meh, Won’t recommend.

Read this if you like vampires, dragons and fae in a dark and ruthless school where anything can happen.

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

I was a little hesitant to read this because it was compared to Zodiac Academy and I really didn’t like the bullying in that book. While this also has a bully of an MMC, it also had an FMC who stood up to him and the bullying wasn’t pointless like it was in Zodiac Academy. I also enjoyed the slow burn of the romance as the MMC fell first. I can’t wait to read the second one!

One of my biggest criticisms is that the MMCs name is Blake. Who names a character in a fantasy novel as Blake? Seemed weird to me.
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

 A hot mess of nothing.