Reviews

The Elf Tangent by Lindsay Buroker

wave__nami's review against another edition

4.0

This book was a blast to read. Sometimes it actually made me laugh. Even though there are so many sexual innuendos throughout this book… we are left with only a few measly kissing scenes.

sewster314's review against another edition

4.0

This book was really fun! I enjoyed the main character and the humor shared between characters. Some really great lines.

I only wish less time had been spent in the “we’re all going to die” tension at the end and more time spent on the two love interests actually getting together. They aren’t even officially in a relationship at the end!

katkaity's review against another edition

4.0

Good story building and good character development.
Could be a bit longer; took less than a few hours to read.
Will be re-reading as it was cute as heck.

abashton's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

sandyfleener's review against another edition

5.0

I love her other books so I was pretty sure of this one. I was right, I loved it.

bookish_caprice's review

5.0

Lovely story

The story is a journey/ quest to help the elves. Although it starts unconventionally with kidnapping. It’s interesting, full of action and there is slowly brewing romance on the background.
I love enemies to lovers stories where MMC is never cruel or bad to FMC.

noll's review

5.0

The Elf Tangent was absolutely delightful and as soon as I finished listening to it from the library, I immediately purchased the audiobook from Chirp, and restarted it cause I was just that in love with the world, and the writing, and the characters. However, since I listened to it, I have no idea how to spell a lot of names, so please excuse any errors in that department.

The banter throughout the book is pure gold. The characters are all extremely well written, and their personalities mesh well together. It was so nice to see Aldari and Thelli having an actual friendship outside of their professional relationship, and even the few moments where Hawk and Setvick weren't arguing were filled with such unexpectedly genuine humor that I just wanted them to make peace and be at least indifferent to each other if not friends.

Spoiler

So the part at the end when Hawk admits he was wrong to call him a coward and Setvick says "Yes you were. I will follow you anyway." was INCREDBILY satisfying

I will say, most of the plot twists were very predictable, but -again- the writing was so good and the story was so engaging and the characters and their snarky quips were so fun, that it didn't matter. Lindsay Buroker could write about these characters playing Uno and I would pay to read it.

Spoiler

Was I expecting the twisted to basically be elf zombies? No. But I'm glad because if I had, I probably wouldn't have read it cause I don't really like zombies. That being said, the twisted were properly terrifying in an 'oh snap' kind of way and the scene with the hoard gave me a healthy little adrenaline rush both times I listened to it. Not gonna have nightmares or anything but she did a good job of bringing a very lowkey element of horror into it.

Other little thoughts about the book that are far less organized:
Oh my gosh Hawk and Aldari are so good together, the romance was amazing and I'm gonna cry over it.
The number of times Aldari improvised weapons or threw rocks at things was great. Queen.
The number of times Aldari stabbed something or someone was also great. Queen.
Bard Thelli. That's it. That's the thought.
Setvick is an ass but he's a slightly more likeable ass the second time through.
Lindsay Buroker writes hugs so well??? Like yeah the kissing was great but the hugging????? Gold.

emms_across_formats's review

3.0

The pacing was weird. The first half is slowish, then the second half feels really rushed. Might have been better as a duology instead of just one book. It was alright.

averagebookgerblin's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

ez_bakes's review against another edition

4.0

Had a lot of potential but fell short in a few places for me. The pacing was a little slow, the puzzles were not clever enough, and it was a little TOO closed door in the romance department. I’m also not a huge fan of a “happy for now” with no epilogue. Wanted a lot more out of that ending.

Ultimately a solid read but probably wouldn’t pick it up again.