Reviews - The Bond That Burns

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The Bond That Burns

Briar Boleyn

4.06 AVERAGE

sadhunni's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: No

ktetzloff's review against another edition

3.75

medium-paced

mherkelman's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

I found this book much harder to get into but the last 15% was pretty good. A lot of things going on 🤣

jazzyjay1258's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I found this series by chance and I finished book 1 and 2 over a couple of days and I honestly can not wait for the 3rd book to come out.

jomo_250's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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: Yes

Better than the first but not by much. The exciting, fast paced, aspects starts in the last 100-odd pages with a cliffhanger that does hurt your heart. The writing seems all over the place - no real continuance of story lines (still little history on Medra which everyone seems to accept. Blake’s “sister” - who cares? Takana is a wolf - wtf?).

However the rest of the book is bareable, just.
Medra’s rage towards Blake is understandable but predictable. Her feelings for him seem to chop and change like the weather. I enjoyed her developing friendship with Theo and Visha. I like her friendship with Florence too but don’t like how she treats her like a naive child sometimes.

Blake - definitely still giving Draco Malloy vibes. Seemed to do a 180 on his behaviour after finally realising he was treating Medra like crap but don’t worry Blake, she seemed to forgive you real easily 😒.

Everything seemed a little disjointed and easy - finding the diary will ALL the real dragon history written down by the one man who didn’t want any one to know, was silly. Blake barely had to work for that at all 🤦🏽‍♀️.

Still too much of a mixture between Vampire Diaries & Fourth Wing for it to really stand on its own two feet as a series.

However, Neville will always be supreme !!

amcateer's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

roriesreads's review against another edition

4.0

I vibed with this book, don’t get me wrong but there is something about the interpersonal relationship between our two main characters that just doesn’t 100% work for me. This is an enemies to lovers, academic fantasy book and we get a lot of the fantasy and academic but the graduation from enemies to lovers seems to be not really there for me. I’m almost confused as to how they got to the lovers part but that’s just me, again, personal preference. I will be reading the next book in this series because I do feel like we are finally gearing up for some intense action and I’m definitely excited