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kb33's review
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Abandonment, and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
Minor: Bullying and Animal death
emfass's review
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual content
Moderate: Bullying, Violence, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
tostita's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Unrequited love and second chance romance are among my least favorite tropes so this book was working from a disadvantage from page 1. That’s why it’s impressive to me that it worked as well for me as it did. The angst was high in this one. In fact, it’s pretty much all angst all the time from beginning to end, but if angst is what you want then this is very well done. If I have any complaint it’s that I might want the hero to suffer even more, but I guess I’m just mean like that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy
Minor: Abandonment
now_booking's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Overall, I liked this childhood sweethearts story of Kiran, a hoard king, and Maeva, a healer. This is a great addition to the legend and overarching plot of this story, I’m only sad because the next book isn’t out yet. The premise is that as child, Maeva and Kiran were best friends but then when Maeva developed a massive crush on Kiran and made it publicly known, he didn’t seem to reciprocate, and what’s more she doesn’t take it very well, especially when his actions after make it seem he doesn’t care. But now allegedly over the past and living her life, Kiran is back for her.
The one thing I sort of had an issue with, is the central conflict kind of being around the main characters who at various moments wanted the other protagonist to love them a certain way and felt “a way” (and threw a bit of a tantrum) when they didn’t receive that love in that way at that time. The author tried to mitigate this issue by presenting it like the protagonists were actually upset about other issues but the main issue at hand was still that of not having their feelings reciprocated. I love this series and I’m excited about upcoming books and checking out this author’s other work because this has been a great reading experience so far.
The one thing I sort of had an issue with, is the central conflict kind of being around the main characters who at various moments wanted the other protagonist to love them a certain way and felt “a way” (and threw a bit of a tantrum) when they didn’t receive that love in that way at that time. The author tried to mitigate this issue by presenting it like the protagonists were actually upset about other issues but the main issue at hand was still that of not having their feelings reciprocated. I love this series and I’m excited about upcoming books and checking out this author’s other work because this has been a great reading experience so far.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Violence
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