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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
This was a very quick DNF for me. I wasn’t vibing with the writing style and I don’t think the interactions between characters were believable; the dialogue felt clunky and awkward.
adventurous
mysterious
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
So... this was underwhelming. From the number of people and the good grade I thought the book would be better. Unfortunately I didnt like Marco, the main hero.
So he is the alpha (although i felt zero alphaness from him but whatevs) and a dragon, powerful, rich and supposedly super protective, blahblahblah.
Well I call BS.
This man knows his mate is being beat (the f out) by her parents. And instead of saying "we are immediately stopping this" we are going to the cops or to the next fucking dimension or whatever. He leaves her again and again.
He keeps saying "I will protect you nothing will touch you".
Guess what ? She dies.
AND DOES HE LEARN ANYTHING????
DOES HE??
NOOOOOO
This "man" decides that on the same day his mate dies he will take her to LA to show her off.
So. Lets resume. She has been tortured and kept without any information HER ENTIRE LIFE. In a week she goes from seeing the world for the first time while being beat up to having mates, not being human and DYING.
AND THIS ASS thinks to himself "oh yeah I am so protective that the same day she dies, I will bring her to LA to be harrassed by paparazzi and an entire world she has bever seen, plus the dragon council. ".
All because this mf wants to show her off.
I mean... sorry for the rant but whats to love here?
So he is the alpha (although i felt zero alphaness from him but whatevs) and a dragon, powerful, rich and supposedly super protective, blahblahblah.
Well I call BS.
This man knows his mate is being beat (the f out) by her parents. And instead of saying "we are immediately stopping this" we are going to the cops or to the next fucking dimension or whatever. He leaves her again and again.
He keeps saying "I will protect you nothing will touch you".
Guess what ? She dies.
AND DOES HE LEARN ANYTHING????
DOES HE??
NOOOOOO
This "man" decides that on the same day his mate dies he will take her to LA to show her off.
So. Lets resume. She has been tortured and kept without any information HER ENTIRE LIFE. In a week she goes from seeing the world for the first time while being beat up to having mates, not being human and DYING.
AND THIS ASS thinks to himself "oh yeah I am so protective that the same day she dies, I will bring her to LA to be harrassed by paparazzi and an entire world she has bever seen, plus the dragon council. ".
All because this mf wants to show her off.
I mean... sorry for the rant but whats to love here?
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
Reborn in Flames is the first book in the Reborn series. After devouring the prologue, I was very intrigued to see Maya and her potential mates. Mostly because she seemed like a very shy and overprotected girl who needed help. So when the guys said that I just wanted to know who they were and when I was going to meet them.
Anyways, Maya just wasn't my cup of tea. She just seemed really naïve for most of this book and that rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not really hoping that things will get better with her in the next one but there's always room for growth. Maybe.
Other than that, I'm guess I'm down to dive into the next book just to see what is going to happen. Maybe things will get better or I will like Maya a bit more.
Anyways, Maya just wasn't my cup of tea. She just seemed really naïve for most of this book and that rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not really hoping that things will get better with her in the next one but there's always room for growth. Maybe.
Other than that, I'm guess I'm down to dive into the next book just to see what is going to happen. Maybe things will get better or I will like Maya a bit more.
First off, let me start by saying I don't know why this series gets so much hate. I personally loved it! Who cares if you think it's similar to other series/books. M. Sinclair has done it again; she simply doesn't write bad books, in my opinion. Maya has been severely sheltered until she finds out that:
A: She's not evil nor does she have the devil in her.
B: She's a shifter
C: She has 6 dragon shifter mates
Maya's character is like a breath of fresh air, and I love that she doesn't have a filter! I loved all of her mates, but my favorite had to be Henry! Read to find out just why!
A: She's not evil nor does she have the devil in her.
B: She's a shifter
C: She has 6 dragon shifter mates
Maya's character is like a breath of fresh air, and I love that she doesn't have a filter! I loved all of her mates, but my favorite had to be Henry! Read to find out just why!
This is a decent RH read, but it does read very Ghostbird with dragons instead of a shadow organization using abused kids as vigilantes and sterling them so they dont get knocked up and ruin the organization's plans (ok I slipped a little into Scarab Beetle there, but there is just something disturbing about that group).
The author takes on a difficult character type, a main character that has been locked away for 18 years, and does an ok job with it, but not great. Fated mates means things move pretty fast despite some pretty horrible abuse. There is a background world we know nothing about, which is odd because we get snippets of it when the guys are telling their story, but the FMC is in the dark so it is excusable.
The FMC accepts everything, immediately, including when her entire world view changes. She has zero hesitation. That was really kind of annoying. Her self loathing and protecting the guys from her doesnt really make sense compared to her bubbly personality. It also doesn't make any sense that the guys would have let her go back to a house they knew she was being beaten in.
There were also like three points of climax in this book that as I read them I was like ok and the story is over, bit there was more and not in a good way. I think this story could have been a lot stronger if book 1 had built up to the guys discovering she was being abused as they got to know her and then ended. Book 2 was the scene at the house and then where that lead and had her getting to know the guys better and the obligatory shopping trip. Book 3 was recovering from book 2 and learning more about the guys and this new world and ended with the cliffhanger of that person's arrival which was explained in the opening of book 4. So yes this bookq
There are some inconsistencies, like the bubbly personality despite the years of torture, the picture in the basement, that she was educated at all (there would be zero reason to teach her to read or give her books or anything it only created a possibility that she could survive on her own). She is supposed to not be fed like at all and described at first as skin and bones but then has all these curves. Also, 5'4" is not that small.
There are a lot of inconsistencies with the fact she has been locked away but her mom gave her the birds and bees talk even though she was never exposed to any other people and she has learned a LOT from Cosmo in less than a week. And let's be honest, if all of her real world learning had come from Cosmo like is was written that it did she would know all about back door horror stories 96 ways to lick your man's banana to drive him wild, this season's must have color, embarrassing tampon stories, and probably an in depth interview with Henry Cavill holding puppies as he talks about what it was like making the Witcher, and what he looks for in a girl! (I actually wouldn't be opposed to a picture of Henry Cavill holding puppies. Henry Cavill please don't take offense at my Cosmo dig and forgo any puppy pictures).
Oh, and the author seems to have this odd obsession with putting the FMC in bows as a sexy thing. It just made me think little girl and had me cringing.
I enjoyed it though and will pick up book 2 tp see where the story goes.
Oh, and totally unrelated the Witcher is really good, I had just finished it when I started this, and everyone is still talking about it, which is how Henry Cavill got roped into a random book review.
In conclusion, watch the Witcher, Henry Cavill should take pictures with puppies, Cosmo is not a good way to get a sense of what the world is like outside of a basement, bows are a no, and read this book.
The author takes on a difficult character type, a main character that has been locked away for 18 years, and does an ok job with it, but not great. Fated mates means things move pretty fast despite some pretty horrible abuse. There is a background world we know nothing about, which is odd because we get snippets of it when the guys are telling their story, but the FMC is in the dark so it is excusable.
The FMC accepts everything, immediately, including when her entire world view changes. She has zero hesitation. That was really kind of annoying. Her self loathing and protecting the guys from her doesnt really make sense compared to her bubbly personality. It also doesn't make any sense that the guys would have let her go back to a house they knew she was being beaten in.
There were also like three points of climax in this book that as I read them I was like ok and the story is over, bit there was more and not in a good way. I think this story could have been a lot stronger if book 1 had built up to the guys discovering she was being abused as they got to know her and then ended. Book 2 was the scene at the house and then where that lead and had her getting to know the guys better and the obligatory shopping trip. Book 3 was recovering from book 2 and learning more about the guys and this new world and ended with the cliffhanger of that person's arrival which was explained in the opening of book 4. So yes this bookq
There are some inconsistencies, like the bubbly personality despite the years of torture, the picture in the basement, that she was educated at all (there would be zero reason to teach her to read or give her books or anything it only created a possibility that she could survive on her own). She is supposed to not be fed like at all and described at first as skin and bones but then has all these curves. Also, 5'4" is not that small.
There are a lot of inconsistencies with the fact she has been locked away but her mom gave her the birds and bees talk even though she was never exposed to any other people and she has learned a LOT from Cosmo in less than a week. And let's be honest, if all of her real world learning had come from Cosmo like is was written that it did she would know all about back door horror stories 96 ways to lick your man's banana to drive him wild, this season's must have color, embarrassing tampon stories, and probably an in depth interview with Henry Cavill holding puppies as he talks about what it was like making the Witcher, and what he looks for in a girl! (I actually wouldn't be opposed to a picture of Henry Cavill holding puppies. Henry Cavill please don't take offense at my Cosmo dig and forgo any puppy pictures).
Oh, and the author seems to have this odd obsession with putting the FMC in bows as a sexy thing. It just made me think little girl and had me cringing.
I enjoyed it though and will pick up book 2 tp see where the story goes.
Oh, and totally unrelated the Witcher is really good, I had just finished it when I started this, and everyone is still talking about it, which is how Henry Cavill got roped into a random book review.
In conclusion, watch the Witcher, Henry Cavill should take pictures with puppies, Cosmo is not a good way to get a sense of what the world is like outside of a basement, bows are a no, and read this book.
fast-paced