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Lore

Alexandra Bracken

3.74 AVERAGE


I'm having heart palpitations
adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to like this book SO badly. And I did like a good portion of it. I think its kind of Hunger-Games-meets-Greek-myths works REALLY well. The whole time I thought something was just kind of... off about it, and another reviewer said it perfectly: everything feels like a climactic moment, and because of that, NOTHING does. There's no moment to rest and I've read better romances with those tropes.

I think this book will be great for some people, and I liked her writing enough to check it out in the future. Just SOMETHING about the pacing didn't click for me, and it might work for others. :)
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

This was a DNF. had such high hopes and the story just fell flat. I kept waiting for it to pick up but it never does so I had to abandon it. For fans of Greek myth, don’t bother.