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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I am conflicted with this book. I feel like it could have been 200 pages less. It’s giving, “this could have been an email” energy. Great world building but the pacing was very slow. While I love spice with my plot, I felt as if some of those scenes could have been cut as it was just the same scenes repeated. I knew who the villain was immediately, and I kept wanting to get back to the plot to flesh more of the story out. Just when you thought you’d move on to the plot you’d have another sex scene. We love the hot sapphic baddies, but towards the end I ended up skimming the spicy scenes because of the repetitiveness, which was a shame because they were hot. But at this point the book was dragging on. I felt like it was never ending. The book didn’t pick back up until about 90%. I thought a few times about DNFing, but I was curious to see how things ended. On a cliffhanger that’s how they ended. I’ll have to see come September if I’m interested in continuing to the second book.
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
If you are a major fan of Sailor Moon, specifically fans of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. This is a must read! You can tell this book is a love letter to Haruka and Michiru which I love! Also the spice is good yay!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy
such a fun sapphic romantasy! easy to get into and the world isn’t super complicated. i’m not the biggest fan of insta-lust, but i actually didn’t mind it in this one!
This whole thing is a spoiler, I only listen to 3/18 part of the audiobook.
Too many illogical events. Why did the Queen only assign Maris as the maid to care for the princess when she was new? Her reason was that Maris was able to handle Valda when she was at her wildest stage during her bd party where she lost her vision. The thing is Maris was just hired on that day, she does not know anything regarding the castle or how to care for a royal, couldn't the Queen Rionach assigned a talented maid along with Maris to show her the rope? Also she'd trust a completely new maid, who's of a race she hates, to care for her now blind daughter with no supervision from anyone?
Make no sense.
Another was when Valda woke up and then made a comment about how it's night time, but she's blind...and no one even mentioned how long she rested for after that intense pain which made her passed out. This one is minor but it added up.
Then another weird plot hole is soon after the princess woke up from her passing out on her bd, the Queen must now travel to find the healer and she decided to leave the kingdom in the hand of a powerful general, which btw he's the villain, she might not know but she already didn't like that he seems to train Valda too hard, almost to the point of abuse imo. Anyway, she now has to leave her own kingdom to find the healer, which beg the question... what's stopping her from sending the damn general instead? At this part if the story it seems to indicate that she's sleeping with him and trust him more already, so why is she leaving her own kingdom while he stays and rule for her? Couldn't she find anyone else to do her errands...
Too many illogical events. Why did the Queen only assign Maris as the maid to care for the princess when she was new? Her reason was that Maris was able to handle Valda when she was at her wildest stage during her bd party where she lost her vision. The thing is Maris was just hired on that day, she does not know anything regarding the castle or how to care for a royal, couldn't the Queen Rionach assigned a talented maid along with Maris to show her the rope? Also she'd trust a completely new maid, who's of a race she hates, to care for her now blind daughter with no supervision from anyone?
Make no sense.
Another was when Valda woke up and then made a comment about how it's night time, but she's blind...and no one even mentioned how long she rested for after that intense pain which made her passed out. This one is minor but it added up.
Then another weird plot hole is soon after the princess woke up from her passing out on her bd, the Queen must now travel to find the healer and she decided to leave the kingdom in the hand of a powerful general, which btw he's the villain, she might not know but she already didn't like that he seems to train Valda too hard, almost to the point of abuse imo. Anyway, she now has to leave her own kingdom to find the healer, which beg the question... what's stopping her from sending the damn general instead? At this part if the story it seems to indicate that she's sleeping with him and trust him more already, so why is she leaving her own kingdom while he stays and rule for her? Couldn't she find anyone else to do her errands...
Oof, the writing in this was absolutely atrocious. Grammar mistakes, sophomoric writing, just all-around awful. I made it about 30% of the book before I had to jetison.
You know how there are some book you want to live in? Well this one is one of those books for me. The first chapters stumble a little but it just keeps getting so much better.
It´s fun, spicy, relatable, endearing... I loooooved this book.
The characters are so well written and the vocabulary and style writing... chef kiss. Can't wait to read the second part.
CC thank you so much for this book, it's going direct to my favs.
It´s fun, spicy, relatable, endearing... I loooooved this book.
The characters are so well written and the vocabulary and style writing... chef kiss. Can't wait to read the second part.
CC thank you so much for this book, it's going direct to my favs.
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 have mixed feelings about this book. I liked the romance, but also found the plot and the events happening to be very disconnected and contrived.
Valda is the heir of the Sky Kingdom, and she was prophesied to meet her soulmate, the heir of the Sea Kingdom, on her 25th birthday. But the Sea Kingdom was destroyed by a storm years before and the princess was lost. Maris is a Sealian who was orphaned as an infant and adopted by a Skylian soldier. While the Sky Kingdom sheltered the nation-less Sealians, the Sealians were also strongly discriminated against in the kingdom. Maris, with the help of her childhood friend, gets a job at the palace to help with the festivities celebrating Princess Valda's 25th birthday, but when the princess is cursed and left blind, Maris is tasked to assist the now-blind princess. Without her sight, the princess cannot establish a soulmate bond, but she cannot deny the attraction growing between her and her assistant.
The plot made zero sense, and that messed with my reading experience. One of the things that was so confusing to me, is how a lot of relevant things just happen off-screen when the book spends so much time on events that seem not as important.
SPOILERY RANT:
Maris is a Sealian, working in a tavern. It's explicitly said that Sealians have a very hard time finding work because of rampant discrimination. Somehow, her best friend who works as a maid at the palace, manages to get Maris hired, even though no Sealian is really allowed to work there. Then, right as she was going in to work, she stumbles upon the neighbouring country's prince who decides to just bring her to the Queen to fast-track her application. The Queen is said to distrust Sealians but right that moment she's like "ok let's hire her", for no reason (especially since she was shown to get angry when Valda hired a Sealian soldier). Then Maris, despite having worked there for one day, is sent to take care of the birthday festivities. And of course, when Valda is being cursed, Maris is the only one who can?? tackle Valda??? and that prompts the Queen to order Maris as Valda's assistant????? No one looked into this girl, no background check nothing she was just tasked to assist Valda who is now blind. Maris is a Sealian without any known family background who appears on Valda's 25th birthday, the day Valda was supposed to meet her soulmate, the princess to the Sea Kingdom. Hmmmmm, I wonder who Maris could actually be. But also, Maris is almost 21, and of course the soulmate system only reveals one soulmate after their 21st birthday. This felt sooo contrived and random, only made to fit the story. Anyway, the politics of this book sucked, oh, the General who was splattered with blood when Valda's dad died and who has been openly hostile towards Valda and literally threatened her & Maris multiple times is the villain??? No way. I feel like the book should've either hidden his agenda for the surprise, or used him as a red herring to hide another villain, because this felt so lazy. The side characters were flat and uninteresting, I wanted to like Maris' maid best friend, and I was excited to see she had a love character, but this was all off screen and only a mention and I was so disappointed. Kayden, the neighbouring country's Prince and Valda's best friend was fun as hell too, I wanted to see more of him but nope.
The romance was fine, but the fact that the plot was so disappointing ruined it a little for me. Also at first, Valda feels a little too comfortable using her power and status to order Maris around and I was like ew no, but then they start to have sex and be whipped for each other and that was cute as hell.
But it was just not enough to make me forget the whole debacle of the plot, plus the huge amount of typos and editing mistakes, kinda killed the hype I had for this book. I will probably keep the next book in my PTR for now (it's coming out next year) but I'll see how I feel then. I do want to see more of the other characters, though...... but yeah, plot-wise, the "twist" at the end was pretty obvious and I'm not really all that invested in the main story, oops.
Valda is the heir of the Sky Kingdom, and she was prophesied to meet her soulmate, the heir of the Sea Kingdom, on her 25th birthday. But the Sea Kingdom was destroyed by a storm years before and the princess was lost. Maris is a Sealian who was orphaned as an infant and adopted by a Skylian soldier. While the Sky Kingdom sheltered the nation-less Sealians, the Sealians were also strongly discriminated against in the kingdom. Maris, with the help of her childhood friend, gets a job at the palace to help with the festivities celebrating Princess Valda's 25th birthday, but when the princess is cursed and left blind, Maris is tasked to assist the now-blind princess. Without her sight, the princess cannot establish a soulmate bond, but she cannot deny the attraction growing between her and her assistant.
The plot made zero sense, and that messed with my reading experience. One of the things that was so confusing to me, is how a lot of relevant things just happen off-screen when the book spends so much time on events that seem not as important.
SPOILERY RANT:
Maris is a Sealian, working in a tavern. It's explicitly said that Sealians have a very hard time finding work because of rampant discrimination. Somehow, her best friend who works as a maid at the palace, manages to get Maris hired, even though no Sealian is really allowed to work there. Then, right as she was going in to work, she stumbles upon the neighbouring country's prince who decides to just bring her to the Queen to fast-track her application. The Queen is said to distrust Sealians but right that moment she's like "ok let's hire her", for no reason (especially since she was shown to get angry when Valda hired a Sealian soldier). Then Maris, despite having worked there for one day, is sent to take care of the birthday festivities. And of course, when Valda is being cursed, Maris is the only one who can?? tackle Valda??? and that prompts the Queen to order Maris as Valda's assistant????? No one looked into this girl, no background check nothing she was just tasked to assist Valda who is now blind. Maris is a Sealian without any known family background who appears on Valda's 25th birthday, the day Valda was supposed to meet her soulmate, the princess to the Sea Kingdom. Hmmmmm, I wonder who Maris could actually be. But also, Maris is almost 21, and of course the soulmate system only reveals one soulmate after their 21st birthday. This felt sooo contrived and random, only made to fit the story. Anyway, the politics of this book sucked, oh, the General who was splattered with blood when Valda's dad died and who has been openly hostile towards Valda and literally threatened her & Maris multiple times is the villain??? No way. I feel like the book should've either hidden his agenda for the surprise, or used him as a red herring to hide another villain, because this felt so lazy. The side characters were flat and uninteresting, I wanted to like Maris' maid best friend, and I was excited to see she had a love character, but this was all off screen and only a mention and I was so disappointed. Kayden, the neighbouring country's Prince and Valda's best friend was fun as hell too, I wanted to see more of him but nope.
The romance was fine, but the fact that the plot was so disappointing ruined it a little for me. Also at first, Valda feels a little too comfortable using her power and status to order Maris around and I was like ew no, but then they start to have sex and be whipped for each other and that was cute as hell.
But it was just not enough to make me forget the whole debacle of the plot, plus the huge amount of typos and editing mistakes, kinda killed the hype I had for this book. I will probably keep the next book in my PTR for now (it's coming out next year) but I'll see how I feel then. I do want to see more of the other characters, though...... but yeah, plot-wise, the "twist" at the end was pretty obvious and I'm not really all that invested in the main story, oops.