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Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

15 reviews

creolelitbelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Adding Blythe's pov for select chapters was a wonderful choice, because hearing about someone else's impressions of Signa was insightful to the world Grace created. I do not typically read historical romance, regency or not, with the courting of young women during their seasons, tea parties, croquet matches, and fox hunts, but throw in supernatural elements like Signa who reaps lives, Death himself, and now Fate, too? I'm hooked. Book 3 cannot come out soon enough to shine a light on the new relationships. Signa has found family and a home, and Blythe has a life to fight for with no one to hold her back. Wisteria is bound to be full of adventures, snark and sass, and mystical happenings, and romance.

The B&N edition having a chapter after the full novel from Death's pov is a perfect touch to the whole reading experience.

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tabea1409's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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tiana_king's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

While I could guess where the story was going to end I very much enjoyed the journey there. I can’t wait to learn more about Life Death and Fate and how Signa fits in with all of that. Blythe gets some POVs too and I enjoyed them

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courtyshorty's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This one was definitely more of a romance than a mystery, especially in comparison to the first one. Again, the culprit was less exciting than I would have liked. On the bright side, we got a better understanding of Signa’s powers, and it was enjoyable seeing things from Blythes POV. I look forward to seeing her torment Fate in the 3rd book.

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xom4e's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

I would give this 10 stars if I could! Big loves. I didn’t think this would be better than the first book, Belladonna, but it absolutely positively was!! 10/10

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alisylvi's review

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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casualk's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

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frantically's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

today i am: missing belladonna :(

Belladonna was one of my fav 2022 reads and I'm so disappointed to say that the sequel just didn't hold up.

Whereas Belladona was Death & Signa's story with a side of murder & mischief, Foxglove was murder & mischief with a side of Signa and a few too little scenes of Death.

I think I'm not alone in saying that their relationship was one of the best parts of the first book, though! And I really spent too much time with Foxglove where I was just waiting for Death to show up again...

Signa returns to her old home, Foxglove (duh), in this sequel. There's loads of back story and soo many descriptions of this house and now, looking back, it was all very nice but also didn't really add that much to the story.

We do get a new addition to our cast, Fate, and from the get-go I just couldn't really care about him. I've read so many iterations of this man in the last years (other reviewers have rightfully brought up Caraval...), I'm tired, okay??

As much as we all despise love triangles, I think the worst ones are when it's just not a triangle at all, it's a freaking line with some random other guy going "but what about me 😭😭" in the distance. Signa couldn't give any fucks about Fate and neither could I. For me, it was obvious from the start that he was

probably going to end up with Blythe in the end, so the love triangle part was just unnecessary.

I did like the "Life" storyline and though I was on the right path from the start, the author managed to make me doubt myself and start to make up other theories, so well done on that part! I wish we could've spent more time on Signa's powers in this part, there's still so much we don't know about!

What the author couldn't trick me about was

the oath part 😤 I've read enough Fae novels Ms. Grace!! I saw what you were doing there!!

Gotta say, I don't know if I'm just not as "in" the YA scene anymore as I once was, but from an editorial standpoint, it's just so...weird to completely change main characters (and thus main relationships!) mid-trilogy? Blythe is a nice enough character and I really enjoyed her in the more sidekick role we got of her at the beginning of Foxglove but with her and

Fate

now as the mains of Wisteria, I'm just really not excited for it :(

At the end I was slightly scared we weren't going to get a Death and Signa HEA, so I was very happy with what we did get but it was still so little!

I'm not saying that this book was particularly bad, it was a nice enough read but for me it was just a let down. I think it really hinges on how much you loved Blythe in the first book!

I also just wanted more Death and Signa content and I'm not afraid to admit that.

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kstacy91's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The 2nd book in the Belladonna series was a wild, intriguing ride.

The story continues with Signa trying to figure out if Fate’s statement is right: that she is the reincarnation of Life.

With dark twists and morally grey characters that make sense, this is a great next installation. If you loved the first one, you’re gonna love Foxglove more. Highly recommend if you love romance with angsty moments, humorous banter between characters, and reckoning with past regrets with no automatic “fix”. Thoroughly looking forward to Wisteria.

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kassidyreads's review against another edition

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mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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