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Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

16 reviews

frantically's review against another edition

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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