340 reviews for:

Between Life & Death

Jaclyn Kot

3.73 AVERAGE

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readingbykara's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

Just not it for me.
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Intrigued from the beginning

Let’s start of by saying that some of the twists in this book are insane – insane in a good way that had me gasping in either horror or delight at wat unveils. As this is a series, i know some will come to make more sense as I then further progress through the book, but wow some caught me off guard.

From the start of the book, you do start learning about the world which can be slight overwhelming here and there. But nevertheless, as the book progressed it then became easier to retain and sort through the information. Learning more so about certain characters did have me questioning possibilities early on about what was to happen. Certain hints and storytelling were more obvious than others. Having found this series advertised by the second book, alongside the information from this first book, it was obvious who Sage was. Von was also very easy to pick up on his identity, but that man screamed his powers anyways.

Talking of Von, he is my new obsession. From the first bit of page time, you know he is the morally grey guy us readers will love. To some he is the villain, but this is where the rebirth and thousands of years of history will be unveiled, I'm sure. For now, he is peak, handsome and quiet, protective man – who is more god than man.

I’m excited to continue reading on, I can’t wait to make sense of the final scene of the book and see how we get out from this. But by final scene I mean of both the book and bonus chapter at the end because those who twists had me sitting up in bed shocked.
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this would have been so good if it was labelled correctly, it's not an enemies to lovers at all. the whole story was overshadowed by my disappointment of what was wasn't there. i really enjoyed the plot and the storyline but there just wasn't much depth at all, within the storyline, the characters and their relationships. 
it wasn't bad per say but i just couldn't enjoy it when things i expected and wanted to be there weren't especially when the author herself said they would. 
adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark 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: Yes
adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

camillearr's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

DNF 27%. Cringe, childish, the flow of the story feels strange, everything feels kinda forced and not well thought out. Not for me.