A review by c45p1n
What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

k i’m making a list
  • this book is literaly acotar’s doppelgänger (derogatory) (in regards to the characters)
  • very predictable
  • ends on a cliff hanger (is part of a trilogy)
  • tropes: fae & faeries, fated mates/soulmates, gods, betrayal, one bed trope (sorta? more of a cling-to-each-other-for-body-heat type of one bed), death is a trope., magic, strangers to lovers, (idk how to describe it but) surviving together, i hate everyone but you (male mc), grumpy x grumpier, again (bc there is so much) character death, um yeah. can’t think of anything else, OH “who did this to you” trope ON BOTH SIDES, yeah that’s abt it
  • OH: it felt like a video game in the sense that you had to complete a goal and talk to someone and then just be in stasis for the rest of the story, like just the middle 150 pages were nothingness but the FMC & MMC flirting and traveling with nothing actually happening in that chuck of time. 
  • same with the beginning sorta. it was just 1) the veil shattered, 2) XXX & FMC ran away, 3) 50 pages later they meet the MMC, 4) battle against the enemies, 5) the middle where literally nothing plot-heavy happens til chapter 28 
  • pretty smutty tbh, not amount-wise but kink-wise
  • i’m honestly kinda stumped on what to rate this but i think i’m gonna split it up then find the average and do it from there but you can just use these rates for generality
  • plot: 4/10; characters: 7.5/10; smut: 7/10; monologue: 5/10, dialogue: 7/10; world-building: 8/10; fae history explanation: 8/10 (there was a glossary), character likeability: 8/10
  • using my 200 dollar calculator, the mean is ≈ 7 so that’s like a 3.25 in my mind
  • literally everyone died except the main character and love interest💀
  • idk why but kinda reminded me of the hunger games
  • read TWs before reading the book fs !!!!!!
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