jagodasbooks's profile picture

jagodasbooks 's review for:

The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao
2.0
slow-paced

I have very mixed feelings about this book so here we go:

- what hooked me was the idea of this book, sounded great, promised angst and seducing your enemy, but falling in love with him ughhh really wanted that

- but the first 40% was so painfully boring, I was praying for something to happen, but not only nothing really was happening, the main character was very naive and really couldn't understand how she's supposed to be that great seductress when she's making so dumb choices, and I felt absolutely zero chemistry with mmc, maybe it was narrators fault, but for that almost half of this book I imagined mmc like a very old monk with very long beard - because that's exactly how he was acting and how he sounded!!!

- 40%-70% - this was the moment where the most things were happening, here I started to like the characters, was curious what will happen, here I had fun

- 70% - end - it got boring again, I stopped caring about these characters or how their problems will be resolved, will not read another book

overall i think it is too long and instead of filling this book with tension abt her undercover mission and all it was just boring nothing and extremely naive fmc and extremely irritating mmc