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River of Shadows
by Karina Halle
This was somehow underwhelming.
Don’t get me wrong - I had my fun. But it was not what I expected, or hoped, it to be.
Hanna is a Social Media Manager From L.A. thrown into the Underworld without knowing that it even existed.
Whilst she was not super annoying or dumb or anything particularly off-throwing, I somehow did not connect to her.
I’m hoping to see some more fight insight of her in the next book. After all she’s supposed to be a pro at combat techniques.
Death on the other hand really is an intriguing character. We learned basically nothing about his character but enjoyed him nonetheless.
But generally this book introduced tons of different aspects about the world and plotlines which all weren’t really discovered and explained that much.
I desperately hope that this was just the beginning to the story and things will get exciting in the next book.
Cause this was so slow and unexciting?
Nothing really happened over the course of a bit over 300 pages. Especially once Hanna was with Death in his home, the plot did not develop.
And besides their interactions being entertaining there is basically no deeper connection besides awesome sex between them. At least as far as I as a reader know. They never interacted besides the nightly fucking session where things got exciting.
And if I say exciting I mean it. Who knew Death is hot? He is a dirty talker and fucks like the god he is.
The smut was honestly the best part of the book.
So generally the writing was good. The world idea and building so far is decent and intriguing.
But since their neither is a proper plot pacing and development nor any kind of developing relationship between the main characters besides sexual attraction - I can’t with a good consciousness give this a good rating.
I enjoyed reading this, but I needed it to be more. And it just wasn’t.
Hopefully this will get better with the second book. After at it was just the introduction into the story which seems promising to me!
3
Don’t get me wrong - I had my fun. But it was not what I expected, or hoped, it to be.
Hanna is a Social Media Manager From L.A. thrown into the Underworld without knowing that it even existed.
Whilst she was not super annoying or dumb or anything particularly off-throwing, I somehow did not connect to her.
I’m hoping to see some more fight insight of her in the next book. After all she’s supposed to be a pro at combat techniques.
Death on the other hand really is an intriguing character. We learned basically nothing about his character but enjoyed him nonetheless.
But generally this book introduced tons of different aspects about the world and plotlines which all weren’t really discovered and explained that much.
I desperately hope that this was just the beginning to the story and things will get exciting in the next book.
Cause this was so slow and unexciting?
Nothing really happened over the course of a bit over 300 pages. Especially once Hanna was with Death in his home, the plot did not develop.
And besides their interactions being entertaining there is basically no deeper connection besides awesome sex between them. At least as far as I as a reader know. They never interacted besides the nightly fucking session where things got exciting.
And if I say exciting I mean it. Who knew Death is hot? He is a dirty talker and fucks like the god he is.
The smut was honestly the best part of the book.
So generally the writing was good. The world idea and building so far is decent and intriguing.
But since their neither is a proper plot pacing and development nor any kind of developing relationship between the main characters besides sexual attraction - I can’t with a good consciousness give this a good rating.
I enjoyed reading this, but I needed it to be more. And it just wasn’t.
Hopefully this will get better with the second book. After at it was just the introduction into the story which seems promising to me!
3