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A review by lilonishi
Nightbane by Alex Aster
3.0
i wanted to love this one, i really really did, but it just didn't seem as good as the first book for me. It doesn't help that it took me 2 months to finish reading this, but it was just so slowly paced that i kept losing interest in what was happened, and only kept reading it because i knew that the third book was meant to be really good (not that i think i'll continue the series)
again, it was just the pacing that threw me off and annoyed me the most, as well as how annoying Isla was. i really thought that she would act a little different here because of all that she overcome in the last book, but nope, if anything she actually seemed more whiny and annoying.
There were some really cool and really interesting things that happened, lots of little easter eggs and moments where the story started clicking together more, but i just couldn't look past how boring the majority of the book was. Did i like the romance between Isla and Oro? eh. did i like the romance between Isla and Grim? eh. it always just seemed so flat, and like it had been thrown in as a selling point/after though? idk ok.
The most interesting part of the book was right at the end when all of the past memories start to make sense, and one big memory is revealed and she goes on to betray Oro and everything that she has worked on building this entire book.
again, if the majority hadn't been so boring and slow, this would have been a really really really great follow on from Lightlark, but there was just so much useless bonding and day to day living that i couldn't care in the end, BUT, it was still good overall and kinda enjoyable
again, it was just the pacing that threw me off and annoyed me the most, as well as how annoying Isla was. i really thought that she would act a little different here because of all that she overcome in the last book, but nope, if anything she actually seemed more whiny and annoying.
There were some really cool and really interesting things that happened, lots of little easter eggs and moments where the story started clicking together more, but i just couldn't look past how boring the majority of the book was. Did i like the romance between Isla and Oro? eh. did i like the romance between Isla and Grim? eh. it always just seemed so flat, and like it had been thrown in as a selling point/after though? idk ok.
The most interesting part of the book was right at the end when all of the past memories start to make sense, and one big memory is revealed and she goes on to betray Oro and everything that she has worked on building this entire book.
again, if the majority hadn't been so boring and slow, this would have been a really really really great follow on from Lightlark, but there was just so much useless bonding and day to day living that i couldn't care in the end, BUT, it was still good overall and kinda enjoyable