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A review by breesel
The Damaged by Tijan
4.0
3.75* spoilers !
so sorry it’s 2am. here’s a rare busy crazy review rant thing bc i’m bored and if i don’t get these thoughts written i’ll keep thinking abt it
was very excited for this but it was a slow read for me only bc i felt like nothing was really happening. it was a lot of background stuff and i had trouble remembering events and people from the first book but after the 75% mark the plot was getting good and quick. also love the development between matt and bailey i hope we see more of them but god that cliff hanger?-?:?:$&3 the last three chapters were intense and now we gotta wait even longer.
to summarize it in more depth, the short chapters helped me get through this, a lot of the plot i thought was gonna be the main point of this book was swept away and was only there at the end of the book especially with the whole quinn thing. there was maybe three mentions of quinn and where she was at that present time not including flashbacks and i thought she would be more of a person of interest when it comes to antagonist. i don’t even think she had any dialogue, and i found that weird bc she was literally part of the cliff hanger in the first one and you’d think we would see her more in this one.
and also the grandfather,, he was barely in it? like twice maybe three times idk he was the main villain and he wasn’t even present really so i was just kinda confused but that’s why i feel like it was slow. a lot of this book was development of the characters and relationships along with minor subplots, which is fine and i don’t mind at all but i genuinely found the main plot with quinn and the grandfather to be very interesting as well from the first book and i was bummed it wasn’t explored more along with the subplots and development of the characters in my honest opinion.
moving on, the last two chapters were intense im so sad for bailey shes really going through a lot. this book really tested her strength and durability as a character especially since her life was completely flipped in a short period of time and although i do wish we could’ve seen more of her being a bad ass hacking into shit and ruining everyone’s lives like they deserve, i understand why there really wasn’t that. thinking more about it now, this book really focused on bailey and how she was and wasn’t coping but at the same time it never really hit home like i expected either,? idk a lot of this book ran flat compared to the first one but once i got 75-80% through it was just flying i wish the entire book was that easy to read especially bc that cliff hanger oh man oh man
overall not exactly disappointing but not blown away like i was with the first one but i will be seated for the final book because i’m invested and that cliff hanger messed me up.
so sorry it’s 2am. here’s a rare busy crazy review rant thing bc i’m bored and if i don’t get these thoughts written i’ll keep thinking abt it
was very excited for this but it was a slow read for me only bc i felt like nothing was really happening. it was a lot of background stuff and i had trouble remembering events and people from the first book but after the 75% mark the plot was getting good and quick. also love the development between matt and bailey i hope we see more of them but god that cliff hanger?-?:?:$&3 the last three chapters were intense and now we gotta wait even longer.
to summarize it in more depth, the short chapters helped me get through this, a lot of the plot i thought was gonna be the main point of this book was swept away and was only there at the end of the book especially with the whole quinn thing. there was maybe three mentions of quinn and where she was at that present time not including flashbacks and i thought she would be more of a person of interest when it comes to antagonist. i don’t even think she had any dialogue, and i found that weird bc she was literally part of the cliff hanger in the first one and you’d think we would see her more in this one.
and also the grandfather,, he was barely in it? like twice maybe three times idk he was the main villain and he wasn’t even present really so i was just kinda confused but that’s why i feel like it was slow. a lot of this book was development of the characters and relationships along with minor subplots, which is fine and i don’t mind at all but i genuinely found the main plot with quinn and the grandfather to be very interesting as well from the first book and i was bummed it wasn’t explored more along with the subplots and development of the characters in my honest opinion.
moving on, the last two chapters were intense im so sad for bailey shes really going through a lot. this book really tested her strength and durability as a character especially since her life was completely flipped in a short period of time and although i do wish we could’ve seen more of her being a bad ass hacking into shit and ruining everyone’s lives like they deserve, i understand why there really wasn’t that. thinking more about it now, this book really focused on bailey and how she was and wasn’t coping but at the same time it never really hit home like i expected either,? idk a lot of this book ran flat compared to the first one but once i got 75-80% through it was just flying i wish the entire book was that easy to read especially bc that cliff hanger oh man oh man
overall not exactly disappointing but not blown away like i was with the first one but i will be seated for the final book because i’m invested and that cliff hanger messed me up.