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A review by jadalm
Flame and Starlight by Dana Isaly
1.0
Ummm, honestly there is no way that I could try to describe this story with it sounding like A CARBON COPY of the “ACOTAR” series.
The best intro I can give is that the main character, Alyssandra, is a 22 year old women whose mother always told her “eccentric” stories of fae and mystical powers. Over the course of the book she finds there to be more truth to her mother’s words than she could have ever imagined.
The one thing that I did like about this book is the high fantasy/romance. With that being said I feel that the book is extremely rushed for it to be enemies to lovers and the first book of a series. I also say that, the fact that this book is relatively new and basically ALL the details have been taken from another book is very disrespectful and unprofessional(mind you Mrs. Maas published her series in 2015). The author didn’t try to hide it either; like having Alys being the mate of the high lord of the night court, Asher’s faery dust on her neck (that has the same ability as Ryhsand’s tattoo for Feyre), and more that I won't disclose for the sake of spoiling.
I will back off and say that with this specific type of fantasy, I can see how it would be harder to become more original. You’d have to have a solid plan to create and entire world from scratch; but that is the task that most authors love.
My final thoughts would be that Tiktok TOTALLY over-hyped this book. The smut was equivalent to stuff you see on Wattpad. It is not a slow burn at all; they fell in love in one month. I would say read it for yourself and come back to the blog and see if you can understand where everyone is coming from
The best intro I can give is that the main character, Alyssandra, is a 22 year old women whose mother always told her “eccentric” stories of fae and mystical powers. Over the course of the book she finds there to be more truth to her mother’s words than she could have ever imagined.
The one thing that I did like about this book is the high fantasy/romance. With that being said I feel that the book is extremely rushed for it to be enemies to lovers and the first book of a series. I also say that, the fact that this book is relatively new and basically ALL the details have been taken from another book is very disrespectful and unprofessional(mind you Mrs. Maas published her series in 2015). The author didn’t try to hide it either; like having Alys being the mate of the high lord of the night court, Asher’s faery dust on her neck (that has the same ability as Ryhsand’s tattoo for Feyre), and more that I won't disclose for the sake of spoiling.
I will back off and say that with this specific type of fantasy, I can see how it would be harder to become more original. You’d have to have a solid plan to create and entire world from scratch; but that is the task that most authors love.
My final thoughts would be that Tiktok TOTALLY over-hyped this book. The smut was equivalent to stuff you see on Wattpad. It is not a slow burn at all; they fell in love in one month. I would say read it for yourself and come back to the blog and see if you can understand where everyone is coming from