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alisonaroberts 's review for:
The South Wind
by Alexandria Warwick
It’s been a least a year since I read The North Wind and where we first learned of the dark walkers so it was hard for me to remember what exactly they did/do. The North Wind is where we also learn of the 4 gods that are brothers - north, south, east, west wind.
I felt that this story seemed weak and didn’t flow well. There were sooooo many secrets and it got really frustrating the more you read.
The FMC was hard to like. On one hand, I feel bad for her, and on the other hand, she could learn to trust and communicate a bit better. Omg if they just had a conversation!!! I got so sick of the back and forth. Be honest with each other people. It’s not hard. I would say this is a disastrous amount of miscommunication between all character. FMC and MMC were in love but her brother told him to go away because of some stuff. He goes away and she falls into depression. The brother who told him to go away kills himself after not even passing on the letter the MMC wrote to FMC and seeing his sister so depressed.
5 years later MMC is back and doesn’t tell her about any of this until her dad died. Oh and not to mention she is not telling ANYONE she is cursed to die on her 25th birthday which is days away.
And then there was a labyrinth? *screams in cliches*
“What letter?” --> I love this trope.
“You came”
It probably only got good in part 2. And also when we met the East Wind.
I wanted to like this more than I did but there were some questions left unanswered. Which of her brothers was jealous of her? It sounded like both or maybe one was lying about it and blamed the other. I'm not entirely sure.
Also, the one who cursed her ended up being the East Wind? And the curse to break was just removing the darkness from her heart. Except she was cursed when she was a baby and obviously had no darkness until she grew up and was thrust into the life of a princess putting duty before everything.
The villain was dumb too. Why release the beast and the dark walkers? They will destroy the world. The villain wants to expand his empire but there will be nothing left. Idiots. Then he just disappears with the beast and dark walkers? What the heck??
I'd like to see all the brothers back together at some point. Hopefully that happens in The East Wind.
"Because it is my voice when I cannot speak myself."
"For that is the power of music, to reach into our hearts to touch those pieces of ourselves that we are too afraid to acknowledge."
Scent: only salt and black iris mentioned
Songs: anything with violins. I pictured Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
I still think The North Wind was my favourite so far.
I felt that this story seemed weak and didn’t flow well. There were sooooo many secrets and it got really frustrating the more you read.
5 years later MMC is back and doesn’t tell her about any of this until her dad died. Oh and not to mention she is not telling ANYONE she is cursed to die on her 25th birthday which is days away.
And then there was a labyrinth? *screams in cliches*
“What letter?” --> I love this trope.
“You came”
It probably only got good in part 2. And also when we met the East Wind.
I wanted to like this more than I did but there were some questions left unanswered. Which of her brothers was jealous of her? It sounded like both or maybe one was lying about it and blamed the other. I'm not entirely sure.
Also, the one who cursed her ended up being the East Wind? And the curse to break was just removing the darkness from her heart. Except she was cursed when she was a baby and obviously had no darkness until she grew up and was thrust into the life of a princess putting duty before everything.
The villain was dumb too. Why release the beast and the dark walkers? They will destroy the world. The villain wants to expand his empire but there will be nothing left. Idiots. Then he just disappears with the beast and dark walkers? What the heck??
I'd like to see all the brothers back together at some point. Hopefully that happens in The East Wind.
"Because it is my voice when I cannot speak myself."
"For that is the power of music, to reach into our hearts to touch those pieces of ourselves that we are too afraid to acknowledge."
Scent: only salt and black iris mentioned
Songs: anything with violins. I pictured Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
I still think The North Wind was my favourite so far.