kblum 's review for:

The Curse of Sins by Kate Dramis

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I will admit I didn’t reread the first book before jumping into this, so I definitely had to look up multiple reviews to remember. The book takes off right from where the first book ends. The beginning is looking at the repercussions of what happened in the last book, and how this affects the characters moving forward. 

There is so much betrayal and suspicion within the storyline that it was difficult to truly know who you could trust and who was acting. I felt a bit of the middle book syndrome with the middle portion. It was a bit slow with plot and heavy on political intrigue. The ending got wild and I gasped a few times while listening. 

Honestly with this story the characters and their interactions keep me more invested than the magic system, which I think is a bit convoluted. (Maybe I would understand the magic system more on reread). I absolutely love the characters and their interactions with one another. The author does a good job in making me love and absolutely hate characters. There was good development of themselves and relationships with each other. The romantic angst was real in parts of this story. Aya and Will are one of my favorite couples to follow, because they at least talk to each other sooner rather than later.

I am so excited to see the conclusion of the story, but am disappointed it isn’t going to be out anytime soon. In terms of the audiobook quality, I really enjoyed the narration and it was very compulsive to listen to.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media and Netgalley for the early access to an audiobook in return for a review.