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Ruthless Gods
by Emily A. Duncan
Ruthless Gods picks up where the first book Wicked Saints left off, and the base characters are quickly reintroduced into the plot as Nadya, Serefin and Malachiasz each have their reason for making the journey to the place of the old gods.
The Something Dark and Holy trilogy is confusing because I never know how I feel about the books after I read them. It's a series of books that I want to like and actually do want to read, yet when I'm in the middle of reading them I don't particularly enjoy the book (and yet I'll still read the third one in the series when it comes out). As a few other reviewers have said, the book's pacing is so sluggish that it becomes a chore to get through. A lot of the plot and description is repetitive (how many do blood and eyeballs need to be repeated?). There are also places where the characters don't seem like themselves (ex: Nadya drops the f-bomb twice in the book in relative quick succession, but never before and never again. It stands out as odd).
Like the first book, the most entertaining part is the last 30 or so pages. Duncan packs a lot of suspensful action in those page, and that part is what saves the book.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book.
The Something Dark and Holy trilogy is confusing because I never know how I feel about the books after I read them. It's a series of books that I want to like and actually do want to read, yet when I'm in the middle of reading them I don't particularly enjoy the book (and yet I'll still read the third one in the series when it comes out). As a few other reviewers have said, the book's pacing is so sluggish that it becomes a chore to get through. A lot of the plot and description is repetitive (how many do blood and eyeballs need to be repeated?). There are also places where the characters don't seem like themselves (ex: Nadya drops the f-bomb twice in the book in relative quick succession, but never before and never again. It stands out as odd).
Like the first book, the most entertaining part is the last 30 or so pages. Duncan packs a lot of suspensful action in those page, and that part is what saves the book.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book.