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Princess of Souls
by Alexandra Christo
1 ⭑ - Not for me
DNF. I got 38% through before I put it down. I disliked it for the same reasons I disliked To Kill A Kingdom, but at least the first book of the series dragged on less. I am aware I left the book at the point where things were starting to pick up more motion, but I could not be bothered anymore to keep going.
I just did not care at all about the main characters, and their relationship felt forced. Very much like what happened with Lira and Elian in To Kill a Kingdom, for someone who was thirsting over Selestra's death, Nox grows fond of her quickly, unconvincingly quickly.
Christo presents us with another novel which had what sounded like a promising premise of revenge and betrayal; Nox seeking to destroy the king and Selestra's death being tied to Nox's. This intrigued me and made for an interesting dynamic between them, but I was let down, at least as far as I got. She was sloppy, flirting was once again (like in To Kill a Kingdom) simply sassing one another even though everyone else sasses them equally (if not more), so there is nothing unique about their relationship, the main characters set up themselves to be the most skilled, the most talented, the most unique, but are as dull as a broken lightbulb (survival skills are nil), murderous intentions and the revenge of a lifetime are forgotten because of a pretty face, all of these and more.
But honestly, on the topic of self-preservation, how can someone have so little? I was baffled, perplex, mystified, thrown-off, stumped... at how dense Seletra is. Picture this. You get a vision of your own death, stakes are pretty high if I do say so myself. How does this happen, you may wonder? Well, it occurs when you are in the company of a man who you usually never see in your daily life, you would actually have to go very out of your way to seek him out, and I do put that emphasis in very; very out of your way. Now, this death will happen when you are with him, in the same room as him (which, by the way, you have never seen any room like that one before so it must be outside of the safety of the castle you know like the back of your hand), that is when you will die. Pretty easy to avoid right? If you stay in your guarded castle with the king whose immortality relies on your powers, nothing should go badly, right? Rather easy to not meet this man who never crosses your path, right? WRONG. YOU WERE WRONG. This half-witted girl's first instinct upon seeing that her death happens when she is with Nox is to escape the castle by herself and look for him????? Are you for real? She should have already died at that point. No one can convince me otherwise, she would be first to die in a horror film.
Further on that though, considering Selestra is supposedly the sole heir to a unique power no one else in the land has except for her mother, this witch is not very well supervised and can get out of the castle a bit too easily. Do you think immortal king over there has been alive for this long being that careless? I think the fuck not. Realistically, this girl should be under lock and key with a guard stuck to her side 24/7.
Their friends were also very lacking in depth and felt like they were there just for the sake of filling up space, might as well have had carboard cut-outs in their place, wouldn't have made too much of a difference for how much they contributed.
Anyway, my conclusion is that they are absolute muppets, the whole lot of them.
DNF. I got 38% through before I put it down. I disliked it for the same reasons I disliked To Kill A Kingdom, but at least the first book of the series dragged on less. I am aware I left the book at the point where things were starting to pick up more motion, but I could not be bothered anymore to keep going.
I just did not care at all about the main characters, and their relationship felt forced. Very much like what happened with Lira and Elian in To Kill a Kingdom, for someone who was thirsting over Selestra's death, Nox grows fond of her quickly, unconvincingly quickly.
Christo presents us with another novel which had what sounded like a promising premise of revenge and betrayal; Nox seeking to destroy the king and Selestra's death being tied to Nox's. This intrigued me and made for an interesting dynamic between them, but I was let down, at least as far as I got. She was sloppy, flirting was once again (like in To Kill a Kingdom) simply sassing one another even though everyone else sasses them equally (if not more), so there is nothing unique about their relationship, the main characters set up themselves to be the most skilled, the most talented, the most unique, but are as dull as a broken lightbulb (survival skills are nil), murderous intentions and the revenge of a lifetime are forgotten because of a pretty face, all of these and more.
But honestly, on the topic of self-preservation, how can someone have so little? I was baffled, perplex, mystified, thrown-off, stumped... at how dense Seletra is. Picture this. You get a vision of your own death, stakes are pretty high if I do say so myself. How does this happen, you may wonder? Well, it occurs when you are in the company of a man who you usually never see in your daily life, you would actually have to go very out of your way to seek him out, and I do put that emphasis in very; very out of your way. Now, this death will happen when you are with him, in the same room as him (which, by the way, you have never seen any room like that one before so it must be outside of the safety of the castle you know like the back of your hand), that is when you will die. Pretty easy to avoid right? If you stay in your guarded castle with the king whose immortality relies on your powers, nothing should go badly, right? Rather easy to not meet this man who never crosses your path, right? WRONG. YOU WERE WRONG. This half-witted girl's first instinct upon seeing that her death happens when she is with Nox is to escape the castle by herself and look for him????? Are you for real? She should have already died at that point. No one can convince me otherwise, she would be first to die in a horror film.
Further on that though, considering Selestra is supposedly the sole heir to a unique power no one else in the land has except for her mother, this witch is not very well supervised and can get out of the castle a bit too easily. Do you think immortal king over there has been alive for this long being that careless? I think the fuck not. Realistically, this girl should be under lock and key with a guard stuck to her side 24/7.
Their friends were also very lacking in depth and felt like they were there just for the sake of filling up space, might as well have had carboard cut-outs in their place, wouldn't have made too much of a difference for how much they contributed.
Anyway, my conclusion is that they are absolute muppets, the whole lot of them.