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A review by alejandra_guerrero
Bound to the Elvin King by Lisa Kumar
2.0
Though this book is presented as a standalone, it's not. There are a lot of things that are mentioned in the first book that you need to know in order to fully enjoy this story. I was 10% into this book when I just had to stop and read the first book in the series (Bound to the elven prince).
Now, there were moments when I just HATED Talion. He's a manipulative SOB. Lies, half-truths, he seems to be incapable of telling the truth to Maggie most of the time, and when he does, it's because it benefits HIM, or he can't hide it any longer. Maggie is exasperating as the heroine; she was a nice sidekick for Cal, but alone she's just annoyingly stubborn, and as much a liar as Talion. At some point I just wished she would leave his manipulative ass, just because he was so sure she would forgive him everything (because of the bond; sometimes I hate the way authors completely eliminate choice for their characters).
As for the conflict with the darkindred, which started in the first book and in this one we're just dumped in the middle of (and part of the reason I just had to stop and read that other book first), it gets solved too quickly and some of the "important" things that were supposed to happen (from some profecy) happen off the page. We're told they happened, which is kinda dissapointing for me. And the way we're told they happened didn't make much sense to me. That was anticlimactic. Overall entertaining, though.
Now, there were moments when I just HATED Talion. He's a manipulative SOB. Lies, half-truths, he seems to be incapable of telling the truth to Maggie most of the time, and when he does, it's because it benefits HIM, or he can't hide it any longer. Maggie is exasperating as the heroine; she was a nice sidekick for Cal, but alone she's just annoyingly stubborn, and as much a liar as Talion. At some point I just wished she would leave his manipulative ass, just because he was so sure she would forgive him everything (because of the bond; sometimes I hate the way authors completely eliminate choice for their characters).
As for the conflict with the darkindred, which started in the first book and in this one we're just dumped in the middle of (and part of the reason I just had to stop and read that other book first), it gets solved too quickly and some of the "important" things that were supposed to happen (from some profecy) happen off the page. We're told they happened, which is kinda dissapointing for me. And the way we're told they happened didn't make much sense to me. That was anticlimactic. Overall entertaining, though.