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Thorn Season
by Kiera Azar
this was fun! more politics focused and alissa was a great character narrative to read - badass, snarky and making moves she has a gripping narrative to read
the main plot was interesting with the hunters and wielders clash and dynamics of them hunting down magic users. it's kinda reminiscent of shadow and bone (grisha vs non grisha and the whole darkling committing genocide thing) especially with the final twist of Erik being similar in his motivations and kidnapping her then holding hostage until she agrees to what he wants but she thankfully escapes. I loved this direction of the story.
the romances- so alissa had chemistry with everyone and I enjoyed the writing for all three dynamics she had with teil, garret and even erik individually
it's clear the endgame is teil and there's no one i feel stronger for her to end up with which works for their tension and romance that is fleshed out well enough for now. as a romantasy I'm expecting this focus will kick into gear in the sequel as in this one, I'd say is more fantasy orientated at the moment - not a bad thing
I liked their romantic potential a lot and can't wait for them to reunite in the next one.
other notes is that I was hoping alissa would work with teil and the ansorans pretty much as soon as or at least 20% into the story and thought that's where the book was going to go which I would have preferred to build up more of their chemistry especially becausw of the whole kidnapping thing in the first 20% already set up a case for this but this didn't happen and the idea was that there's potential links between her and all three love interests but this was unnecessary because the other two were unserious candidates in the context
anyway I'm hoping for a possible subplot love story for garret and tari, I see the vision: they only hung out as children bc of Alissa and now they're going to be the only ones left in the kingdom who would show compassion for each other, especially after Garret is probably going to be beaten to death if not Outcast by the hunters for betraying them by letting Alissa go. Then Tari can look after him which leads to her finding her purpose in healing/helping people - they're so important to me and they're not even a thing but the potential is there, ex hunter x healer/governer/leader of country🤌
the main plot was interesting with the hunters and wielders clash and dynamics of them hunting down magic users. it's kinda reminiscent of shadow and bone (grisha vs non grisha and the whole darkling committing genocide thing) especially with the final twist of Erik being similar in his motivations and kidnapping her then holding hostage until she agrees to what he wants but she thankfully escapes. I loved this direction of the story.
the romances- so alissa had chemistry with everyone and I enjoyed the writing for all three dynamics she had with teil, garret and even erik individually
it's clear the endgame is teil and there's no one i feel stronger for her to end up with which works for their tension and romance that is fleshed out well enough for now. as a romantasy I'm expecting this focus will kick into gear in the sequel as in this one, I'd say is more fantasy orientated at the moment - not a bad thing
I liked their romantic potential a lot and can't wait for them to reunite in the next one.
other notes is that I was hoping alissa would work with teil and the ansorans pretty much as soon as or at least 20% into the story and thought that's where the book was going to go which I would have preferred to build up more of their chemistry especially becausw of the whole kidnapping thing in the first 20% already set up a case for this but this didn't happen and the idea was that there's potential links between her and all three love interests but this was unnecessary because the other two were unserious candidates in the context
anyway I'm hoping for a possible subplot love story for garret and tari, I see the vision: they only hung out as children bc of Alissa and now they're going to be the only ones left in the kingdom who would show compassion for each other, especially after Garret is probably going to be beaten to death if not Outcast by the hunters for betraying them by letting Alissa go. Then Tari can look after him which leads to her finding her purpose in healing/helping people - they're so important to me and they're not even a thing but the potential is there, ex hunter x healer/governer/leader of country🤌