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A review by slimcakeyreads
Balkan Magic by Emigh Cannaday
1.0
I wanted to like this book so much that I am actually sad at the possibilities and options this author squandered. The premise is good, the descriptions and world building are decent, but all the characters are assholes ESPECIALLY the two main characters.
Usually, when I read, I can’t wait to get home and get back to my favorite chair and my latest book. I first realized I hated this book when I got to my chair-time and I chose to watch reruns of The Vampire Diaries on Netflix rather than read.
Annika has literally NO redeeming qualities. There is nothing likable about her. She drinks, smokes, picks fights with elves in a bar when they have all been so gracious to her and she is a stranger in their land. She is mouthy and pushy and VERY immature even for 25.
Her “love interest” is just as bad, though I would take him over her any day. He is equally immature but he is supposedly 300 years old WTF?
Portals to the outside world are closing for some unknown reason and she is supposedly devastated and desperate to get home.......aaaaaand yet no one actually does shit to figure out what the hell is happening. Instead they plan and have a weird birthday party for the first 60 percent of the book. One second Annika is crying into her beer about her poor family, the next she is trying to bone some strange elf on the floor of a music room in a house that she is a GUEST in.....not to slut shame, but have some class.
I have to be honest I am only about 70 percent through this book and I have read some folks saying there is gratuitous (and possibly light BDSM) sex in this book but other than some awkwardly weird foreplay (honey pot and nectar gross) that got interrupted the only other “sex” I have come across was extremely vague and weird.
All this supposed build up and then suddenly she is like “let’s have sex” and he says “okay” and the author basically writes: then they had sex.
No passion, no buildup, not even any description...I’m not a perv that reads these books just for the hot parts but I honestly feel weird that their first time getting it on wasn’t even in the book. I feel strangely gypped. I need to reassess my life now.
All in all, I want to find the artist that did the covers to this series of books because that person owes me restitution for the time I wasted on this book. The cover art is so gorgeous and alluring that I expected so much more.
Usually, when I read, I can’t wait to get home and get back to my favorite chair and my latest book. I first realized I hated this book when I got to my chair-time and I chose to watch reruns of The Vampire Diaries on Netflix rather than read.
Annika has literally NO redeeming qualities. There is nothing likable about her. She drinks, smokes, picks fights with elves in a bar when they have all been so gracious to her and she is a stranger in their land. She is mouthy and pushy and VERY immature even for 25.
Her “love interest” is just as bad, though I would take him over her any day. He is equally immature but he is supposedly 300 years old WTF?
Portals to the outside world are closing for some unknown reason and she is supposedly devastated and desperate to get home.......aaaaaand yet no one actually does shit to figure out what the hell is happening. Instead they plan and have a weird birthday party for the first 60 percent of the book. One second Annika is crying into her beer about her poor family, the next she is trying to bone some strange elf on the floor of a music room in a house that she is a GUEST in.....not to slut shame, but have some class.
I have to be honest I am only about 70 percent through this book and I have read some folks saying there is gratuitous (and possibly light BDSM) sex in this book but other than some awkwardly weird foreplay (honey pot and nectar gross) that got interrupted the only other “sex” I have come across was extremely vague and weird.
All this supposed build up and then suddenly she is like “let’s have sex” and he says “okay” and the author basically writes: then they had sex.
No passion, no buildup, not even any description...I’m not a perv that reads these books just for the hot parts but I honestly feel weird that their first time getting it on wasn’t even in the book. I feel strangely gypped. I need to reassess my life now.
All in all, I want to find the artist that did the covers to this series of books because that person owes me restitution for the time I wasted on this book. The cover art is so gorgeous and alluring that I expected so much more.