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A review by gnomepatronus
The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
“Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was.”
I was eager to find out the ending to Lia’s story as the first two books were well written and transported you into well built worlds and an amazing journey. In attempts to write this review I kept going back to the first two books. Overall, the trilogy was great, I loved the buildup, the character development, the love-triangle was not angsty and overly done (best love triangle I have seen in a book in a LONG time), and how the characters stayed true to how they have been building.
The pacing of this book felt off to me. There was a strong start but the middle dragged and the end just felt rushed. There was a bit too much “he said” or a character going into a longer narrative then what seemed natural to give us the backstory or information. There were so much foreshadowing throughout the series with loose ends that felt like they were just burned off instead of given the attention needed to satisfy the ending.
While I was left feeling like I wanted more out of the story, I liked the way it concluded.
I was eager to find out the ending to Lia’s story as the first two books were well written and transported you into well built worlds and an amazing journey. In attempts to write this review I kept going back to the first two books. Overall, the trilogy was great, I loved the buildup, the character development, the love-triangle was not angsty and overly done (best love triangle I have seen in a book in a LONG time), and how the characters stayed true to how they have been building.
The pacing of this book felt off to me. There was a strong start but the middle dragged and the end just felt rushed. There was a bit too much “he said” or a character going into a longer narrative then what seemed natural to give us the backstory or information. There were so much foreshadowing throughout the series with loose ends that felt like they were just burned off instead of given the attention needed to satisfy the ending.
While I was left feeling like I wanted more out of the story, I liked the way it concluded.