A review by smuttea_matcha
Air Awakens by Elise Kova

3.0

There's nothing special or different about this book on magic that makes it different from others. It has the usual girl with super special magic, the dark mysterious hot guy who likes her and is equally if not more powerful, the other random guys in the story who also have the hots for her, etc. It was an enjoyable and predictable read that I was hoping would come out with more. I don't see what makes Vhalla so special

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other than her wind affinity

, but everyone wanted a piece of her. It was the classic "I'm not pretty, but I have 3 hot guys after me", which is so overdone and not even believable.

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I didn't really understand how we got to the ending. Aldrik carries her injured body to the castle but they take her as prisoner because she tried to kill him?? Why didn't Aldrik just say, "JK, false alarm, I'm in love with her and I'm just concerned for her well-being so I took her home"? It really felt like Kova tried to create this fake drama just to get her to the ending that she wanted, which was for Vhalla to be sent to the war front. It was a sloppy and lazy ending that I didn't care for.

I stand by it being an enjoyable read, but it's nothing eye-opening or something that tries to do something that hasn't been done before.