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House of Pounding Hearts
by Olivia Wildenstein
Holy crow….wasn’t adequately prepared for this one
Um….where do I even begin with this book?!
I am still IN LOVE with the banter between Lore and Fallon. It is the BEST thing about this book.
Both characters tend to piss me off but for very different reasons. Fallon is prideful, stubborn, and naive. Though she gained a lot of life experience from her journey of releasing crows, she simply doesn’t have the knowledge of war or how other people operate to make adequate, informed decisions about anything.
Lore on the other hand has about 700 years of experience and controls, forces, and manipulates Fallon to do what he wants because he thinks he knows what’s best for her safety (to be fair, he probably does). What he doesn’t seem to care about is her need for autonomy, freedom, independence, and to feel like she has a choice since her life has always been decided for her.
Their relationship definitely deepens and the spice gets kicked way up in this book (though I’m not a huge fan of it so a handful of descriptive scenes is WAY more than enough for me). I can appreciate how the scenes were written and Fallon’s running commentary on what was happening had me laughing as well as enjoying this very real, Fallon-like play by play. It’s nice to see that sometimes not everyone knows what they are comfortable with, what they’re doing or expected to do, and that their partner respects them and doesn’t dismiss them.
The ending is something I feel like I should’ve seen coming but I was too engrossed to really think about everything.
Overall this is a well done sequel and I cannot wait for the third installment.
Um….where do I even begin with this book?!
I am still IN LOVE with the banter between Lore and Fallon. It is the BEST thing about this book.
Both characters tend to piss me off but for very different reasons. Fallon is prideful, stubborn, and naive. Though she gained a lot of life experience from her journey of releasing crows, she simply doesn’t have the knowledge of war or how other people operate to make adequate, informed decisions about anything.
Lore on the other hand has about 700 years of experience and controls, forces, and manipulates Fallon to do what he wants because he thinks he knows what’s best for her safety (to be fair, he probably does). What he doesn’t seem to care about is her need for autonomy, freedom, independence, and to feel like she has a choice since her life has always been decided for her.
Their relationship definitely deepens and the spice gets kicked way up in this book (though I’m not a huge fan of it so a handful of descriptive scenes is WAY more than enough for me). I can appreciate how the scenes were written and Fallon’s running commentary on what was happening had me laughing as well as enjoying this very real, Fallon-like play by play. It’s nice to see that sometimes not everyone knows what they are comfortable with, what they’re doing or expected to do, and that their partner respects them and doesn’t dismiss them.
The ending is something I feel like I should’ve seen coming but I was too engrossed to really think about everything.
Overall this is a well done sequel and I cannot wait for the third installment.