A review by lucy_qhuay
Wicked Enchantment by Anya Bast

2.0

This book had a lot of potential, but it came short of it.

After all, Anya Bast’s writing is fairly good and the characters, their relationships and the plot itself could have been truly interesting.

Unfortunately, I found myself bored almost since the moment I started reading this.

Aislinn and Gabriel, the protagonists, should have been fascinating characters, but they weren’t.

Aislinn, for all her power and wit, was too weak to do anything about a life that clearly didn’t make her happy and Gabriel was too caught up in the orders the Shadow King had given him to do or think anything really good.

I also didn’t like how quickly things happened between them, especially considering the fact Aislinn was oh-so tired of men and suspicious of Gabriel’s own motivations.

I mean, you can’t expect me to believe that you meet a guy, immediately dislike him, realizing he is dangerous and untrustworthy and that he surely has a hidden agenda and, mere days after, you’re already ready to jump into his pants.

And this when nothing that may tell you said man is not the big bad wolf of the story happens.
Gabriel certainly hadn’t done anything to convince me he was a good guy, apart from the mild guilt he felt for having to seduce and trick Aislinn into the Dark.

It’s not that difficult to believe that I didn’t felt anything real when he finally understood she was the light to his darkness and that he couldn’t live without her and all that lovey-dovey shebang.

But it wasn’t just with these two I couldn’t connect.

I frankly couldn’t care less about anyone. Not Aislinn’s best friend Bella and her husband, Ronan, not Gabriel’s host, not the Summer Queen or the Shadow King, not the Phaendir, not any other character. They were all boring as hell.

Another thing that made me lose interest in this book that quickly was the fact that I knew from the beginning all that was supposed to be a secret almost until the end.

Spoiler

I knew Aislinn was Unseelie and a powerful necromancer, that she was the daughter of the Shadow King, Gabriel’s true intentions and so on.

As such, nothing surprised me, nothing made me feel that huge thrill when we reach an ‘OMG!’ moment.
If there is one thing I know is that I prefer to hate a book than to be in this gray area where I don’t hate, but I don’t love either.