sleepylittlecat 's review for:

Rose in Chains by Julie Soto

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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── .✦ When the sun shines at night, he who will bring an end to war on this land shall be victorious.
He shall be an heir, twice over, and a rightful sovereign over the continent.

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˗ˏˋ˗ˏ  3.5 🌟     ●  0.5 🌶

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Out of the two books of this type I've read this year, this one falls disappointingly low. I've wanted to indulge in this for a while, and, I just was bored. 

It dragged far too much. How it's meant to be a trilogy with that pacing, I don't know. I'm just glad it's over to be honest. 

The Hearst family was fairly well written, if not morally grey in a form that I liked. Toven was the catalyst, I feel, and I knew from the start that he would have some form of affection for Briony. 

…Who probably could have been written better. But, i won't judge too hard. She was positioned in a way that she could only do so much; act in such and such a way. 

So I'll forgive that. Probably will not continue the series, however.