A review by colourful_kenyan
Rival Magic by Ella Summers

3.0

I liked it.. there was little humour thanks to Kai and the Commandos. I liked that their relationship grew in this book and that Sera is coming to terms with it.

All in all felt like it was fast paced and then the author just wanted to finish the book and just gave it up for us to deal with. It felt unsatisfying in away. I kept on hoping for better action but...very little was addressed

Like all over sudden Amara knew that the Grim Reaper had a charm necklace while in the realm.. I mean, we should have seen that addressed during their first meeting or any of the others..like how Sera noticed that he kept it on in every meeting...
Amara was just there to save her life and talk about things that Kai can do with his body and tongue. Amara should have been more pushy about teaching her about magic and the glyphs as well if not in the least about all this Dragon Born thing because Sera knew half of it.
How she saved Kai because Love conquers all..ugh
All the saving and being saved was tedious and it was repetitive.
I kept skimming because too much information and too little action. telling and not showing..There was repeated information about that second dynasty (Kensington?).
the book had potential but it was just...it coould have been better.