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A review by mimiluvsbooks
Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
I have extremely mixed emotions about this book. I am going to start with the pros
I love Armentrout's writing, I initially DEEPLY enjoyed the From Blood and Ash series as well as this series. Both series started out super duper strong and I was feral for probably the first two books in both series. Unfortunaetly I hated a lot about this book so that's it for pros
Now time for the cons
I listened to this as an audiobook which was 37 hours long which is probably the longest audiobook I have listened to. I tried listening to it in August when it first came out but I found it so insufferable and droning that I had to stop. There's at least 15 hours of pure NONESENSE that I don't remember let alone care about. There were so many spicy scenes that was probably a good 35% of the book and I just didn't care anymore so I just started skipping over them! There was info dumping and monologues that droned on and on and I got really sick of Sera towards the end she got so annoying and whiny to me.
This series makes me sad becuase I love the plotline and the world but I think that there is just so much filler stuff that happens like this book DOES NOT need to be 770 pages, 400-500 would be much more appropriate and a much more enjoyable read. And unfortunately I feel like the same thing happened in the From Blood and Ash series, there's too much info dumping, monologues, and unnecessary filler junk.
However I do love the prophecy and will finish the From Blood and Ash series because I am way too deep to give up on it even though both series now 100% infuriate me
I love Armentrout's writing, I initially DEEPLY enjoyed the From Blood and Ash series as well as this series. Both series started out super duper strong and I was feral for probably the first two books in both series. Unfortunaetly I hated a lot about this book so that's it for pros
Now time for the cons
I listened to this as an audiobook which was 37 hours long which is probably the longest audiobook I have listened to. I tried listening to it in August when it first came out but I found it so insufferable and droning that I had to stop. There's at least 15 hours of pure NONESENSE that I don't remember let alone care about. There were so many spicy scenes that was probably a good 35% of the book and I just didn't care anymore so I just started skipping over them! There was info dumping and monologues that droned on and on and I got really sick of Sera towards the end she got so annoying and whiny to me.
This series makes me sad becuase I love the plotline and the world but I think that there is just so much filler stuff that happens like this book DOES NOT need to be 770 pages, 400-500 would be much more appropriate and a much more enjoyable read. And unfortunately I feel like the same thing happened in the From Blood and Ash series, there's too much info dumping, monologues, and unnecessary filler junk.
However I do love the prophecy and will finish the From Blood and Ash series because I am way too deep to give up on it even though both series now 100% infuriate me