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The Hurricane Wars
by Thea Guanzon
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I felt several times during the reading of this book, something feels off, or different about the reading experience. It didn’t grab me right away - very dense world building and complicated fantasy names of people and places in the first few pages. I am usually quite turned off by that, but pushing through almost always pays off. I still can’t really put my finger on it but here are some things I did love:
1) this is a true “enemies to lovers.” This is almost always what I want when a book is billed this way. It feeds into the trope believably and over a good amount of time to really build that tension between the two characters.
2) the amount of time spent in the story vs the “X weeks/months later” felt so refreshing? I don’t know how else to put it. The story didn’t linger in places just to satisfy the plot moving forward, and it didn’t rush through important events. I wasn’t stressed out wondering what was gonna happen - all of the tension was between the two main characters, which frankly I loved. You really get a sense of a lived in world this way and it felt really natural.
3) the hurricane wars themselves - while you only really see the tail end of this conflict, there is no doubt that these wars ravaged the populace. I almost like this better, seeing the snippets of different battles without all the fuss of explaining a gruesome battle montage - besides the conflicts where our two main characters meet in battle. The absence of montages in general was so nice.
4) the writing!!! I don’t want to say flowery because that feels disingenuous but it’s the first word that comes to mind. Lush, maybe. The writing was beautiful, and different, and unexpected. I’m not sure if there will be a second book but I am hoping there will be - this was a great read and I look forward to anything else this author writes.
1) this is a true “enemies to lovers.” This is almost always what I want when a book is billed this way. It feeds into the trope believably and over a good amount of time to really build that tension between the two characters.
2) the amount of time spent in the story vs the “X weeks/months later” felt so refreshing? I don’t know how else to put it. The story didn’t linger in places just to satisfy the plot moving forward, and it didn’t rush through important events. I wasn’t stressed out wondering what was gonna happen - all of the tension was between the two main characters, which frankly I loved. You really get a sense of a lived in world this way and it felt really natural.
3) the hurricane wars themselves - while you only really see the tail end of this conflict, there is no doubt that these wars ravaged the populace. I almost like this better, seeing the snippets of different battles without all the fuss of explaining a gruesome battle montage - besides the conflicts where our two main characters meet in battle. The absence of montages in general was so nice.
4) the writing!!! I don’t want to say flowery because that feels disingenuous but it’s the first word that comes to mind. Lush, maybe. The writing was beautiful, and different, and unexpected. I’m not sure if there will be a second book but I am hoping there will be - this was a great read and I look forward to anything else this author writes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War
I felt several times during the reading of this book, something feels off, or different about the reading experience. It didn’t grab me right away - very dense world building and complicated fantasy names of people and places in the first few pages. I am usually quite turned off by that, but pushing through almost always pays off. I still can’t really put my finger on it but here are some things I did love:
1) this is a true “enemies to lovers.” This is almost always what I want when a book is billed this way. It feeds into the trope believably and over a good amount of time to really build that tension between the two characters.
2) the amount of time spent in the story vs the “X weeks/months later” felt so refreshing? I don’t know how else to put it. The story didn’t linger in places just to satisfy the plot moving forward, and it didn’t rush through important events. I wasn’t stressed out wondering what was gonna happen - all of the tension was between the two main characters, which frankly I loved. You really get a sense of a lived in world this way and it felt really natural.
3) the hurricane wars themselves - while you only really see the tail end of this conflict, there is no doubt that these wars ravaged the populace. I almost like this better, seeing the snippets of different battles without all the fuss of explaining a gruesome battle montage - besides the conflicts where our two main characters meet in battle. The absence of montages in general was so nice.
4) the writing!!! I don’t want to say flowery because that feels disingenuous but it’s the first word that comes to mind. Lush, maybe. The writing was beautiful, and different, and unexpected. I’m not sure if there will be a second book but I am hoping there will be - this was a great read and I look forward any anything else this author writes.