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A review by shanayaareads
When Heroes Fall by Giana Darling
5.0
I have to eat my words.
Going into this book, over a month ago, I was absolutely annoyed. I hated Elena so much it was damn near painful to read this book. I stopped four chapters in and truly considered nit finishing it because I disliked who she was so completely.
But I powered through today and my god, am I glad I did. I absolutely adore this girl now. There are still a lot of things I don’t like about the way she is, but I understand her a lot more now. I gained a deeper appreciation for who she is the more I read.
And Dante? He was the lifeline that kept me reading the first fifteen or so chapters. I’ve adored a great many male MC’s in books, but this man, all dark and looming and so contradictory with his softness, I absolutely adore him. Delving into his head, his psyche made me love him even more than I did when I met him in Enthralled.
Together, Dante and Elena are neither heroes nor villains but you can’t help but loving them anyways. Darkness and misdeeds, flaws and all. I truly have to eat my words because I love them so much together, nothing can compare. Elena might be my favorite of the Lombardi girls at this point and I am so mad at myself for not having given her a chance to prove herself. Seeing Elena shed her constant need for judgment and self inflation, seeing her embrace the fact that things are not black and white and neither are people, was utterly satisfying.
And knowing that she was so willing to sacrifice and lose the life that she’d worked so hard to build for herself, to lose the identity she had tried to craft to hide her truth and embracing all that she is, the good and the bad—I have no words. By the end of the book, she was an entirely new person and one that I could actually get behind. I’m just upset with myself for not allowing myself to experience this sooner.
Going into this book, over a month ago, I was absolutely annoyed. I hated Elena so much it was damn near painful to read this book. I stopped four chapters in and truly considered nit finishing it because I disliked who she was so completely.
But I powered through today and my god, am I glad I did. I absolutely adore this girl now. There are still a lot of things I don’t like about the way she is, but I understand her a lot more now. I gained a deeper appreciation for who she is the more I read.
And Dante? He was the lifeline that kept me reading the first fifteen or so chapters. I’ve adored a great many male MC’s in books, but this man, all dark and looming and so contradictory with his softness, I absolutely adore him. Delving into his head, his psyche made me love him even more than I did when I met him in Enthralled.
Together, Dante and Elena are neither heroes nor villains but you can’t help but loving them anyways. Darkness and misdeeds, flaws and all. I truly have to eat my words because I love them so much together, nothing can compare. Elena might be my favorite of the Lombardi girls at this point and I am so mad at myself for not having given her a chance to prove herself. Seeing Elena shed her constant need for judgment and self inflation, seeing her embrace the fact that things are not black and white and neither are people, was utterly satisfying.
And knowing that she was so willing to sacrifice and lose the life that she’d worked so hard to build for herself, to lose the identity she had tried to craft to hide her truth and embracing all that she is, the good and the bad—I have no words. By the end of the book, she was an entirely new person and one that I could actually get behind. I’m just upset with myself for not allowing myself to experience this sooner.