A review by vreyna20_2004
A Strange Hymn by Laura Thalassa

dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Okay so I hated this. I despised this. Usually, the second book is better compared to the first one and yet I couldn’t find anything that I liked about this book compared to the first one. The only reason why I’m reading this damn series is because Audible made it free for a time period. There’s only TWO things that I enjoyed from this book and it’s the shooting stars scene and Temperance giving up her morality to find Callypso. When I listened to that part I audibly awed at that because that’s so sweet then everything goes downhill.

Des is a fae who lives in a different world, right? But he listens to artists like Led Zeppelin and that’s not an issue, it's the fact he is a supernatural being listening to Led Zeppelin that irks me. Then you have Callyspo calling her siren “my siren” for the 13523357835th time. Honestly everything about her annoyed me like how she missed netflix like ma’am there’s important things going on you can live without your shows for a bit. Or her being oblivious to the word bastard and saying she didn’t know what it meant. FACEPALM.  I also hate how dense this girl is like she’s extremely close to figuring things out but doesn’t and the things are so obvious. It felt like the author didn’t try to hide it. Also Des and Callypso are so damn fucking horny that they do it EVERYWHERE!!!! It’s fine when people can’t get enough of each other however they can’t even do anything without fucking like chapter 40 it felt forced to me and the fact that Des said to Callie “you haven’t been satisfied enough” so they keep fucking. I CANT!!!!!

And the writing sucks. Temperance and Callie give off the vibe of “I’m a girl and I can do everything” which is fine but Jesus Christ when you hear that for the 1363487645487th time you just get tired of it. My brain literally sizzled out and blacked out while listening to this damn book. I hate it and hate Callypso.
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