weecha22 's review for:

The Damned by Renée Ahdieh

3.0

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I don’t really know what to think of this series. It’s an interesting setting and world, and the characters are all intriguing—I’m especially curious about Jae and Madeline. But the actual story plot is slow and boring as hell. Like what even happened in this book? I’m also not a fan of multiple povs—I find it almost always to be a lazy way to get info across—and this had like six or seven povs. And I’m not sure half were necessary. Did we really need Emily’s pov on the house burning? We already heard it from Bastian. And her side offered little new info except her uncle turning away and the wolf which easily could have been a line rather than a whole chapter. I just think this series leaned too far into the intrigue and isn’t delivering on the goods. Half the book Celine and Bastian didn’t even interact.