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azizadarl 's review for:
A Promise of Fire
by Amanda Bouchet
It’s okay.
I’ve read some other reviews and I understand that a lot of readers have a problem with the VERY dubious consent that happens and while I totally understand that, it wasn’t an issue for me. That being said TW: dubious consent, romanticizing domestic violence, and cutting/self-harm for healing purposes.
My biggest issue is that this book doesn’t commit enough. Cat is supposed to be this tortured anti-hero but I just don’t believe it. Most of her inner musings and actions come across as whiny rather than fueled by past trauma. Her sarcasm is childish and her “evil” is mundane. She has all this power and all this skill with weapons but it’s just not all that believable. She’s a perfect killing machine and she gets snagged by a “magic rope?” Okay…
Griffin is boring. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a big bad boy with violent tendencies and an obsessive streak a mile wide, but he just didn’t do it for me. This is the man that conquered a kingdom in a night? Mkay.
I like the Greek mythology and the magic is well explained enough, but again, it just feels half-way done.
What I did like is that this isn’t a YA fantasy romance. I’m thirty, I don’t want to read about teenagers having sex. There’s at least ten years between Cat and Griffin, but that’s still better than thousands of years like I’ve seen in most fantasy books.
I’m not going to finish the series. I started the second book but I find myself rolling my eyes and I’m only three chapters in so that’s a DNF for me.
I’ve read some other reviews and I understand that a lot of readers have a problem with the VERY dubious consent that happens and while I totally understand that, it wasn’t an issue for me. That being said TW: dubious consent, romanticizing domestic violence, and cutting/self-harm for healing purposes.
My biggest issue is that this book doesn’t commit enough. Cat is supposed to be this tortured anti-hero but I just don’t believe it. Most of her inner musings and actions come across as whiny rather than fueled by past trauma. Her sarcasm is childish and her “evil” is mundane. She has all this power and all this skill with weapons but it’s just not all that believable. She’s a perfect killing machine and she gets snagged by a “magic rope?” Okay…
Griffin is boring. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a big bad boy with violent tendencies and an obsessive streak a mile wide, but he just didn’t do it for me. This is the man that conquered a kingdom in a night? Mkay.
I like the Greek mythology and the magic is well explained enough, but again, it just feels half-way done.
What I did like is that this isn’t a YA fantasy romance. I’m thirty, I don’t want to read about teenagers having sex. There’s at least ten years between Cat and Griffin, but that’s still better than thousands of years like I’ve seen in most fantasy books.
I’m not going to finish the series. I started the second book but I find myself rolling my eyes and I’m only three chapters in so that’s a DNF for me.