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A review by literaryweaponry
A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
~Quick review~
This review has nothing to do with the grammatical mistakes currently in the ebook as of this writing. I understand that these can be corrected later and have no problem ignoring them for the sake of this review.
There will be spoilers for the first two books of the series in this review.
This book was boring. In the first two books, A Touch of Darkness and A Touch of Ruin, we had a clear plot progression and character development. Persephone starts as this innocent little dove trying to figure out who she is when out from her mother's wing and begins to discover her own power and desires and to act upon them. At the end of Ruin the relationship has progressed and the characters have opened up and we have a reasonably good idea of how the conflict will progress.
Then everything comes to a grinding halt.
Persephone in this book has returned to bumbling around trying to figure herself out, Hades becomes little more than plot fodder, and the entire plot screeches to a stop as we rehash the same stories and bullet points just with different characters.
It was so incredibly dull. Even the sexual scenes had lost their interest. Same thing, different page except now we have a soft boy Hades employing emotional manipulation. No thanks.
I was incredibly let down by this story. The only true plot progression happened within the last couple chapters of the book. Every thing else was just monotonous nonsense.
Not a good installment to the series. I'll probably still give the next book a shot though.
This review has nothing to do with the grammatical mistakes currently in the ebook as of this writing. I understand that these can be corrected later and have no problem ignoring them for the sake of this review.
There will be spoilers for the first two books of the series in this review.
This book was boring. In the first two books, A Touch of Darkness and A Touch of Ruin, we had a clear plot progression and character development. Persephone starts as this innocent little dove trying to figure out who she is when out from her mother's wing and begins to discover her own power and desires and to act upon them. At the end of Ruin the relationship has progressed and the characters have opened up and we have a reasonably good idea of how the conflict will progress.
Then everything comes to a grinding halt.
Persephone in this book has returned to bumbling around trying to figure herself out, Hades becomes little more than plot fodder, and the entire plot screeches to a stop as we rehash the same stories and bullet points just with different characters.
It was so incredibly dull. Even the sexual scenes had lost their interest. Same thing, different page except now we have a soft boy Hades employing emotional manipulation. No thanks.
I was incredibly let down by this story. The only true plot progression happened within the last couple chapters of the book. Every thing else was just monotonous nonsense.
Not a good installment to the series. I'll probably still give the next book a shot though.