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alicia1566 's review for:
Crown of Chaos
by Amelia Hutchins
Another nine realms book that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat but also frustrated!
Although I still loved this book and it was hard to put it down there were a few things that kept me from giving it a full five stars:
- after book three I really hoped Aria and Knox were going to have more happy times in this installment of the series. This didn't happen.
- I like my fantasy romance with a decent amount of sexy time. This book is filled with teasers that have the reader thinking FINALLY when A and K start to hook up - but for the first 85% of the book these teasers don't go anywhere and just leave Aria frustrated.
- Aria continually makes assumptions that Knox is doing everything to hurt her whenever he isn't around to explain his actions, even when his actions are continually proving the contrary.
- it bares repeating again, there is no sex in this book until chapter freaking 54. 85% of the way through. Then there is one steamy night and that's it. I mean some people may prefer their books this way but I certainly prefer more than one hot night of lust in my romance books.
I finished this book in 1 day of reading pretty much, so it was good... But if there was less needless misinformation angst that would have made it better, and also the ending seemed a little weak. I felt like the end of the last chapter was a bit of an odd way to end it. It probably would have been better left either a little further into the story for a cliffhanger or a little bit shorter where the danger was higher for Aria. Where it left off was kind of odd in my opinion.
Would totally recommend this read, with the caveat that the reader should be ready for a super slow burn that is frustrating.
One last thing I loved - Ember is hilarious, I repeatedly read out her parts to my husband because I thought she was hilarious. Also Arias snark can't be beat. Here is one of my fave little Aria tidbits where she's talking to her mother about who sired her:
"You’re who rode the dick that made me, so why don’t you tell me how I got it? Or did you just ride all the dicks until one spit up enough stuff to make a baby-shake? You got fucked, and then I was ejected from your worthless, poisonous womb. The only one who knows who the fuck got fucked was you, right?"
Although I still loved this book and it was hard to put it down there were a few things that kept me from giving it a full five stars:
- after book three I really hoped Aria and Knox were going to have more happy times in this installment of the series. This didn't happen.
- I like my fantasy romance with a decent amount of sexy time. This book is filled with teasers that have the reader thinking FINALLY when A and K start to hook up - but for the first 85% of the book these teasers don't go anywhere and just leave Aria frustrated.
- Aria continually makes assumptions that Knox is doing everything to hurt her whenever he isn't around to explain his actions, even when his actions are continually proving the contrary.
- it bares repeating again, there is no sex in this book until chapter freaking 54. 85% of the way through. Then there is one steamy night and that's it. I mean some people may prefer their books this way but I certainly prefer more than one hot night of lust in my romance books.
I finished this book in 1 day of reading pretty much, so it was good... But if there was less needless misinformation angst that would have made it better, and also the ending seemed a little weak. I felt like the end of the last chapter was a bit of an odd way to end it. It probably would have been better left either a little further into the story for a cliffhanger or a little bit shorter where the danger was higher for Aria. Where it left off was kind of odd in my opinion.
Would totally recommend this read, with the caveat that the reader should be ready for a super slow burn that is frustrating.
One last thing I loved - Ember is hilarious, I repeatedly read out her parts to my husband because I thought she was hilarious. Also Arias snark can't be beat. Here is one of my fave little Aria tidbits where she's talking to her mother about who sired her:
"You’re who rode the dick that made me, so why don’t you tell me how I got it? Or did you just ride all the dicks until one spit up enough stuff to make a baby-shake? You got fucked, and then I was ejected from your worthless, poisonous womb. The only one who knows who the fuck got fucked was you, right?"