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A review by beak3rs
Fear the Flames by Olivia Rose Darling
3.0
3.5 Stars: A great example of, I didn’t say it was good. I said I enjoyed it.
This is one of those books you just kinda have to passenger princess to read. Don’t look into the story or question things too much. If it didn’t have 4 chili peppers on romance.io I would have DNFed but the spice was nice!
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Possible Spoilers Ahead…
What I liked: I loved Cayden and Elowen. The side characters were great. I liked the overall premise of a Princess on a mission to get her dragons back and lead her people. I liked the revenge. The book was very tropey, and I’m not ashamed to say I liked them all. The pacing was great and there was never a point where I was bored.
What I didn’t like: Someone said this reads like a teenager’s Wattpad and that is 100% accurate. Worse though is writing would skip as if describing scenes cut from a movie. Like there was no spatial awareness. A character would be grabbing a towel then next sentence they would be sitting on a couch. And this was done constantly! Other things like it wasn’t always clear who said what, and sometimes a reaction would come before whatever caused that reaction. It was sometimes confusing and hard to follow.
I wish there was more backstory for everything. Why were Caden’s parents in hiding? What was the war between kingdoms over? What did El do those 15 years hiding (she briefly mentioned she was an assassin too?)? What are the other kingdoms doing? Why did the gods leave? Who is capable of magic? Etc. This is where the very little world building comes from. So many questions.
This is one of those books you just kinda have to passenger princess to read. Don’t look into the story or question things too much. If it didn’t have 4 chili peppers on romance.io I would have DNFed but the spice was nice!
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Possible Spoilers Ahead…
What I liked: I loved Cayden and Elowen. The side characters were great. I liked the overall premise of a Princess on a mission to get her dragons back and lead her people. I liked the revenge. The book was very tropey, and I’m not ashamed to say I liked them all. The pacing was great and there was never a point where I was bored.
What I didn’t like: Someone said this reads like a teenager’s Wattpad and that is 100% accurate. Worse though is writing would skip as if describing scenes cut from a movie. Like there was no spatial awareness. A character would be grabbing a towel then next sentence they would be sitting on a couch. And this was done constantly! Other things like it wasn’t always clear who said what, and sometimes a reaction would come before whatever caused that reaction. It was sometimes confusing and hard to follow.
I wish there was more backstory for everything. Why were Caden’s parents in hiding? What was the war between kingdoms over? What did El do those 15 years hiding (she briefly mentioned she was an assassin too?)? What are the other kingdoms doing? Why did the gods leave? Who is capable of magic? Etc. This is where the very little world building comes from. So many questions.