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A review by nicole_reads_everything
Alliance by Annabelle Jacobs
3.0
2.5 rounded up
This was my least favorite in the trilogy, which is always a bummer when you end on a low note. Tonally, this book was a lot darker and grimer than the first two books, in a way that I was totally unprepared for based on what was set up in the first two. Yes, this is a war, but things got a lot more gruesome and depressing than what I felt the author had set us up for--I can handle dark when I'm expecting it, but this didn't feel in line with the first two books and thus took me off guard. I found Nykin to be a lot less likable as well--frequently over-reacting and misunderstanding his husband/not giving him the benefit of the doubt or understanding his position, which was not a cute look. I also thought the resolution, when we got there, felt super rushed leaving the ending ultimately unsatisfying. I found Nykin's weird and continual bondings to various elves to be such a weird plot point that was never addressed, and IDK, there was just a lot of stuff that I didn't like in this series that I was able to ignore in the first book, but by the time I got to book 3 was starting to be annoyed by.
This was my least favorite in the trilogy, which is always a bummer when you end on a low note. Tonally, this book was a lot darker and grimer than the first two books, in a way that I was totally unprepared for based on what was set up in the first two. Yes, this is a war, but things got a lot more gruesome and depressing than what I felt the author had set us up for--I can handle dark when I'm expecting it, but this didn't feel in line with the first two books and thus took me off guard. I found Nykin to be a lot less likable as well--frequently over-reacting and misunderstanding his husband/not giving him the benefit of the doubt or understanding his position, which was not a cute look. I also thought the resolution, when we got there, felt super rushed leaving the ending ultimately unsatisfying. I found Nykin's weird and continual bondings to various elves to be such a weird plot point that was never addressed, and IDK, there was just a lot of stuff that I didn't like in this series that I was able to ignore in the first book, but by the time I got to book 3 was starting to be annoyed by.