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Defy the Night
by Brigid Kemmerer
I truly don’t see what all the hype is for this book. I haven’t read much of this genre and this is pretty different from what I usually reach for but it was just OK.
Plot: The idea here is actually pretty cool but I felt like the synopsis is really misleading and we don’t actually get to see the full potential of what the sickness is and what the medicine really does or how it’s distributed. This book for me spent way too much time talking politics and it really doesn’t pay off. I couldn’t care less about the different regions and sectors of what the leaders can do if you can’t even tell me the basics of what’s going on apart from some sectors have a lot of medicine and the poor are dying. Like why tough? Just too much wasn’t explained or was left to be inferred.
Characters: Corrick was probably the only likeable character for me. He basically has to do the grunt work and be the bad guy because that was the role left to him after his parents died. He’s just a kind person that is made to do bad things and his entire story from what I saw in his perspective was kinda sad so I was rooting for him.
Tessa… Lord Tessa, what even is this character? She’s supposed to be an apothecary but honestly she doesn’t really know shit and she learned everything from a book her father used. Ok cool so now she is one of the few people that know how to mix leaves together? She deadass makes tea for the king and everyone is mind blown. Her character also is supposed to seem strong and independent but she is pretty useless until she like has to do something to move the plot forward. As soon as that’s done she goes back to being nothing.
The romantic relationship between these characters is also meh. Don’t read this if you’re hoping for a romance because they are just so hot or cold and not even in a good way.
All in all I thought the book was alright, I’m not sure if I will continue the series but if I can find the book for cheap I’ll pick it up.
Plot: The idea here is actually pretty cool but I felt like the synopsis is really misleading and we don’t actually get to see the full potential of what the sickness is and what the medicine really does or how it’s distributed. This book for me spent way too much time talking politics and it really doesn’t pay off. I couldn’t care less about the different regions and sectors of what the leaders can do if you can’t even tell me the basics of what’s going on apart from some sectors have a lot of medicine and the poor are dying. Like why tough? Just too much wasn’t explained or was left to be inferred.
Characters: Corrick was probably the only likeable character for me. He basically has to do the grunt work and be the bad guy because that was the role left to him after his parents died. He’s just a kind person that is made to do bad things and his entire story from what I saw in his perspective was kinda sad so I was rooting for him.
Tessa… Lord Tessa, what even is this character? She’s supposed to be an apothecary but honestly she doesn’t really know shit and she learned everything from a book her father used. Ok cool so now she is one of the few people that know how to mix leaves together? She deadass makes tea for the king and everyone is mind blown. Her character also is supposed to seem strong and independent but she is pretty useless until she like has to do something to move the plot forward. As soon as that’s done she goes back to being nothing.
The romantic relationship between these characters is also meh. Don’t read this if you’re hoping for a romance because they are just so hot or cold and not even in a good way.
All in all I thought the book was alright, I’m not sure if I will continue the series but if I can find the book for cheap I’ll pick it up.