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A review by kaelstrom
Storm of Secrets and Sorrow by Melissa K. Roehrich
dark
3.0
All the connections were pretty obvious from the jump. If you haven’t read Lady of Darkness (the previous series), I highly suggest doing that first. Even having read it, I was still trying to keep everything with the gods straight. There’s a lot.
As much as I appreciated this book shifting to bigger conflicts, I was still very uncomfortable with all of the men. There’s an attempt to explain the awful treatment as their world’s culture and even having a certain couple remarking on it being so disgusting, but I still don’t think it was enough. So much of the emotional manipulation is left justified and we get a villain out of it. I’m disappointed it all led to the FMC going full “woman manipulated by men into going crazy and destroying everything” trope.
Honestly, the only person I could root for by the end of this was Katya.
As much as I appreciated this book shifting to bigger conflicts, I was still very uncomfortable with all of the men. There’s an attempt to explain the awful treatment as their world’s culture and even having a certain couple remarking on it being so disgusting, but I still don’t think it was enough. So much of the emotional manipulation is left justified and we get a villain out of it. I’m disappointed it all led to the FMC going full “woman manipulated by men into going crazy and destroying everything” trope.
Honestly, the only person I could root for by the end of this was Katya.