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A review by maggieha
Betrayals by Lili St. Crow
1.0
[b:Betrayals|6371117|Betrayals (Strange Angels, #2)|Lili St. Crow|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1331244872s/6371117.jpg|6558709] did what its title suggests. Honestly, I expected much more and it just left me disappointed.
It felt like all the character had a pretty hard case of OOC plague and I can't say I liked any of them here. Dru entirely lost her badassery and the tough girl from the first book disappeared and became a total weakling. It felt like she had an identity crisis actually, which very well may have been true. (The only thing I thought was interestingly written at the beginning was the portrayal of depression/PTSD of her character). Graves wasn't the shy sweet guy from [b:Strange Angels|6006518|Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)|Lili St. Crow|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1331244487s/6006518.jpg|6181610] anymore and I felt like his change was way too fast and way too much. And as for Christoph, I lean toward hatred of his character more now.
There is also only one other main female character aside for the heroine and let me tell you, she's not portrayed in the best light. The first book lacked any other female character whatsoever and now it's not much better either.
The writing style was as annoying as in the first book, Dru had still too much of her internal monologues and for someone who thought herself clever, she actually suffered TSTL syndrome most of the time. The plot was way slower and less messy than in the first book, but again the world building wasn't explained. (And I gave up all hope that the author made the world clearer and more pronounced in the sequels).
I guess I will be continuing this series to see what I'll think of it overall, but by now I don't really recommend this book, except for big PNR fans. There's just nothing that makes this series distinctive from so many other books from this genre.
It felt like all the character had a pretty hard case of OOC plague and I can't say I liked any of them here. Dru entirely lost her badassery and the tough girl from the first book disappeared and became a total weakling. It felt like she had an identity crisis actually, which very well may have been true. (The only thing I thought was interestingly written at the beginning was the portrayal of depression/PTSD of her character). Graves wasn't the shy sweet guy from [b:Strange Angels|6006518|Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)|Lili St. Crow|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1331244487s/6006518.jpg|6181610] anymore and I felt like his change was way too fast and way too much. And as for Christoph, I lean toward hatred of his character more now.
There is also only one other main female character aside for the heroine and let me tell you, she's not portrayed in the best light. The first book lacked any other female character whatsoever and now it's not much better either.
The writing style was as annoying as in the first book, Dru had still too much of her internal monologues and for someone who thought herself clever, she actually suffered TSTL syndrome most of the time. The plot was way slower and less messy than in the first book, but again the world building wasn't explained. (And I gave up all hope that the author made the world clearer and more pronounced in the sequels).
I guess I will be continuing this series to see what I'll think of it overall, but by now I don't really recommend this book, except for big PNR fans. There's just nothing that makes this series distinctive from so many other books from this genre.