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A review by skyzinnia
Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves
3.5
This book is extremely slow. Nothing too big happens until past page 300 - in a 400-page book - and the main fight doesn't happen until roughly 15 pages before it ends. If you don't like VERY slow-burn romance and SUPER slow-burn action, this is not the book for you.
That being said, it wasn't necessarily bad, just so, so much narrative almost exclusively.
This is Austria-Hungary in the mid-1800s, and I think Eves did an excellent job of staying accurate. Sometimes a bit too accurate, lol. There was a vizsla dog, correct languages, correct places, and correct representation of everything going on there at that time. The only weird part was how much she kisses her cousin. I know it's the 1800s, and they are nobles, and it's how it was, but it was still a little off-putting.
I really enjoyed the fight scenes, however few they were. They were thought out and described well and even that kept up with what weapons they would have had and how they were being used. It made me appreciate the loss and destruction caused by a battle like that.
I also liked how Anna develops. She goes from being worse than useless to what she is today. I look forward to seeing how her and Gábor continue on with their journey and what they'll do next!
That being said, it wasn't necessarily bad, just so, so much narrative almost exclusively.
This is Austria-Hungary in the mid-1800s, and I think Eves did an excellent job of staying accurate. Sometimes a bit too accurate, lol. There was a vizsla dog, correct languages, correct places, and correct representation of everything going on there at that time. The only weird part was how much she kisses her cousin. I know it's the 1800s, and they are nobles, and it's how it was, but it was still a little off-putting.
I really enjoyed the fight scenes, however few they were. They were thought out and described well and even that kept up with what weapons they would have had and how they were being used. It made me appreciate the loss and destruction caused by a battle like that.
I also liked how Anna develops. She goes from being worse than useless to what she is today. I look forward to seeing how her and Gábor continue on with their journey and what they'll do next!