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daniobsessivelyreads's Reviews (830)
I very much enjoyed this first book in the series! The story starts with a young human princess who is not well liked by her father, the King, and her mother, the Queen, more or less ignores her. She's sent to a convent when her first engagement doesn't work out.
Her father forces her into an engagement with the Shadow King for political alliance. The Shadow King takes her home to his people who live in an elaborate underground cave system, but not everything goes as planned.
I immediately started the second book! I couldn't put these books down.
Her father forces her into an engagement with the Shadow King for political alliance. The Shadow King takes her home to his people who live in an elaborate underground cave system, but not everything goes as planned.
I immediately started the second book! I couldn't put these books down.
I loooooved this book. The whitty banter was amazing. The nerdy cute was sooooo cute. Plus the characters have depth and jump off the page. I wish their was a 2nd book to start.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I've heard of it and had it recommended to me several times, but I never got around to reading it. I'm soooo glad that I did.
I've been in a reading rut. I feel like a lot of the books I've read recently are 2-3 star reads. They haven't been "bad" per se. I just haven't been very interested in them.
This book grabbed me a shook me. I was so enthralled by this story. The post-apocalyptic setting with a strong female character who pits herself against one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse? Yes, please! Signed me up!
I highly recommend this book to all romantasy, romance, YA dystopian, and post-apocalyptic readers.
I've been in a reading rut. I feel like a lot of the books I've read recently are 2-3 star reads. They haven't been "bad" per se. I just haven't been very interested in them.
This book grabbed me a shook me. I was so enthralled by this story. The post-apocalyptic setting with a strong female character who pits herself against one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse? Yes, please! Signed me up!
I highly recommend this book to all romantasy, romance, YA dystopian, and post-apocalyptic readers.
This book was not very memorable. It is filling the slot where the women is not small or pretty. She's big and tall and ungainly. So, I very much sympathize with her, but the book seemed clunky.
This book was such a whirlwind! So many twists and turns and secrets revealed that had me on my toes! I can not wait for the next installment to continue Ash and Bellamy's journey. There were so many things and people that separate Ash and Bellamy, and Bellamy's strength sometimes pulls Ash along. I hope in the next book that Ash can start believing in herself and believing that she's deserving of love. I know what that feels like, but it's my personal belief that everyone is deserving of love. Including Ash!
If you love fae/demon/shifter stories, political intrigue, enemies-to-lovers, touch-her-and-you-die, or magic systems
Until the next installment, I will continue to recommend this series to any and all Plated Prisoner series fans, Throne of Glass fans, From Blood and Ash fans, and for anyone who struggles with their mental health or feels undeserving of love. You do deserve love! Life isn't always easy, but it will get better. You just have to keep trying!
If you love fae/demon/shifter stories, political intrigue, enemies-to-lovers, touch-her-and-you-die, or magic systems
Until the next installment, I will continue to recommend this series to any and all Plated Prisoner series fans, Throne of Glass fans, From Blood and Ash fans, and for anyone who struggles with their mental health or feels undeserving of love. You do deserve love! Life isn't always easy, but it will get better. You just have to keep trying!
It took me a minute to get pulled into Deyanira's world. But once I did, I was lost to it. Princess Deyanira has been Death's Maiden since before she could remember. Her first death was taking her mother's life when she was born. From that day onward, her father, the King, has treated her as a weapon and nothing more. Nearly every night she descends to Death's Kingdom in her dreams where he demands that she take a life upon waking. If she refuses, then she is consumed in madness and bloodlust until she is forced to take life until the one named has been killed.
Deyanira has only one friend, and she has comforted her all her life. However, when Deyanira is promised to a young Prince, she finds that not all are as truthful to her as she thought.
This book is definitely for any fans of Caraval and the Kingdom of the Wicked series!
If you love the following tropes...
Deyanira has only one friend, and she has comforted her all her life. However, when Deyanira is promised to a young Prince, she finds that not all are as truthful to her as she thought.
This book is definitely for any fans of Caraval and the Kingdom of the Wicked series!
If you love the following tropes...
This is a short story focused on Ari's experiences in the commonwealth prior to his induction into the Bellators. You really must read the Sword of Seven Sins first to fully understand his perspective in this part of the story.
I was TRANSPORTED by this book! There are a handful of books where I get the feeling that my consciousness, my awareness, my very being has been moved to a different world, and this is one of those books. I could not step away from this story. Hence, why I am reviewing the first book and the first novella. The timelines go hand in hand, honestly. You can't have one without the other.
Eva and Ari live in an extremely restrictive community of people. This world is sometime in the future, where current society as we know it has fallen, and these "commonwealth" communities have sprouted up all over the country. They are fenced in communities where the citizens are "safe" from the outside "barbarians." But it is at the cost of their individual freedom. Each citizen in the commonwealth must always work for the common good, no fraternizing with the opposite sex, all people are born from a lab setting, and nothing is your own everything is shared.
Eva has always questioned her place in this community and cannot make herself be subservient to the rules of the commonwealth, and Ari has always cared too much about his peers to fit the mold required in the commonwealth.
Of course, the outside world is not all they have been told it is. So, I'm very excited to continue on my reading journey.
Eva and Ari live in an extremely restrictive community of people. This world is sometime in the future, where current society as we know it has fallen, and these "commonwealth" communities have sprouted up all over the country. They are fenced in communities where the citizens are "safe" from the outside "barbarians." But it is at the cost of their individual freedom. Each citizen in the commonwealth must always work for the common good, no fraternizing with the opposite sex, all people are born from a lab setting, and nothing is your own everything is shared.
Eva has always questioned her place in this community and cannot make herself be subservient to the rules of the commonwealth, and Ari has always cared too much about his peers to fit the mold required in the commonwealth.
Of course, the outside world is not all they have been told it is. So, I'm very excited to continue on my reading journey.
This series has me by the throat! I think about it when I'm not reading it. ALL. THE. TIME. Ari and Eva continue their journey beyond the grip of the Commonwealth Community that they grew up in. I'm continually fascinated by this futuristic world where many things have changed, but some things stay the same. Such as the politics and the dynamics between peoples has stayed much the same, while the methods of communication and the weapons of war have changed.
In this futuristic version of the United States, people only travel on foot or by horse, but many of the sciences have stayed advanced. Oil and coal production seem to have stopped entirely, but farming and medicinal sciences seem to still be "up-to-date." I love the concept of this world!
I will say the first book in this series had minimal magic while the second book has pulled in may more elements of magic. As this series progresses, I can only image that the world will get bigger and more complex. I'm so excited to keep reading!
In this futuristic version of the United States, people only travel on foot or by horse, but many of the sciences have stayed advanced. Oil and coal production seem to have stopped entirely, but farming and medicinal sciences seem to still be "up-to-date." I love the concept of this world!
I will say the first book in this series had minimal magic while the second book has pulled in may more elements of magic. As this series progresses, I can only image that the world will get bigger and more complex. I'm so excited to keep reading!
I can't get enough of this series. I'm obsessed. While it has a lot of the elements that a lot of other series have, the writing is fresh and engaging. The characters come off the page. They are also witty, smart, and full of banter. The female leads are kick ass! The male leads are bad boys, but support their female counterparts and they're soooo adorable together!
I literally can't wait for the next one.
I literally can't wait for the next one.