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She wrote the word "behoove" too many times. I hate it.
This book confused me more than a physics theory. I do not understand what the characters are. Fae? Vampires? Hybrids? What?
I went and set my heart for Raiden as duh, the title says so. I thought the book would be about her and the Raiden fixing their fucked up relationship.
But noooo! Of course there has to be some sort of mating as fae is involved. I'm disappointed.
I WAS ROOTING FOR RAIDEN AS HE HAS MORE CHEMISTRY WITH HER THAN ZAD. Although, Zad deserved a better ending. So does Raiden.
The fighting... skipped so many pages that I do not get it. There was so much info missing.
Audra is an MC you will love! Such a cold-hearted queen that also knows and sees the rights and wrongs.
This book can be compared to a physics class. You'll get it at some points but not all. You'll finish the class with a passing grade but not with satisfaction if physics isn't your thing. ☠
This book confused me more than a physics theory. I do not understand what the characters are. Fae? Vampires? Hybrids? What?
I went and set my heart for Raiden as duh, the title says so. I thought the book would be about her and the Raiden fixing their fucked up relationship.
But noooo! Of course there has to be some sort of mating as fae is involved. I'm disappointed.
I WAS ROOTING FOR RAIDEN AS HE HAS MORE CHEMISTRY WITH HER THAN ZAD. Although, Zad deserved a better ending. So does Raiden.
The fighting... skipped so many pages that I do not get it. There was so much info missing.
Audra is an MC you will love! Such a cold-hearted queen that also knows and sees the rights and wrongs.
This book can be compared to a physics class. You'll get it at some points but not all. You'll finish the class with a passing grade but not with satisfaction if physics isn't your thing. ☠
Eldas turns to face me, looking down his blade-like nose. His face is so severe that I wonder strangely if it would be painful to kiss. I already know his words are sharper than glass. Would his tongue match?
This is my first book from this author and I just loved it. The world building and the details were amazing. The king being an elf and not a fae, for once, was a great change. I was watching The Crown in between my reads and my reading voice was accented. Made the experience even better, I think. Haha.
Eldas, a pretty name, a supposedly cold ruler of Midscape - a world away from what Luella used to live in. Their love story was magically written that I wished this was a series.
Both Luella and Eldas exceeded my expectation when it comes to the main characters. I find that either one or both are annoying in most books but in here, they just balanced each other out so perfectly.
I can't wait for more books in this world.
I want her summers as desperately as I need her winters. - King Eldas.
This is my first book from this author and I just loved it. The world building and the details were amazing. The king being an elf and not a fae, for once, was a great change. I was watching The Crown in between my reads and my reading voice was accented. Made the experience even better, I think. Haha.
Eldas, a pretty name, a supposedly cold ruler of Midscape - a world away from what Luella used to live in. Their love story was magically written that I wished this was a series.
Both Luella and Eldas exceeded my expectation when it comes to the main characters. I find that either one or both are annoying in most books but in here, they just balanced each other out so perfectly.
I can't wait for more books in this world.
I want her summers as desperately as I need her winters. - King Eldas.
Déjà vu. Déjà su. Déjà vécu
I finished this book an hour ago and I let my feelings brew before coming here to write my thoughts.
Addie. Addie. Addie.
This book is heartbreaking but tasking to read.
Addie LaRue, a woman deemed stubborn and lost for her century, made a deal with the wrong god. Consequences weren't of thought and she just agreed. To live in freedom forever, but to live in such - she will also live to be forgotten. As memories are binding. She would then be visited by the devil in the anniversary of their deal to ask if she's ready to surrender. But Addie is Addie and every time he asks, she says no.
300 years and she's lived-still living- when she meets someone who finally remembers. A hope she found. This is when the heartbreaking begins. My heart started hurting the moment I came upon the chapter we finally get to meet Henry.
Henry, another lost soul. Henry, the person she finally thought would be her salvation. *sigh*
Henry has asked for the truth, her truth, and so she is telling it. In pieces, fragments tucked like bookmarks between the movement of their days.
Henry helps her tell her story as things she writes would fade without mark. Do I call it a love story? No. I do believe she belongs to noone but herself.
This book is called fiction but it's masked as self-help. Many of us are lost and not know what we actually want in life until a chance comes upon us and we take it. Even though we know it might not a constant, the happiness or hope we felt then was what we clinged on to. This is how the book goes. And through the chapters, it helped me realize some things I've done and hope to be doing.
***Lowering my rating after thinking through how hard this was to get through.
I finished this book an hour ago and I let my feelings brew before coming here to write my thoughts.
Addie. Addie. Addie.
This book is heartbreaking but tasking to read.
Addie LaRue, a woman deemed stubborn and lost for her century, made a deal with the wrong god. Consequences weren't of thought and she just agreed. To live in freedom forever, but to live in such - she will also live to be forgotten. As memories are binding. She would then be visited by the devil in the anniversary of their deal to ask if she's ready to surrender. But Addie is Addie and every time he asks, she says no.
300 years and she's lived-still living- when she meets someone who finally remembers. A hope she found. This is when the heartbreaking begins. My heart started hurting the moment I came upon the chapter we finally get to meet Henry.
Henry, another lost soul. Henry, the person she finally thought would be her salvation. *sigh*
Henry has asked for the truth, her truth, and so she is telling it. In pieces, fragments tucked like bookmarks between the movement of their days.
Henry helps her tell her story as things she writes would fade without mark. Do I call it a love story? No. I do believe she belongs to noone but herself.
This book is called fiction but it's masked as self-help. Many of us are lost and not know what we actually want in life until a chance comes upon us and we take it. Even though we know it might not a constant, the happiness or hope we felt then was what we clinged on to. This is how the book goes. And through the chapters, it helped me realize some things I've done and hope to be doing.
***Lowering my rating after thinking through how hard this was to get through.
I have this notion that if I take us back to the starting line, we'll never cross the finish line.
But they did! I love everything CoHo writes. I pre-ordered this without reading the synopsis, even when it arrived.
I, simply, do not know what to feel about it. I got spooked, hurt, and finally happy.
I loved Layla the first time but I kind of lost her in the middle. Willow is just there, and Leeds is somewhat infuriating at some parts.
3.5/5 ❤
But they did! I love everything CoHo writes. I pre-ordered this without reading the synopsis, even when it arrived.
I, simply, do not know what to feel about it. I got spooked, hurt, and finally happy.
I loved Layla the first time but I kind of lost her in the middle. Willow is just there, and Leeds is somewhat infuriating at some parts.
3.5/5 ❤
I do not know what to do with this review. The premise was so promising but the writing? Not so. So much prose and so much metaphors - not very poetic poetic poetic.
Here are some ridiculous quotes I found.
In the absence of human relationships (shouldn't there be a comma here?) I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Juliette is like most YA character in the beginning - weak yet stubborn determined. That whole entire paragraph is annoying. We get it, you were a reader. Like most of us, we turned to books when we don't have much companion.
And we stand like that until I'm too old to remember a world without his warmth. What does that even mean? Is this some "I'm today old" shit?
I try to focus his eyes, grasp his hands, gentle gentle gentle. wouldn't gently gently gentlywork better?
I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing. I still don't get it? The world? Just so bad, man. Most pages in the book are filled with this type of sentence too.
I was just cringing the entire time. Warner saying "I love you" while she was trying to escape kinda annoyed me because how, when and where did this love start?
The "love" between Adam and Juliette is also not it. I just don't feel it.
I was mildly annoyed throughout this book. I will continue on till book 3 if I can because I want to see how she falls "in love" with Warner.
Here are some ridiculous quotes I found.
In the absence of human relationships (shouldn't there be a comma here?) I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Juliette is like most YA character in the beginning - weak yet
And we stand like that until I'm too old to remember a world without his warmth. What does that even mean? Is this some "I'm today old" shit?
I try to focus his eyes, grasp his hands, gentle gentle gentle. wouldn't gently gently gentlywork better?
I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing. I still don't get it? The world? Just so bad, man. Most pages in the book are filled with this type of sentence too.
I was just cringing the entire time. Warner saying "I love you" while she was trying to escape kinda annoyed me because how, when and where did this love start?
The "love" between Adam and Juliette is also not it. I just don't feel it.
I was mildly annoyed throughout this book. I will continue on till book 3 if I can because I want to see how she falls "in love" with Warner.
Could not get into this.
It's so cringey and the writing is so... lacking (? - maybe JLA just isn't for me.) for my taste. I really need to reread FBAA.
I didn't like her WHITE HOT KISS - I don't know why I thought this would have a different style of writing.
It's so cringey and the writing is so... lacking (? - maybe JLA just isn't for me.) for my taste. I really need to reread FBAA.
I didn't like her WHITE HOT KISS - I don't know why I thought this would have a different style of writing.
4.5 Stars
I loved Cardan's character when I read the trilogy. So much so that I bought 3 different editions of this book. I loved the art that was in it. It made the reading experience even better.
I am so happy we got this book to dive deeper into the madness that is Cardan.
Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarch to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.
I wished we got to see more of how they ruled Elfhame. Jude wanting to do a lot and Cardan just sitting there agreeing.
I loved Cardan's character when I read the trilogy. So much so that I bought 3 different editions of this book. I loved the art that was in it. It made the reading experience even better.
I am so happy we got this book to dive deeper into the madness that is Cardan.
Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarch to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.
I wished we got to see more of how they ruled Elfhame. Jude wanting to do a lot and Cardan just sitting there agreeing.
Thank you, Dana Claire for the copy and personally reaching out to me for this copy.
I am not much for aliens, honestly. When I first read the description of the book, I was skeptic because I am not familiar or "assimilated" to this genre.
I was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying it. When I started, I was so confused because of some terminology but it all cleared up moving forward. I started getting into it close to middle and now that I finished - I need to know when I can have the second book. Haha.
I really like the idea of this book and it was very tense as you don't know what's going to happen to Bea and the gang. I was hoping to have more clarity in the next book on the DOAA and even more history on the Ferroans.
Out of all the characters, I adored Grouper and Darla. They brought out colour to a somewhat dull Bea.
Beatrice was thrown in the middle without so much knowledge of what is actually going on and I feel for her. She was very clueless, though, towards Coach Barb. If she only had mentioned the interactions with Cash and the group.
Cash is the leader of the group assigned to protect Bea and the source. Heartbroken after his girlfriend was killed and had her power sourced harvested and into a human that he now had to protect. I was hoping of more background from him as well. I knew they would be love interest but I wished I felt the budding through their interactions. I understand both confused the feelings as Bea only harboring Cash's girlfriend's power source but real feelings towards Bea were mentioned, however I really didn't feel it though.
While reading this, all I could imagine was Twilight. Tasha was Alice - keeps the group grounded. Sam was Rosalie - hated Bea at first but they became bffs. I liked that the book is setup for a bigger reveal and can't wait to see what book two brings.
Thank you again, Dana Claire, for writing this piece. :)
I am not much for aliens, honestly. When I first read the description of the book, I was skeptic because I am not familiar or "assimilated" to this genre.
I was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying it. When I started, I was so confused because of some terminology but it all cleared up moving forward. I started getting into it close to middle and now that I finished - I need to know when I can have the second book. Haha.
I really like the idea of this book and it was very tense as you don't know what's going to happen to Bea and the gang. I was hoping to have more clarity in the next book on the DOAA and even more history on the Ferroans.
Out of all the characters, I adored Grouper and Darla. They brought out colour to a somewhat dull Bea.
Beatrice was thrown in the middle without so much knowledge of what is actually going on and I feel for her. She was very clueless, though, towards Coach Barb. If she only had mentioned the interactions with Cash and the group.
Cash is the leader of the group assigned to protect Bea and the source. Heartbroken after his girlfriend was killed and had her power sourced harvested and into a human that he now had to protect. I was hoping of more background from him as well. I knew they would be love interest but I wished I felt the budding through their interactions. I understand both confused the feelings as Bea only harboring Cash's girlfriend's power source but real feelings towards Bea were mentioned, however I really didn't feel it though.
While reading this, all I could imagine was Twilight. Tasha was Alice - keeps the group grounded. Sam was Rosalie - hated Bea at first but they became bffs. I liked that the book is setup for a bigger reveal and can't wait to see what book two brings.
Thank you again, Dana Claire, for writing this piece. :)