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slow-paced

2.5

I didn't really enjoy this book. Nowhere near as much as I enjoyed JS's other books. It was just too slow and not that much happened. I think it could've been shorter tbh.
I liked Atalanta herself, but I don't think that her her story needed to be over 300 pages. I think maybe I would've enjoyed this better if it had been a novella.

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

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5.0

I loved this book. Stunning conclusion this trilogy. 👌
My only issues with this book were

that Dom and Sorasa didn't kiss until the last few pages of the book (but I LOVED that everyone knew that they were in love before they did lol), and that Sigil was barely in this book. It felt like Aveyard didn't know what to do with her and just kinda shuffled her off to the side smh 😔

Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

For the first half of this book I was enjoying the story and was lucking forward to Mr Malcolm getting a taste of his own medicine, so to speak. But unfortunately he didn't. Honestly, he was a very arrogant and annoying MMC and I felt kind of bad for Selina.
I was originally thinking this was going to be a solid 3 stars but it just went downhill. Overall it was simply okay and I probably wouldn't recommend it.

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The Hidden Moon by Jeannie Lin

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adventurous funny mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Loved the performance by Vera Chok! She absolutely nailed it!

Great book, loved it, I thought was a very good sequel.

After how the fire book ended I had no idea where this book would be going. I mean Joan

created a whole new timeline where Nick wasn't the hero, they hadn't met, her family was alive, Aaron didn't know her, and no one else seemed to remember. Or at least they didn't remember everything like she did, Jamie remembers enough and the Lius do too.

I loved that this book went further into how time travel worked in this world and the morality of how monster travel affects Joan throughout the book.

So glad that this book showed even more of the monster world and a bit more of the politics of it as well. I would've loved to have seen more of the Hunts though, like Joan's gran, after all that she went through in the first book to bring them back.

Also... I'm team Aaron. I like Nick, he's a nice guy. But that's kinda it. I feel like the author wants us to like him and root for him and Joan, but I just find them kinda boring. Whereas Joan and Aaron I find so much more fun!

I feel like Aaron must have had a part in Joan's life in the 'true timeline' because Eleanor kept mentioning him. So I think that he's going to have a bigger role to play than he has so far. (This is a major spoiler for the end of the book.) Also, what Nick did by killing the King to save Joan I think changed how she viewed him. She mentions throughout the book that Nick always does what's right, so I think it really shocked her when he killed the king.

I'm really excited to see what the next book will be like. Especially as I think it's the last one.
Each book so far has had a different timeline; book 1 = the king's timeline, book 2 = Joan's timeline, and then book 3 will have Eleanor's twisted timeline. I can't wait to see what that world is going to be like. I'm slightly scared that one of the main character's is going to die in the last book. Or they become erased from the timeline.
I'm really hoping that there'll be a happy ending. Or at least one that is a bit bittersweet if not completely happy.

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