I really liked this one. I was pleasantly surprised. Why is no one else talking about this book? The Magic system was very unique, but I definitely needed to be fleshed out more. I also really liked the aspect of the blood vow.
Shadow was definitely a difficult character for me to enjoy. She’s very whiny and I feel like she just being rebellious to be rebellious. I also thought the whole scheme to rescue Cal from prison was very unnecessary. She was already suppose to be at the place so why didn’t she just talk to the queen and be like ‘this dude is innocent’? I really liked the romance, though it was pretty well paced. It went to ‘I love you’ way to suddenly though!
I don’t have anything against this book. I started it and then put it down to read a hold from Libby. I moved on and just have no interest in finishing it.
“I wish I could travel backward in time and tell Monty of two years ago, lying on the lawn of his father's house with a black eye and a dawning realization he was falling in love with his best friend, that someday he'd be here”✨
This quote resonates with me so much. I wish I could go back and tell my suicidal 14 year old self that things would get better and that life is worth living.
DNF but still counting for my reading challenges because I read more than half
I had a lot of struggles with this series. My main issue was the characters. They where just so flat, and had no backstories. I feel I was waiting for more explaining through the series and I never got it. It never explains why Alina’s is an orphan, her parents are never even really mentioned. You’d think you at least want to find out who your parents where even if you where young when they died.
The magic system was also very confusing and the world was never really developed. There where a lot of Russian words that I didn’t know what they meant and the author just assumed that I would figure if out, I did get a general idea but I was still confused.
The beginnings of all the books in this trilogy are exiting and fast paced then the middle it feels like nothing happens for 200 pages, all the characters are just hanging out, and not really doing relevant to the plot.
Ruin and Rising was definitely my favorite book in the trilogy, but I still made me feeling like a lot of my questions where never answered.
It took me a while to get into this book but one I did I was able to read it pretty fast. I enjoyed the last 100 pages and the ending the most. 3.5
DNF 2018
This is the first book that I’ve ever chosen to read that I have disliked so much that I couldn’t finish it. I got to page 134 and couldn’t take it anymore. This book had such good potential. The plot sounded amazing— a bisexual necromancer hell yah! But the writing was dry and boring, the world building was confusing and poorly done.
The characters where flat and I had no connection to them what so ever. I didn’t understand the purpose of any of the main characters. there where so many and they were poorly introduced. People just started appearing out of thin air. Where did that person come from? Who knows. They where just suddenly in the sene for no reason.
I did not like Odessa at all. She was so annoying. The thing that really push me off the edge is that Evander’s mom somehow wasn’t aware that they where in love?! It makes no sense. Why was she living with them then?! I wasn’t even aware that she didn’t know until 100 pages in. Why did the author wait so long to tell us this? I don’t know. They where so certain that they couldn’t get married that they never even told his mom that they where dating? Ahhhhhhh
It seemed like this book was suppose to be action packed. In reality nothing happens. Even where there a few fight sense they are so dry that I was bored and didn’t care. Most of the book is the characters just talking and Odessa complaining, and then them randomly going to parties.
*annoyed screaming*
THE FUCK
TW: Suicide, extreme famine, emotional abuse, violence/themes of war, racism