kateships's reviews
158 reviews

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I haven’t read a book in a while that made my jaw drop and left me speechless once I finished it. This is one of those. 

This had me STRESSED. I loved it. 

The only negative is that the next book is still being completed by the author 😅

This was intense and graphic and I found the vampires a super interesting way to write an abusive poly relationship. 
I loved it until the epilogue part. I wish it ended before that with

them escaping.

The epilogue just felt so out of place even though it was nice that

they get a happy ending.

 

I read this in a day, I am obsessed. 

I loved this one more than the first, which ???

The characters I loved in the first are still part of it and important, the side characters that are now also mains are lovely and have such a good arc. The continuation of the magic and the conflict and relationships is so good. Also the use of POVs was a great touch. 

I just wish we could stay here longer, but the duology is immaculate and packed in just the right amount of story. 

I hope this author keeps making her art.

I barely know what to say, I loved this. 

The setting is great and the magic system is so different and interesting. 

I enjoyed everything - the MCs and their relationship, the side characters, the main conflict at the heart of the story, the magic, the vibes. This made me feeeeel. 

I immediately bought the second book, I couldn’t wait. 

This was so fun and sweet. The princess bride inspiration is visible, but it’s clearly not a retelling or too derivative. 

The world he creates is so cool, I love the idea of the spores. Tress is fun and spunky and I loved everyone we met for their own unique reasons. 

I think I enjoyed this. Honestly I don’t know how to feel about it. Like, it pulled me in and I loved how the whole time you were trying to figure out how it all ties together. There was an overarching sense of eeriness that you couldn’t totally place, but also it’s a mindfuck. The end got confusing but then you finish it and realize the big picture and it all makes sense. 

I do not regret the hours spent on this one but it’s not what I expected somehow. 

This was excellent. It was a bit hard to read with the super unique writing style, I just had to focus on it a bit more than I might usually in order to follow everything.

The story is so original (to me) and cool and I really almost never knew where it was going to go. 

Im not enthralled or enchanted by it, but it really is a fantastic story written so beautifully. 

This was my favorite of the series so far. I do not really like Feyre and thought that her development from 1-3 was unrealistic. This one followed more of Nesta’s journey and moved POVs (which I think this series needs more of). 

The main group was definitely harsh on her, clearly we missed a lot of story where she was terrible to everyone, but they eventually realize that she isn’t going to help herself, so they force her to make a choice. Her fear and trauma and bad mental space was relatable and understandable once she started working through it. And I am SO GLAD we got to actually see her working through it. She found a routine and a purpose, and through that she made connections and found her self-worth. I really did love her journey to be vulnerable, deal with the trauma, and be open to love. 

This book is not without flaws, and the writing is downright cringy at times, but it drew me in and had me in a chokehold for the 24 hours it took to read. The graphic sex scenes were a bit gratuitous for me and not wholly necessary to get the point across. It’s a bit long-winded but I wasn’t bored. The Valkyrie stuff was fun but totally cheesy, and the training bits were more detailed than they needed to be. Also, every-time the author wrote in Nesta reading her “smut” (and called it that) it instantly pulled me out of the story it felt so out of place. 

All in all, its a flawed book, the writing is hit or miss, and the characters outside of Nesta and Cassian are super under-developed, but I thought the story we followed with Nesta going from scared, mean, and traumatized to facing it all and finding a desire for life and love to be realistic and raw and lovely. 

It was fine?

So this one was mostly better than the first two, in my opinion, but it was way too long. There were a lot of parts in the middle where I skimmed more than I might usually (mentally going, "okay move along now"). I enjoyed Feyre in this one a lot, she finally found herself and her strength, but the timeline of it all is so unrealistic to me. Its been about a year since she

crossed the wall to the spring court, so by the end of the book its been less than 2 years and she went from hunting to feed her family, to being traumatized under the mountain and coming out broken and weak and helpless, to then being "saved" by Rhys and with just some reading lessons and training is now the only High Lady and is so powerful and strong and knows how to help with inter-court relations and war?

There needed to be more time that passed in my opinion, and it would have felt more normal considering where she started in book 2. I did really enjoy getting more of her sisters and the other courts. The ending was a bit predictable in the general sense, but there are some plot twists that are great.

I will continue my criticism though that I wish the author would not use "male", "female", and "my mate" so often. "My Mate" in place of just saying their name made me gag a little every time it happened (and it's a lot). 

Even with that all, I am still having a good time and want to know where it goes. Still not in love, but I will carry on!