ੈ✩‧₊˚ I don't even want to write this review... this is yet another booktok disappointment.
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What a shit show...
I gave this book the benefit ofੈ✩‧₊˚ I don't even want to write this review... this is yet another booktok disappointment.
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What a shit show...
I gave this book the benefit of the doubt for way too long and honestly should have called it quits at the 20% mark. This felt like the author was just stringing sentences together a hoping a plot would form... well unfortunately for me it didn't. This is one of the messiest, info dumpy fantasies I have ever read. And somehow I still could not confidently explain the magic system in this book because the world building was atrocious.
The characters made me want to gouge my eyeballs out. I was waiting and waiting for some originality but instead we got the most generic and non-fleshed out characters you'd find in any fantasy book. Raeve(terrible name) was like Bryce from House of earth and Blood, but all the worst parts of that character and written in an even more irritating way than Bryce herself. And Kaan(also a terrible name) ...
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Not to mention, this book was so slow. I cannot even convey how unbelievably slow the pacing was. Even then end chapters were slow... ugh omg 500+ pages of pure and utter boredom.
The writing was so clunky and difficult to follow. Particularly those first few chapters, they were overly descriptive yet giving me nothing. I felt like I was reading it in a different language. There was absolutely no flow to the writing. I was waiting for it to get better as the reviews say: "it takes time to get into it".. "it's confusing at the start"... "it is slow to begin with"... well it never got better, it got worse. Everything annoyed me, the twists, the non-existent plot, the poorly written characters and the horrifically constructed world and magic system.
Oh and dragons?!?!? Are they in the room with us? Because they were essentially obsolete in this book.
Honestly don't waste your time. I struggle to understand how this would be enjoyable to anyone....more
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