Anne's Reviews > Immortal Reign

I'm glad it's over.
The thing that killed it for me was the emotional immaturity of all the characters. Something big would happen, and they'd make this big inner declaration about how they realize that {insert other character here} is 100% worthy of their loyalty and trust.
And 3 pages later they're freaking out for no good reason, assuming that same character just lied to them, betrayed them, is out to get them, etc. It happened so much that I couldn't take anything any of them said seriously.



The same people kept doing the same things. Again. And again. And again.
There was no personal growth as none of the lessons from previous dumbassery seemed to stick with them for more than a page or two.



And the constant flip-flopping with the love interests. Oh, fucking hell this was an irritation.
I know YA is sort of known for love triangles and angst, but this was a bit much.



However, if you've made it through the other 5 books, you might as well go ahead and finish it out.
I will say that everything gets a resolution, and Rhodes doesn't leave dangling plot threads.
And if you don't think you'd have any issues with the complaints I've listed, this does have great world-building and a cool magic system.



I think if the author had knocked it off with adolescent temper tantrums and allowed the carousel of potential lovers to come to a halt a few books back, I would have been able to recommend this series.
As it is, this will not go on my re-read list.