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Bespelled (Bewitched, #2)
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bookshelves: 2024-anticipated-releases, 1-star, annoying-main-characters, disappointing, enemies-to-lovers, fantasy, least-favourite, magic, mystery, na-fantasy, read-in-2024
Apr 29, 2024
bookshelves: 2024-anticipated-releases, 1-star, annoying-main-characters, disappointing, enemies-to-lovers, fantasy, least-favourite, magic, mystery, na-fantasy, read-in-2024
1/5
Thanks to NetGalley and bloom books for the arc.
My review got deleted after 20 minutes of writing. So I’m pissed off.
This book was awful, and a less than stellar sequel to bewitched, which was a favourite of mine last year.
Selene loses all edge she has to her character after her main adversity in book 1 is removed. She is stupid and does foolish things the whole book, never thinks, and acts immature 24/7, never wondering why she keeps getting into awful situations.
Memnon is reduced to just loving Selene and having no personality of his own.
The romance is shitty. Selene has control over Memnon’s will and implies she can control him sexually more than once. This is very non consensual and gross that she would think such a thing, let alone say it. This leads to lots of rather odd smutty scenes where the line between consent and non consent blurs at times because she can make him do whatever anyways.
The plot doesn’t come in until 70% through, by which is goes at a very fast pace to make up for its lack of presence at the beginning. The plot lacked a sense of urgency and had no twists at all.
The character of Kane was very stupid. He tries to get Selene to love him after multiple rejections and always tries to undermine her relationship with Memnon. He is disrespectful and always looking for a way to make her see how bad Memnon is so he can claim her himself.
The cliffhanger is laughably boring. I literally said ‘who cares?’ After reading it. The implications are next to zero and they provide 0 clues as to what a third book could even entail. So Memnon has a company now. Who cares???
All in all, this was a lacklustre sequel that left much to be desired.
Thanks to NetGalley and bloom books for the arc.
My review got deleted after 20 minutes of writing. So I’m pissed off.
This book was awful, and a less than stellar sequel to bewitched, which was a favourite of mine last year.
Selene loses all edge she has to her character after her main adversity in book 1 is removed. She is stupid and does foolish things the whole book, never thinks, and acts immature 24/7, never wondering why she keeps getting into awful situations.
Memnon is reduced to just loving Selene and having no personality of his own.
The romance is shitty. Selene has control over Memnon’s will and implies she can control him sexually more than once. This is very non consensual and gross that she would think such a thing, let alone say it. This leads to lots of rather odd smutty scenes where the line between consent and non consent blurs at times because she can make him do whatever anyways.
The plot doesn’t come in until 70% through, by which is goes at a very fast pace to make up for its lack of presence at the beginning. The plot lacked a sense of urgency and had no twists at all.
The character of Kane was very stupid. He tries to get Selene to love him after multiple rejections and always tries to undermine her relationship with Memnon. He is disrespectful and always looking for a way to make her see how bad Memnon is so he can claim her himself.
The cliffhanger is laughably boring. I literally said ‘who cares?’ After reading it. The implications are next to zero and they provide 0 clues as to what a third book could even entail. So Memnon has a company now. Who cares???
All in all, this was a lacklustre sequel that left much to be desired.
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Reading Progress
August 23, 2023
– Shelved
August 23, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
August 23, 2023
– Shelved as:
2024-anticipated-releases
April 27, 2024
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Started Reading
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
enemies-to-lovers
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
disappointing
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
annoying-main-characters
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
1-star
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
na-fantasy
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
mystery
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
magic
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
least-favourite
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
fantasy
April 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
read-in-2024
April 29, 2024
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