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Yaaaaaaaaaasssssssss

Revisado: 01-17-22

Ok I’m sorry this was pretty good. I mean it was pretty cheesy but also sooooooo delicious! Who doesn’t love cheese! And who doesn’t love a little mystery, some steam and ***spoilers*** an OP female protagonist who’s gonna light the world on fire! Yaaaaaas! Can’t wait for more!!!!

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Masterfully Narrated - Well layered / Developed characters.

Revisado: 06-10-21

I read a review that said the romance over powered everything. I whole heartedly disagree. The romance was perfect and aching and could have been more pronounced in my opinion.

Anyways - when I first started I thought it would be a boring tale of damsel meets hero but I was so wrong. Character development is layered and if a little abrupt in some places, it’s made up for by plot thickening and the edge of mystery.

The narrator made this book delicious. I love how she voiced each character so differently. I don’t think I would have enjoyed the book as much without the narrator’s skill.

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I’m glad I pushed through. Adult. Romance. Magic. Good plot. Series Long enough to sink your teeth into.

Revisado: 03-27-21

I was in a book hole. And tbh, after a while you can only read so many YA novels before you begin to crave someone appropriately aged taking on the universe. Like let’s please let the 16-18 year olds just be kids! But I digress. Anyways. One reviewer urged powering through the first books to get to the others. And I’m glad I did. Here’s a non spoiler synopsis of the series. You have to power through the first book which is awful but then it’s amazing; adult aged people; smutty trash; and lots of magic and for once a not too shabby gut wrenching plot. Only catch, if you listen to it, the narrator pronounces words wrong 😑 and inconsistently. And the author does this weird and inconsistent fourth wall breaking retrospective shit that you just have to tune out and inexplicably she only does books 2-4. By book four the plot and characters have wrapped around your heart. You just have to brace through some intelligent character development along the way. I am thrilled with this genre. Adult romance. Although this author does seam afraid of anatomical language ... Adult aged people. Magic. I wish the writing would be a smudge less cheesy. But by the fourth book I could weep with these characters and scream at no one to stop their shitty choices. Clearly I was invested. I also like the that the series is long enough to sink your teeth into but not too long that you think you’re just being taken for your money.

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The Narration Was Everything!!!

Revisado: 02-25-21

For a lesser narrator, I wouldn’t have made it through this book. Her story telling, her voices, her accents; delicious!

The story; eh. Kind of like watching lost. I’ve got a good sense of the predictable things that will happen but also it feels like the author is always asking more questions. The answers are never satisfying.

The protagonist is a bit whiny. But I didn’t mind because the narrator. Otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered.

I do like that the protagonist solves her own problems and doesn’t need to be rescued.

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Spoilers Contained: This book was a waste.

Revisado: 07-13-20

Through this entire series I have been waiting for Elorin to come into her power. To stop cowering behind others and find her strength and be an OPed, Broken badass who takes shit from no one.

The exact opposite happens. I never really got her connection to Evan in the first place and she spends so much time talking about him. Then at the last minute we don’t know if her new love interest has survived?!

And SHE STILL ISNT POWERFUL!!! She still cowers and I find that this whole book could have been told in a few chapters. The writing is repetitive and overly explained. And I’m bored and frustrated that i waited this long for this much nothing to happen. This should have been the final book. It just feels like they know I’ll give them my money to find out what happens next so they can write whatever they want. I have 25 minutes left and I don’t even know if I want to finish it. I’m disappointed. I was waiting for thrilling tails of her kicking ass and taking names and she like sort of starts to feel empowered but gets cut off at the knees and still letting a man save her. Ughhhhhhhhhh

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Fuuuuuuck YES

Revisado: 03-17-20

CONTAINS SPOILERS! Ok not explicitly but general musings so if you’re a hater of any sort of references to potentially spoiling info, this review is not for you.

Ok. So I love Sarah J. Maas and I will gobble anything she writes if only because she has a keen and unflagging understanding of what it is to move through pain and come out the other side. She writes of it spectacularly and for that I will always love her writing.

What I loved:

The abundant use the expletives. The ending. The reveals, the repeated climaxes of the ending. It was delicious.

I loved that it was soooooo long.

This book could stand alone, I will happily read the next ones, but this was a satisfying and fully done story.

What I did not love:

I can’t help but wonder if this will follow her usual love interest trope of bait and switch. Introducing one male, making us fall head over heals and then moving on to the real OPed deal. I hope that this won’t do that. But for most of the book I thought it would and so it made it hard to really get into or root for Hunt.

I also didn’t like that it was so long. I love a long book. The longer the better. But only when the length serves the story. There were parts of the book where character development and plot both halted and it felt like there was just content for the sake of length and nothing else. That’s not a good feeling. I think more could have been done with the latter middle of the book to develop characters and not just keep reiterating points already made.

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Too Slow, Too Juvenile, Poorly Narrated but I’m still reading all of them?

Revisado: 07-15-19

Ok - so I have to give credit where it’s due and admit to the fact that despite my continuously low star rating, I have listened through 4 books and will likely finish the series.

So acknowledging the achievement in that, I will lay out my concerns.

(1) Why does the author insist on telling us things we literally just heard ten minutes ago? You don’t need to almost verbatim repeat the same points. Especially when each character already knows too and you’re not explaining their epiphanies to us.

(2) The narrator. I love how she does Harley and Alton. But everyone else, especially the accent work, is very sloppy, inconsistent and just plain wrong at times. I could not have done this better if my life depended on it. And I’m sure voicing this many characters is a challenging if not down right impossible job. But there are so many talented people putting out narrations on audible - maybe they would have been better suited to the challenge. I cannot differentiate between Astrid and Harley, the accents dip in and out for Tatiana and for others. I don’t know. It’s just kind of shotty work where another voice actor might have lent atmosphere to a somewhat lacking bit of writing.

(3) Which brings me to my last point. I’ve read books about 16 year olds that had more depth and development than this book about a supposed 19 year old. Granted, this does feel age appropriate where those books have seemed reaching for what a 16 year old might be like, but I was surprised at how juvenile the characters are at times, especially Harley.

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Left Wanting So Much More ...

Revisado: 07-03-19

There were a lot of great things about this book. The magic and world building were nice. The characters lovable and developed. But like all things in this book, all those feats were just shy of satisfying. Character development was so close to well done that it hurt all the more that facets of their stories and inner working were left so bereft. Same goes for the development of the romance and ultimately the plot. Even so, the epilogue leaves more questions than answers and While it was a nice book, it fell short of being a great book.

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The Dream Team

Revisado: 06-28-19

First of all, in all honesty, I chose this listen strictly for the narrators who are two of my favorites. Several of the books in my library feature their dual story telling or at least Ms. Hardingham.

I will say that the first quarter of the book it sounds like they re-recorded every time Hardingham says the protagonists name. This makes for some ear irritating shifts in tone and pitch, but rest assured they go away at some point past the first quarter of the book.

When I first started listening, I thought this book would be predictable, I thought I'd figure out exactly where everything was going. And while maybe some plot points at the beginning were obvious, nothing about the twists and turns at the end, did I see coming. I cannot wait for the next one. Please write it quickly.

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Amended; Ok I actually loved this

Revisado: 06-26-19

At first, I couldn't get through this book.

The protagonist came off as whiney and cliche and nothing felt new or really grabbed me.

Then, because I was in a book hole, I kept listening. And I have to say I'm really quite glad that I did. Something I appreciate that this author accomplished extremely well, was illustrating what consent actually is. An enthusiastic, freely given, continuous agreement. I think that having a fantasy novel demonstrate this is so important. Often 'romance' is written as kind of rapey culture, so I actually have to says hats off to the chef for so poignantly and accurately putting what consent looks like into practice.

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I kept listening because I had nothing else, but by the time I got to the end, I was listening non-stop. The protagonist goes through a real journey and the other character development is spot on. I will even say the plot thickened nicely, and I did not see it coming. On that note, I did not see it coming. And part of me feels like this is (if you haven't seen the Disney movie Frozen, the following contains spoilers) was pulled a Hanz and the villain kind of comes out of nowhere, almost to the point of being unbelievable.

I will say the romance is as described, slow burning and delicious. For the protagonist, I kind of wish she had more going for her. I like that she has a disability, I like that she's not white. And I appreciate that she grows a lot along her journey. But there was something missing. I'm not sure what. She was badass. But I guess it was hard that she was so desperate to be loved ... I mean, I understand its a major thrust of the plot. But I always appreciate a strong female protagonist who doesn't need a man. I guess maybe that's reductionist of me, and it isn't unfeminist to want to find love. I think it just made me a bit squeamish because the thought of finding one's life partner at 18 seems too young. But in either case, glad I stuck it out.

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