Review #532
“If waging war for one woman is a crime, then please do consider me a criminal. If killing thousands to keep you alive is wrong, then consider me a villain. If loving you this much is my downfall… then consider me already on my knees.”
“I would do it a thousand times over, heart; you should know that. I will choose you over the world every single time.”
I’d give this one a generous 4.0/5 stars. This was my least favorite of the three and dragged a lot for the middle 80%. Technically the first and last 10% were good.
My random ramblings while reading:
Seems like choosing these bracelets to take away her powers is quite stupid. The prophecies are confusing. Why does she have all these random nicknames? Isla Heartblade, Queen of the snakes, the heartripper, etc.
I’ll never understand the attraction readers have to blood mixed with steamy scenes.
The magic system is getting unnecessarily complex and confusing. Now we have a magical pen that communicates with a specific dead person?
And there’s a skyre…? Which is putting a soul into an object, maybe?
Then the ring that she lost that holds a storm…
And her bracelets that block her power…
There’s way too many tangents
At the halfway point I’m frustrated by the lack of clear focus and direction of the plot.
I’m tired of so many scene breaks
I’m so done with the dead coming back to life…
Page 340 I’m just confused by what’s happening in the giant climatic scene because there are too many characters involved at once.
The vial will claim her mother’s power of knowing the future? Idk how I feel about this. Her dad’s letter felt a lot like info dumping to explain instead of emotional to his unborn child.
It was interesting that both Oro and Grim have their own chapters at the end. It finishes in a major cliffhanger and doesn’t have any closure about what the entire book’s plot revolved around. At this point, I don’t know how long I want to be dragged along to know who she picks in the long term. That’s all I care about.