Katelyn

I wanted a lot more witchcraft, way less pregnancy tropes

Revisado: 04-14-25

I was expecting a fun witchy story, throwing me into the groovy late 60s, true friendship. Instead, I got a lot of complaining about salt cravings and stereotypes of southern women.

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This guy never stops rambling

Revisado: 08-06-24

This was a book club choice so I tried SO HARD multiple times to get through but holy cow this guy loves to talk! I don’t need a half hour side note on the full backstory of how a neighbor bought his car or seven metaphors for each sentence of actual plot! DNF in chapter 3, and I rarely DNF. story was maybe good but all the tangents make it so hard to follow.

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Beautiful descriptions

Revisado: 06-29-24

The imagery in this book is stunning, you so easily fall into feeling like you are in the mountains seating flies even if you’ve never been in a wood. The story is so realistic and heartbreaking, a good read.

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Holy Cow

Revisado: 02-01-24

No spoilers here, just be warned there is a LOT of characters to keep up with and a lot to unpack. I had to start taking notes and ended up with 6 full pages. Many characters are on their own story lines so can be difficult to keep straight but SJM does a good job of splitting them so not too much time passes. I felt the pacing was either full throttle or crawling with not much in between. The overall timeline of this book is crazy short for the amount of events. I honestly think she could have split this into multiple books (chapter 19 alone could be its own series) but also glad she didn’t drag it out. I’m very excited for how this ties in with other SJM series and new potentials.

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Predictable but entertaining enough

Revisado: 05-09-23

Nothing in this book is a new concept, definitely follows a lot of YA storylines of war-torn-teens-in-training type worlds, but with dragons. The dialogue and relationships are predictable. The spice scenes are decent. Narrator is breathy and not much distinction between character voices or with dialogue vs narration but does at least keep the correct energy for each scene.

Overall nothing to mark it as unique or special but not horrible either. I will still read the second one when it comes out but this will not be a must read for me.

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Cliche and bad voice acting

Revisado: 01-28-22

I thought the idea of the shadows was interesting but otherwise very cliche “young king looking for his family’s murderers” and overly confident main character with no actual skills combined with a want-to-be sexy voice acting making it feel even more cheap. Not recommended.

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Hard to distinguish thoughts vs spoken

Revisado: 10-21-20

So much of this book is thoughts mixed with spoken dialogue and the narrator doesn’t distinguish this which makes following along very difficult. It’s also so much repeat of the first book that it’s easy to tune out.

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I'm only finishing it because I bought it

Revisado: 11-28-17

The story overall was a very average coming of age, semi medieval society style book. The main character is the typical insecure woman who is given too much power by chance of fate and has to step into some big shoes for a failing country who needs a hero. The side characters have more of a personality but follow more of the typical body guard, handsome bad boy crush, evil queen, and abused women given a second chance. The only unique idea is the history of the land, but it never gets explained and it's very confusing.
Honestly, it's not anything special, no new ideas, and I only finished it because I have nothing better in my library at the moment.

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