OYENTE

Kristin

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Such a special series

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-11-25

This entire series has stolen my heart. The writing is so beautiful— the world created, the believable and nuanced characters, the unique system of magic…the romance. I love everything about it.

On top of that, the narration is SO well done. My favorite of any audio book I’ve listened to.

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Not good…bordering on really bad

Total
1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-27-24


It takes forever for anything to actually happen. Feels like 3/4s of it is just the main character’s infuriating whining.

I can have patience, but the plot and characters both just feel extremely “basic”. There’s a lack of emotional depth that drives me crazy. And the plot line is just so straightforward…I realize it’s YA, but honestly at many points it read like something intended for a child.

I kept hoping it was going to get better due to all the good reviews, but it just didn’t. Not for me.

EDIT: I hadn’t finished the whole thing yet when I first left my review. Now that I have, it somehow got even worse. The timeline jumps around in super bizarre ways that make 0 sense.

But what bugs me the most is how one dimensional the characters are. Benevolent monarchs and evil rebels that only exist in kids’ fairytales. Real humans are much more complex.

The romance is also terrible. The first 1/2 she absolutely hates Logan and can’t shut up about her perfect, sweet, missing prince. Then she does a 180 and she’s actually been in love with Logan the whole time, even though all the flashbacks had been building her love story with the prince and all her interactions with Logan had been downright hostile. It reads like a 12 year old’s version of romance, where kids are still mean when they have a crush and feelings can change dramatically from one day to the next.

The world building is awful. I’m still not sure if it’s supposed to take place in a slightly factionalized version of our world in the past, or be a completely different world.

There’s faeries thrown in for no reason at all. Plays no part in the plot. It’s like the publisher told the author they had to do that so they could sell it as a fantasy novel.


SPOILER: Also the queen/ollie’s mother makes no sense. It’s implied she loved her brother in law and bore his son, yet she had no reaction when she found him dead by the hand of a woman she’d always openly hated. For a brief moment, I thought the plot was actually going to surprise me with a rare moment of depth/a plot line I hadn’t seen coming since page 5– I thought it meant the Queen hadn’t consented to being w Eric/that Eric had tried tan attack her in the same manner he did Charlie. While I would never wish SA on a character, it would explain so much about her character’s motivations through the novel. Instead, it was just….she loves her son so much and wants political stability for his safety. So she remained a totally one note character (possessive mother in law from hell that was obsessed w her son to the point of hating any woman that came near him).

I do NOT understand all the great reviews, and find the comparisons to ACOTAR/TOG offensive lol.

EDIT: While I found this book intolerable (I rarely write reviews, much less essays like the one above lol), for some reason I started the next in the series, Rowan. It’s SO so so so so much better. So to anyone else that hated this book, Rowan is a cute, often funny YA tale. Still firmly YA, but in a way that my cold 35yo heart finds charming. The characters, romance, and world building are all leaps and bounds better. It’s like an actual adult wrote it and then took it to be edited by yet another actual adult.

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Incredibly worth the listen/read

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-21-24

I’m shocked this book/series doesn’t have more fanfare. It’s beautifully written, and does a great job of balancing fantasy, politics, and romance. The leads are engaging, believable characters and the romance rings true. If you’re a fan of the TOG or ACOTAR series, do yourself a favor and read this.

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Long Epilogue

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-17-24

I saw another review state this reads like a long , and that’s spot on. The only reason I enjoyed it was because I’d just finished It Ends with Us and was already emotionally invested in the characters.

There’s just not…much meat to the plot line, If you r lead IEWU then I recommend this. Otherwise I’d pass.

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