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Where do I start? This book was utterly disappointing and I DNFed at 70%. Could I have battle through? Yes but after seeing the utter disgust for the plot twist with people who have the same thoughts at me, I made the decision to happily DNF.
I was excited for this book but in no way did this book succeed at anything remotely good. The character development was shallow, to be nice. The characters were the epitome of good girl who isn't like other girls and the man is simply a villain? dark hair and blue eyes that you can't forget about because you are reminded every seen he is in. Our FMC personality is inconsistent in every way and now thinking about it so is our MMCs.
The pacing was tragic, we spent months searching for something in the human world and two weeks in the fae realm and we are in love? The plot packed all depth and it felt things were through in simply for creating a book, zero connection to past instances or any basis for what was happening.
The background knowledge we get is nonexistent. Here's a list of things that are not explained by the 70%: the magic system, the political system, the generic layout of the fae realm, who Eli is (aka who propelled our FMC entire obsession with winged creation which is the ENTIRE STORY), and the differences between magical creatures. To put this into perspective, fae were described as have pointy ears until 60% in...
I unfortunately bought the physical book but was also reading on KU. The formatting in KU was undoubtedly fucked. Dashes in places were they should and weird additions not found in the physical copy.
Save your time and money please.
I hate to be one of those people that are like you are missing the point but I feel many of the horrible reviews on this book went in with the expectations that were not apt. The first sentence for gods sake says that he like hurting women?? and y'all expected him to be likable and enjoy listening to his story?
This story is incredibly unique as it is an inner monologue of an absolute abysmal man who hurts women for the sake of seeing their pain, a drunk, and overall a shit person. You see him fall in love with hurting people and with a young lady who becomes the victim of his obsession. It is uneasy and will reminder you r/incels and that is exactly what I feel the author set out to do. You get to see this man indirectly go crazy and one women turn his similar tactics on him. He is unreliable and absolutely disgusting. Every moment of this book made me feel some emotions (mostly bad), that is a job well done.
I had such high hopes after the first book and this simply did not hit the same. I felt Kiva devolved as a character and the story was extremely repetitive with mini side quests with the other arching plot not taking place until the last 80% ish. I still loved following our character (aka Jaron) but this just did not slap. Truly, I could see the plot twist this time from a mile away.
