Dark Heir

Oh... no. My sweet dark baby of a book, why do you hurt me so?

I so rarely read a sequel that I enjoy less than the first book. For all its flaws Dark Rise was a great book with a fantastic ending and a twist that left me wanting more. It was me placing an order for some tasty, spicy food on DoorDash. Dark Heir is the 42 minutes I spend looking at the app waiting for the food to arrive and it ends just as the driver rings the doorbell.

Dark Rise made so many promises with that ending and the sequel just did not bother to deliver. It makes so many questionable choices. Dark Rise had the terribly boring villain Simon to deal with and it ended with making him disappear. Awesome! Now we get to focus on the Dark King returned... but nope. Instead we get Simon's daddy Sinclair who was mentioned in Dark Risetwice. We get Mrs. Duval who can control Lions who was never mentioned! Our gang travels to Italy to deal with matters never before mentioned.

It reads well and I love these characters but what is this? This went in completely the wrong direction to the first book. It had nothing interesting, the ending was... nothing. I demand the book I was promised, Cat.