Princes of Legacy

Still reading on Ch 8.

Disclaimer:The first two prince books had been my favorite in the series! I thought the characters were the most complex and well developed yet.

That being said, so far though, (up to chapter 8) I'm not at all disappointed in the content/plot but the writing is just not up to Samgels standard. Some chapters have the same poetic prose and are able to just effortlessly paint pictures in my mind, just as I've come to expect from them. Others feel like they were written by another author, or are just in an “early draft”.

Maybe its the fact that there are SO many plot threads running through this book, and so the plot is overwhelming the characters, but it almost feels like the depictions of verity and the princes are just caricatures or cardboard cutouts of the beautifully developed humans we got to meet in the first two books. I especially felt this way with Wicker Lex and Verity (so most of them I guess lol). Like are all saying the things they are “supposed to say” based off of who we knew them to be in the first two books but I haven't yet felt like they were living breathing beings, at least not in the same way as I did for the first two books in this trilogy.

I know the authors had a lot going on on their personal lives while writing this one, but I think I would've preferred they take their time and take longer with this book. So far its feeling like the writing was a bit rushed. Again, the princes have been my favorite house so far and I'm a bit worried with how this is going that I'll end up disappointed in the end.