Restless Slumber

I've been sitting on this for the day and the more I think about this series, the angrier I'm getting and knocking this down to 2 stars from my original 4.

First things first, the smut is bad. I'm sorry but two to three sentences of being eaten out isn't satisfying, and like, writing sex scenes shouldn't be as difficult as this book made it seem. It was clunky, and just not it for me. But I'm willing to overlook this because it's not the whole story. But I'd like to quickly add, that the rape between her and the demon (she agreed to this sex act however the disassociation, wanting it to be over, feeling “empty” general depression after the fact, and acknowledging this was only as a transaction is rape to me) was so poorly written? I can't get over it honestly. The writing style is very stream of conscious at times, and it was noticeable at this very pivotal time in the plot. It just didn't sit well with me.

Also the way Colliths death was handled? Again, stream of concious style writing had a huge disservice to his death. It's like our writer has so many ideas and plot points they want to make, it just sentence after sentence with no feeling. I'd expected to feel something for Colliths death and it was just bland.

Speaking of this, books are allowed I acknowledge to end on cliff hangers. But to start so many open ended questions of various characters or plots is hard to want to deal with. Like Laurie admitting he put the scar on Collith. Or Oliver leaving things in the real world. I don't want plots to feel like a huge effort to keep track of.

A lot of shit happens out of convienance too. I feel there has been zero repercussions for Fortunas actions. Colliths death would of been nice as a moment for her to really reflect on what's happening to her life, but instead she found a way to have advantage on death, regardless of what that cost was. Its whatever she wants, when she wants it, and if that's the entire series will we ever experience emotions during reading them? Another thing of convenience that bothers me the most is her “powers”, or “bond” she has with all the faeries in unseelie court. This bond is difficult on her when we want to add tension, but always seem easy to overcome and bring more power to her when she needs it, like during fighting?

Fuck I really could keep going on and on. This review is mainly for me to remind myself when the third book comes out, to not have high hopes.