The Everlasting Rose

Considering how I loved the first book, I'm not sure what made it not work this time around. This book feels too long and yet too short at the same time. Pages and pages of awful pacing, leading to a very unsatisfying ending. The fact that the main character, Camellia, has little to no character growth really didn't help, neither did her romance with Rémy that seemed to have started out of nowhere.

See, Camille started out naive so her clueless trait worked for the first book. Here, it doesn't work anymore because she's been betrayed before and yet she continues trusting others easily. It makes no sense, and it also makes her look stupid. It feels kind of ridiculous to have such a character at the center of this so-called “revolution”, which is also very anticlimactic.

Overall, it just lost the magic of the first book.