allioth's reviews
59 reviews

A great book!, it has a slow start so you need to get beyond the 40% to actually get invested, but when you do time goes flying.

Sade it's an interesting protagonist, and the secondary characters and their relationship with both, each other and Sade, feels very real.

And while the book doesn't have n breathtaking writing I thought the themes were handed with a lot of delicacy, and the vivid description of the characters' feelings made the scenes more believable!

I am definitely reading the next book of the author, she has incredible potential!





(Persephone is the best girl <33)

En este mundo hay 2 tipos de personas:

La primera, cree que esta es la peor atrocidad que han visto sus ojos

Y la segunda, cree que es la mejor cosa que ha podido tocar sus retinas

Bryan Lee O'Malley could be a 45 year-old man, but he sure knows how to capture the average teenage girl experience

This book would've been a hundred times better if, instead of this story with a convoluted ending, we got the Camp Jupiter equivalent of Camp Half-Blood Confidential.

(Also, why in Hades do none of the new characters introduced here appear in The Tyrant's Tomb???)

I have to live my truth...

3/5

Easy read, I like how the book it's written, it makes you feel more connected to Charlie and his world, and it does a great job at portraying anxiety.

Nevertheless this book has a problem that I can only describe as "to much trauma", like Charlie's sister gets an abortion and after the letter where it's mention it's never touched again???, Michael's death even seems irrelevant at times.

But you know, I'm also a teenager (who is not particularly "participating") and all the graduation stuff and the simple things like just hang out with friends pulled my heartstrings

El verdadero desarrollo de personaje fue knives pasando de ser de la grasa a ser de boca

I came for the romance,
I stayed for the plot.

I understand how someone could DNF this book:

1. It's advertised as an M/M romance, but the characters don't have many romantic interactions.

2. here are incredibly long (and sometimes unnecessary) descriptions and infodumping.

But for me, this wasn't a problem. Alec's and Seregil's relationship is so well-constructed; they're both exactly what the other needs to improve as a person, and I'm a sucker for the "be gay and do crime" trope, soooo...

While the story isn't the most groundbreaking and creative piece of literature, it's interesting enough for this book, and the world presented has potential even if it's just your average medieval fantasy.

Flewelling's strongest point is certainly the relationships between her characters, though. There wasn't a single moment where I didn't believe in the connection she claimed they had.

Overall, an amazing book! It took me a long time to read because I'm not used to this kind of fantasy, but I would definitely read the rest of the series!





Pd: I love how funny this book is at times, Seregil and Thero being the perfect example of this


Pd 2: I also love how Alec is surprised someone would even think Seregil and him are lovers, but then proceeds to act like his long-life husband and says stuff like:

"you know all those nights you were gone.."

This book is extremely nostalgia pandering....











And I love it