Samael. THE SAMAEL goes by the name Viper. VIPER!
I can’t accept this.
I will admit it was better than the last one - hunted - but I stand by the fact that I don’t believe this should be a part of the “dark in you” series.
This had a completely different feel to it altogether.
Both the main characters had extremely loose connections to everyone from the original group, even those who came in later books such as the hellhorses and The Fallen.
The people we have read about in all the other books were probably in ten pages combined through this book.
If I look at this as a standalone and forget about the fact that it was a part of a series, it was good in some ways.
I loved the beginning and was hooked from the start - royally pissed off that they killed her - but writing what inspires emotion can only ever be a good thing.
I liked their romance. He definitely gave more to their love than she did, which I wish was different.
I didn’t like the time jump where they had suddenly been together for a few weeks, but they were still not sure whether or not it was an actual relationship or not.
I loved Ella’s anchor bond with Luca in the beginning of the book, then came to resent it, only to like it, and then be left completely unsatisfied.
He was so overprotective and sweet in the beginning. Then he was so unsupportive when he found out she was pregnant. Then they sort of half way figured it out. Then we never heard about it again.
They never had a real heart to heart talk.
We didn’t see him realise how much it hurt her when he wasn’t supportive from the get go.
The plot was very unclear to me.
I didn’t understand the point behind the notes. How they were foolish threats in the beginning, and suddenly it was a death threat. And there was no real plan to figure the notes out.
There were no grand attacks on Ella in particular that truly gave her character some action.
This really surprised me because this author is nothing if not repetitive in her writing, and in literally every book she writes the female main character is attacked in some way around halfway through the book.
I felt like Ella just sailed through it.
And it was repetitive in other ways. The characters are all the same as everyone she ever writes.
It doesn’t really bother me, or I wouldn’t read the books, but I do wish they would show some goddamn EMOTION other than UNDERSTANDING!
Like every time Ella found out something about Viper.
She didn’t have to have a full on tantrum or anything.
I mean calm down it wasn’t that deep.
But she could have at least said she needed a minute and walked off to think.
And I swear, every female main character she writes does this.
They hear about something awful someone wants to do to them, or that has been kept from them, and they are just like “oh, well, is the dinner served yet? I’m hungry” as if nothing ever fazes them and gives them pause, and it is so unrealistic.
It was like she couldn’t be separated from her sister for the life of her I swear.
Half of this book was honestly devoted to her sister’s love story, and anchor bond troubles, and we didn’t even get a conclusion to either.
Does that mean Mia gets her own book, or is this series over, or what is happening??
I just want it said that I did love the premise of the book. With her being reincarnated, and him searching for her, and being so obsessed with her and devoted to her, and her accepting every part of his curse.
Not to mention that this curse actually had real consequences.
Drinking blood seems terrible - not so terrible that I understood the great apprehension in sharing it with Ella - but since he has no choice and can get into a blood rage, it’s terrible.
But what really struck me was the whole having wings and not being able to fly, thing, and that everything around him dies or inspires chaos and rage. That seems truly terrible.
If this book had been the first in a spinoff I would have been so eager to see the rest of everyone’s stories such as Mia, Jesper, Ghost, and even Luka.
They all felt like characters that would have interesting stories, and like characters that would actually get their own book. But how many books can actually be in a series?
Isn’t this the tenth?