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I've read the second part/book now.

My biggest gripe with this second part is that Chloe is actually locked up a lot of the time making it boring.

The author tries to remedy this with different perspectives and her sneaking out or taking up opportunities when she can. It does work but it takes a while to get there so the first half a slog.

I mean it's fine, the story is cohesive but I was slow with this one.

When I was a teenager I gave this book a go in novel form. I remember it being particularly hard to read and it struggled to find its footing with setting up this world, characters and magic.

When I saw this comic version at the library, I had hoped that giving it another go in a more visual format would help me digest the story. It still seems to struggle with the same problems.

I've been enjoying this book so far. I've been a fan of Richelle's writing and I've been reading a lot of books with styles that aren't to my taste so this has been a nice change of pace.

I'm not a fan of this sort of story with preparing for court, women being trained to sold into being wives and that sort of thing but I knowing Richelle I have a lot of faith in seeing where this goes.

This book needs a map!

There reaches a point where I question what is the point of making your protagonist a vampire if you're going to take out all the things that make a vampire a vampire. So just a random chick with big teeth?

And the writing is really not for me, it's so cheesy. I think I'm just not the right audience for this one.

I also don't get why it's modern or why if they're at war they live in the same city for years?

I've read the first book "The Fallen" now. Initially, I remember finding the premise quite interesting being a teenager myself at the time I first read it and watched the show.

Picking this up again, I actually hated it. The language is dated and she is quite girly and annoying. But I came to really like it because she's acting her age and doing the best in her situation.

Everything from here on will be new to me.

I finished part two and it's probably the best literature I've genuinely read since I can remember.

I've read the first part of this book and the writing is very good. The artwork in this book is also incredible and atmospheric.

I will say that it is very hard to keep up with names even if I have some semblance of an idea when it comes to the houses of this world. There are just too many to remember and no matter how hard I tried I could not absorb them all and stay on track.