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Didn’t realize this was book 4 in a series. Oops.

It’s not drawing me in, so I will set it aside for now. Perhaps another time.

Part 1 was good.
Part 2… less good.
Becoming invested only to be plopped into the middle of a romance so forbidden the characters have to erase it from their memory & likely caused deep hurt to everyone they loved? Nah. Taking a break.

This one will be set aside for a bit. It’s not drawing me in, and it’s hinting towards a possible affair, which is not something I’m interested in reading about.

Also, losing her cheap crappy earring because her earlobe was bitten off shouldn’t have been such a focus. Maybe she should care more about her earlobe.

The bell rings every 180 years.
But every generation requires a tribute.
But the tribute is required when the bell rings?

In a book so focused on arithmetic, the math just ain’t mathing.

““Anger,” Larke said, simply. “I was born the year after my own mother was taken beneath the water, the last tribute before this generation’s cycle came due.”

How can a baby be born a year after their mother is no longer alive?

Part 2: so far, it follows a chronological timeline & has chapters instead of interludes.

There’s an epilogue. Then there’s another interlude, and then a part 2.

Huh?

I think this is a book made for those that only want dialogue. Snippets. Because that’s what it is.

It feels like the author wrote scenes as they came to her, and placed them in the order she wrote them, rather than in anything resembling chronological. It’s scattered snippets.

Idk if it’s just the digital formatting, but the words are highlighted. Changing from light mode to dark mode doesn’t change that, the text blocks are still highlighted on the page.

This is the 2nd book where this has been confused: descendants are those who come after you. Ancestors are the ones who came before.

“his foster parents apparently once started a fundraiser to try and exile any citizen who had aether descendants from Warm River, but to no avail.”

Ancestors is the correct term to use here. Otherwise, your kids can stay, but you gotta go?

…cont
Im not sure where the problematic east room is. At first, the upper passage to it had to be watched. Then it was off of the common room, then down a hall, but the entry was still visible from the common room & the griffon lying within the doorway was still in the path.

How does a mule tie on a new ribbon without assistance? Again- he has HOOVES or he’s not a MULE. A mule doesn’t have claws or digits?

Overall I’m enjoying this series. I don’t fully understand the magic system, but it flows through the story in a way that doesn’t require full understanding.

However…

I’m not certain that the author a) knows what a mule is (they don’t have foreclaws, they have hooves) or b) that a mule is often larger than a horse, not small like a donkey.

Cont…

Apparently this one is too modern for me. I’m not used to language coming from the older characters (older than 30) and it jolts me every time.

Perhaps someday, but not today.

I may try again another time, but for now it’s just not my cup of tea.

I may look for it again someday, but it doesn’t seem to be my thing.

**spoilers**

Part 2 also felt very rushed in many ways. Ceremonies are glossed over, events are told almost as if on fast-forward.

As I begin part 3, I’m unsure what to expect. Will it be a full, engaging story again? Was part 2 merely the bridge between parts 1 & 3, and therefore so… lacking?

**SPOILERS**

Part 1 was engaging. Through trials & tribulations, Alicia overcame & looked after Anna.

Part 2 skipped back in time, and is definitely about Miles. Alicia begins to train him, sees in him a destiny. Then she is unceremoniously killed. We see no battle. We don’t even know for certain if the fall did it, or if her throat was slit. She as no longer needed for the story and is literally cast aside.

Do authors not have editors anymore?

Characters change gender, names, and dragons get magically relocated when forgotten. And people who only met a few days before have memories of their time together in university.

The story is engaging, certainly enough to keep my interest despite the editing issues. But the grammar and other issues fling my out of the story regularly.

I’m trying. We shall see.

So far, finding out the guy you love is a jerk who wants you as his side piece is far more pain than spending 11 years fighting to survive in hellscapes. But only for a night.

And the “sunny, always cheerful, looks on every bright side” character that can - and will - end you? She’s getting old. There’s naive, and then there’s this girl. Wow.

Hope it improves soon.

I may be too burnt out on Rome right now.

The concept seems intriguing, but the Roman-ness is just a slog at the moment.

I may comeback to it someday.

SPOILERS!

I’m in the midst of this one & I will admit I am very angry. Angry enough that it’s waking me up at night.

This has GOT to be some sort of bubble world, because otherwise Max could not have made that trip - she’s already been there then.

Somehow time was re-written - Matthew Farrel watched it happen.

The paradoxes that cannot NOT exist…

Bring. Him. Back.

I guess we NEED to hate Mr. P.

I may come back to it, but I don’t think I will. The pantheon strongly hates Christianity, as Yeshua took their believers, and thus, their power.

They strongly hate Yeshua.

I have a hard time reading that hatred.

I’m trying to find the desire to pick this up and read. It’s been at the top of the pile of books next to the couch since August, and I want it off of my tbr this year. I’d better get to reading, as the year ends in 2 days.

It seems like it’s floundering - perhaps because the characters are? Idk, it’s just really not engaging. Vin is… boring. Elend is so one dimensional it’s painful.

I am not ok with chapter 14. Not. Ok.

I may come back someday, but it keeps kicking me out of the story. Incomplete sentences, missing words, sudden changes in POV in the middle of a paragraph…
I just can’t do it anymore today.

I’m all of 13% into this book and I already can’t stand it. Sadly, it’s going into the DNF pile.

Perhaps it’s the fact I have 2 daughters of “Marriageable Age” but the fact that she only speaks to her mom once throughout the entire boo - and then rushes a wedding in another country & her parents are not even worth a passing thought?

Who does that?

No thoughts of anyone outside her new little circle of ‘special people’ even exists in her mind. Meh.

I’m 60% through, and the story has already had a major climactic moment.

It has felt very rushed, with weeks skipping past in about a paragraph. It feels like book 1 should’ve ended a chapter ago, but there wasn’t enough “meat” to the story to really have the reader invested enough to continue with another book.

Carlin needs more depth as a character. Maddox is moody & dark. That’s about it.