Shy > Recent Status Updates

Raihn was drunk and someone told him to get water. Do vampires need water? Does alcohol dehydrate them? Wouldn't they then need blood to compensate, not water? It's the small things that make me wonder.

Calla's literally dying on the ground and she's thinking about Clair and Markos. Shes such a waste of a character, all of her chapters are bad.

Why are Calla's chapters always basically a recap of a chapter that I've read in the same book? No real update, I'm just annoyed to be reading the same scene AGAIN.

My biggest issue with this series is that we're all over the timeline and it's very difficult to track. We've even had a flashback in a flashback, which is so dumb. And tracking the same scenes over and over from different POVs is so incredibly boring. It was nice at first for backstory stuff but it's overdone at this point, just hand me the main plot please.

Spoiler
Wasn't the manticore story about Nathaniel? Pairing that with the "my brother is better at everything" from the last chapter, multiple people commenting that Nathaniel is so much more competent than Achaicus, the twin swap thing, the chapters being titled for Achaicus even though we're in the younger brothers head and Nathaniel's hatred of being in charge? Gonna guess that they've been swapped for a while.

Progress is slow going because the grammar pretty bad, but I'm decently invested in the story so far. Eric and Charles being their names throws me in the funniest way because those are such ordinary names during this wildly weird book. Found out there's an audiobook, so I'm considering the switch for my own sanity. But I dont know if I want to buy this book again when there's like four more without an audiobook.

Did this book have an editor? The grammer is so bad and the pacing is so weird. I'm trying to power through it because the premise is interesting, but it's very distracting.

Major spoiler


No way he just proposed to her THE DAY SHE FOUND OUT HER MOTHER WAS DEAD and she thought this was a good idea. The book is bad but even I couldn't have predicted something that stupid.

I'm so incredibly tired of people overusing male/female. No one talks like this and, as someone LGBT, it bothers me immensely every time. Also, PLEASE stop using fae when your character's are literally just something else.

What in the Wattpad "My dad sold me to One Direction" mixed with "I can fix him" is this. Like, this is decently entertaining but it's so bad that I can't understand why everyone recommends it. Wait, yes I can, it's all these new "dark, spicy romance" lovers that obviously didn't have a Wattpad phase. Gonna keep reading because at least it's entertaining but the writing is not great.

I know I shouldn't compare the published version to the old fiction press version, but the original book has been my favorite example of ptsd and recovery from trauma ever. I'm devastated that it's gone, but that's not the published versions' fault, so I'll just hide that in my update feed. I'm begging the publisher, please give her more pages. She writes such beautiful work when you're not limiting her.

I'm once again here to complain about the pacing of this series. This book is set up to have so many fun interweaving issues but it feels like one comes up and it's immediately handled. New mages in town? We're perfectly rational, we can be a background issue! Hunters in town? We can talk it out and be more of a help than a problem! Eben kidnapped? Give him 2 days! I need just a little more tension in my plot, I beg.