Amelia’s Reviews > Broken Dove > Status Update

It annoys me that the women in these books never SPEAK.

Oh come on. She is mystified when he gives her the space and distance she said she needs? She is annoyed that she is the one who has to decide she wants him? This is what she asked for. And yet, through narration the author tells us it’s only hers because of misogyny. Come on.

This book has moments in plot and in the romance arc that are redeeming, but mostly it is way to easy to think of Apollo as a attempted redo of Frey, and while he is an improved version of Frey, it is kind of — boring. Because no one has really had to work for anything, and the main characters don’t really have unique personalities.

This book was going so well until it went totally tits up at the inn. Apollo didn’t even have to earn Ilsa’s attentions. We just leave it aaaalllll up to magic adella tea, and now it’s all flowers and talking bunnies and everyone just looooves each other no problems to speak of. What a miss! I was so looking forward to some power play.