Jasmine’s Reviews > Web of Vows and Vengeance > Status Update

Omg this Zara chick, aka Female Jack Barlow from Fourth Wing, is so obnoxious. I get the good guy sparing the life of the bad guy once, maybe twice, but after that? Nope. Finish the job. The repetition of this storyline is so boring and played out. Enough. Her death wasn’t even satisfying because she was so obnoxious and I was so tired of hearing about her.

I can’t put my finger on what makes this book so cringy.

I am not loving this, but I also don’t DNF books. Just waiting to see if there’s a hook. This might be better if you haven’t read a lot of romantasy. Otherwise it feels like it’s recycling a lot of elements of other books. And almost all of the names of the characters are STUPID. Like, make you roll your eyes kind of stupid.

She wears a dress to a ball that has wings. Initially like bat wings…but then the fabric makes them look like feathers. So raven wings.

Just like when Katniss’ dress turns into a mockingjay.

Some of these similarities are too much for me.

This just feels a little lacking in creativity. A weird mashup of Fourth Wing, Hunger Games, and Harry Potter 4 where someone special to them is taken and they have to rescue their loved one. I’m waiting for it to start standing on its own.

Upon introduction, I can tell the character named Jonas is going to be the childhood-friend-turned-enemy. I just have a feeling. This is the second romantasy book I’ve read with a character named Jonas and it is super weird to have a child whose uncommon name turns up in two fairly new, fairly popular romantasy books.

Don’t really know what is going on at this point, just in it for Anthony Palmini narration right now.