Lauren Roberts

Ughhhh. I’m literally crying eyes out. I don’t know what does author want from me but all she got is tears. I cannot take this pain. I’m in right now. I think this other actually hates me. Because there is no way she wrote that book not to cry my eyes out. This book was actually everything. The betrayal I felt from this book is the worst thing I have ever felt. I love Kai so much so so so so much. And the end actually makes me wanna die. oh my God. Kai Did it ? why why why? This is actually breaking my heart. This is another level of pain. I literally have went through so many tissues. And I know Kai and Kurt is mad because she killed her father, but she had a great reason and just to find out kai killed her father? This was some next level bullshit writing crap. I honestly don’t know what to say about this book. Because it was so well written that I don’t know how to feel. And if this book put me in a swamp, I’m gonna cry. I literally couldn’t breathe from how hard I was. The ending was the worst part kitt doesn’t know how much KAI loves her. And Kai doesn’t know how much kitt told her and I actually just wanna crawl into a hole and never come out. But pae and Kai were honestly one of the best romantic people I have ever met in my entire life of reading. the way this man felt for her and cared for her is like no other. And the fact they never kissed. And the fact he doesn’t know he killed her father. Ughh I’m going to cry again goodbye. 4.8/5⭐️’s.… (altro)

2.0⭐

So this was a very obvious mix of the Hunger Games and the Throne of Glass with few original ideas, although even those might have been taken from somewhere else. Maybe I have just not read the inspiration yet.

The tournament was uninspired, the trials boring, and I never really felt that our MC was in actual danger. It went so far in taking inspiration from Hunger Games that even in a historical setting we have magical recording and replaying of the trials. Not to mention that besides getting our characters together, what was the actual point of the tournament?

The setting and lore are again very lackluster. Just a bare minimum necessary for the story. Deadly desert right next to the city? The kingdom is so well described that I only know there is a palace and an alley where the poor people live and that those two places are somewhat far away from each other? The magic system was somewhat original, though. I just wish there was a bit more done with it.

The romance line was ok I suppose. It didn't make me feel much, but it also didn't make me annoyed much.

I was actually thinking of DNFing this a few times, especially every time something stupid happened.

The ending did make the book slightly more interesting to me. I didn't expect it would go that way. I might even be slightly interested in the sequel.… (altro)