664 pages and not once did I think "It's dragged" because it was perfect. Every word was necessary and every woThis was everything I wanted and more.
664 pages and not once did I think "It's dragged" because it was perfect. Every word was necessary and every word built this story to be the way it was.
After the disappointment I felt once I finished the second book, I had no hopes from the third one but this book kept me hooked. This was the best book in the series. A perfect end to a brilliant series.
Short chapters. Interesting POVs. Fast paced plot. Brilliant characters. And oh, so much love.
I wish I could explain how much I love my three Antaris. They were so brilliant in this book, all three of them.
Kell, my baby, is everything. He's everything good and everything precious in the world and he was the reason I first fell in love with this series and he remained my favourite until the very end. My brilliant, beautiful man.
Lila, my toughest thief, my lone wolf and my favourite. Nothing in this world could make me hate her, nothing. Everything she became was due to the circumstances in her life. She was ruthless and dangerous because she had to fend for herself from a very young age. I'm glad she got what she wanted because she deserved it.
Holland, I know he's suffered more than Jesus and I'm so glad he got to rest. I'm so glad it ended the way it did. He always carried the weight of the power he was born with and it made sense that when that weight was lifted, he was finally resting. My heart broke for him and I wish he could have felt happiness at least once or see a world he fought so hard for but some things are not meant to be.
Rhy, my beautiful, silly, sensitive king. I love him so much and I cried when the deaths happened. I cried when he suffered. He lost so much. So much. Yet, he stood by his brother, his family and fought with everything in him. A true king. I hope he lives a happy fulfilling life with Alucard cause he deserves it.
I could probably write essays about how much everyone's relationship meant to me but I don't think we have enough word limit for that. If you read this review, this is your sign to pick this series up because you won't regret it. ...more
If I had Goodreads back when I first read ATYD, I would have written an essay on how much the first four years meant to me but since I didn't, I'm3.5
If I had Goodreads back when I first read ATYD, I would have written an essay on how much the first four years meant to me but since I didn't, I'm here, rereading and falling in love with my family all over again.
I'm quite literally Wolfstar's love child. I love them so much, especially Sirius. I relate to him in a way that I can't express and he'll always be my baby but the love I feel for Moony is different. It's so pure and I just want him to be happy, to have everything he ever wants.
I know we're losing the plot when real men are competing with fictional men in the race of "Who is worse?"
This book started really good, I was enjoyiI know we're losing the plot when real men are competing with fictional men in the race of "Who is worse?"
This book started really good, I was enjoying it so much. Loved the tension, loved the concept, loved the psychological parts of it until it became about torturing the FMC to bring out her "true self"
Why? Give me one reason why do we need to torture women to prove a point? "I know you are a killer inside and I will bring out your true self" and it sounds a lot like what real men do to women to justify abuse which isn't much different in this books.
"But he kills rapists" while also abusing a woman he claims to love so how does that make him any better? Like I've said before, I'd read Dark Romance and enjoy it as long as it's not used to justify abuse. And it was abuse.
Also, WHY is it always a man torturing a woman? If this isn't misogyny...
And before any of you brainless losers come at me with "omg he's a psychopath" or whatever the fuck you wanna use to justify abuse, all I'm saying is stop calling it a romance of the MMC is abusing the woman. It's not romantic when you have to break someone's mind by bringing them pain to prove a point or convince yourself that you belong together. That's all it was.
All Grayson did was abuse her to prove a point to himself and to her that she is a killer and he knows. He wanted to convince her that they belong together by breaking her mind which is something she clearly wasn't ready for and if you think that's love... okay, darling. ...more
This was EVERYTHING. I loved it so much, it made me so happy. I wish I could explain or express just how HA3.5
Dramione + Amnesia trope never misses.
This was EVERYTHING. I loved it so much, it made me so happy. I wish I could explain or express just how HAPPY Dramione makes me.
I've been in a slump for MONTHS now because no romance book that's come out in recent times is good. They all fall down the same "tropes" hole and it makes it BORINGGGG but I can always count on my AO3 writers to get me out of a slump and care about love and romance again.
A heartbreaking tale of loneliness, intimacy and love.
"A new dream is a new happiness! A new dose of exquisite, voluptuous poison!"
I really did expeA heartbreaking tale of loneliness, intimacy and love.
"A new dream is a new happiness! A new dose of exquisite, voluptuous poison!"
I really did expect to cry over this book but sadly, I didn't.
Nevertheless, this book was beautiful. It talked about very real issues of isolation and loneliness that I could personally relate to very deeply. For someone who self isolates and finds happiness only inside her fantasies, this book felt like reading my own thoughts. The narrator's struggles are very similar to my own and that honestly made me sad.
Here, the narrator is someone who is a shy and awkward person who isolates himself and deprives himself of human connection because he's too afraid to be embarrassed and saying the wrong things. Fantasies are much more comfortable to him than reality and hence he spends a lifetime living inside his head instead of living in the reality. What brings him happiness is made up things inside his head but at the same time he's terribly lonely and craves human connection and intimacy that's more than just seeing certain people on a daily.
While walking home, he encounters a girl crying and tries to help her. While he walks her home, they talk. While talking, the narrator tells the girl about his struggles of loneliness and how he dreams of love and companionship but has never encountered a woman that's not a land lady or a woman that would give him a chance. At the same time, the girl opens up about being tied to her blind grandmother and her struggles with the same loneliness that the narrator feels. Eventually they both decide to meet the next night and get to know each other.
The intimacy described in this book isn't physical but rather the intimacy of knowing, of understanding and of staying. The narrator used to find it intimate to know that he will see the same people everyday. It was a routine and that routine was intimacy. To know what someone will be doing at what time. Similarly, with the girl, the narrator discovers the intimacy of knowing. He opens up to someone for the first time in his life and that is liberating and intimate. Human connection is intimate.
Eventually the author falls in love with the girl as she opens up about her struggles and her loneliness and her heartache. The narrator feels as though he's found the love he's always dreamed of. Someone who understands him and his loneliness and coping mechanisms without judging but at the end, the love is unrequited.
Through the character is Nastenka (the girl), I believe the author is trying to portray the loneliness of carrying a burden. Nastenka has been alone all her life due to her responsibility and that loneliness lead her to feel suffocated inside her grandmother's home. She is, like the narrator a dreamer but she's braver than the narrator as she took a chance with her lover and succeeded. I think that's one of the major differences between the narrator and Nastenka. She took a chance and then tried her hardest to find her happiness while the narrator had lived comfortably in his loneliness.
But nevertheless, this was a beautiful book. I can probably go on and on about this book but that'll not be interesting enough for everyone. I highly recommend it.
"My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?" ...more
This book was so boring it put me to sleep. After 50%, I was just skimming because how do you write not one but two c1.5
And .5 for Sloane and Rowan.
This book was so boring it put me to sleep. After 50%, I was just skimming because how do you write not one but two characters with no personality? Lark had more personality in Sloane's book than she had in her own.
Lachan? Bland as an avocado. This is exactly why grumpy sunshine is one of my least favourite tropes because there's nothing more to the man than being grumpy. Lachan wasn't funny, wasn't flirty or anything else. He was bland, pathetic (in a loser way and not in a hot way) and incredibly annoying at times.
Also, I'm sorry, the marriage of convenience didn't make sense and seemed forced. It added almost nothing to the plotline because let's be honest, it was non existent! There was nothing keeping me interested and everything was SO repetitive that skimming seemed like the best way to finish this book.
I can't name one thing I liked about their relationship. Not one. I liked Rose more than I liked Lark and that's sad. How do you write an amazing book like Butcher & Blackbird and then write this catastrophe (pun intended).
I really really really hope Fionn and Rose's book is better....more
Okay, so this was interesting yet a little frustrating.
I wanted more scenes with Kell and Lila together. I wanted more.
The storyline, the writing anOkay, so this was interesting yet a little frustrating.
I wanted more scenes with Kell and Lila together. I wanted more.
The storyline, the writing and the pacing was all really really good but I would have loved this book a lot more if I had gotten more scenes with them or more scenes with Rhy and Emery. I adore them both.
I don't hate anyone, I don't think anyone is the villain, especially not Holland who has suffered so much, he needs to rest. My heart honestly breaks for him and I hope the series ends with his happiness if no one else's.
I love how much Lila has grown. I adore this woman and her ruthlessness along with her avoidant attachment style. Again, can't blame her. She's only ever been alone so being with people and FEELING are not something she's used to having. I'm glad she found Emery, no matter how much KELL hates it.
I actually take back what I said, I do hate someone in this book and it's the King and the Queen. I hate them. I hope Kell, my baby, is free by the end of it. He deserves everything and more.
This book does end on a cliffhanger unlike the first one so be mindful!...more
This is only getting 2.5 stars because I love pain and I adored the last 30% of the book.
Let's talk about this book in detail. Starting with the storThis is only getting 2.5 stars because I love pain and I adored the last 30% of the book.
Let's talk about this book in detail. Starting with the storyline and the plot. As this is the last book in the series, I expected much more from this but it ended up disappointing me in more ways than one. I just hate how many elements this book had, so many characters, so many different tribes and names after a point, it just became too confusing to follow.
The last two books in the series were unnecessarily long with useless twists and turns. I understand the need to show violence, murder and the killing but this book went from one attack to another, one fight to another, one displacement to another and you had little bit of story in between.
Also, the plot line fell flat with the "he's made of love" because I'm sorry, "love" and "vengeance" is not an answer for a four book series. Also, if it was just this easy to talk to him and comfort him, as Laia did in the end, why did no one try it before? It just felt so underwhelming.
Writing wise I have no complaints, I think it was well done. It was also quite fun to read words from the language I speak (Hindi and Urdu). It made me really excited.
Coming to characters, 90% of the book, Elais annoyed me. I'm sorry, I loved this man for the first two books and this one was just... not it. He annoyed me more than I can express and I don't know how Laia dealt with him because I wouldn't have.
Laia, my girl, I love her. I wish she hadn't lost SO much. I'll always love my brave, stubborn girl. No complaints.
I have a love-hate relationship with Helene. I hated her the first two books but by the end, I've grown to love her so much. She is the one who lost everything. Every single thing and I will never forgive Sabaa for doing this to her. no mercy. Or should I say, "No Rehmat"? My heart breaks for her. I will love her forever, my girl. I hope in an alternate universe she gets everything she wants.
Harper, I don't know why but I could never get attached. I just couldn't. I love him with Helene and how he treats and cares for her but he was just there. I'm not sure what he was lacking that I barely cared for his existence but he was lacking. Nevertheless, what happened in the end of was rather tragic and I did cry for him too.
ElaisLaia were the only couple that made me feel anything and they made me feel a lot. I'd read it just for them.
In the end, I just have to say that the first two books were brilliant but the last two get worse and that's disappointing. This series could have ended with a trilogy if we didn't have unnecessary details and plot lines and that's what annoyed me. It felt dragged and it felt boring to read. But, if you're a fantasy lover and love romance and angst, pick it up!...more
This is the perfect book if you want to get into feminist literature.
This book talked about the different phases of a woman's life. From childhood toThis is the perfect book if you want to get into feminist literature.
This book talked about the different phases of a woman's life. From childhood to adulthood and the kinda difference there is between the treatment of a woman and a man.
The prologue itself sets the tone of the book. As we read further, we are also shown what the older generation of women in her family had to go through and how they had to sacrifice a lot for being born a certain gender. Similarly, the difference between the treatment of a son and daughter, how the society deems a daughter to be a "burden" while the sons are the "pride".
Through Kim Jiyoung, we see the kinda unsaid rules patriarchy enforces onto women, while no such rules are applied to men. You see Kim Jiyoung and her older sister helping their mother with house chores while the brother barely lifts a glass himself and isn't expected to either.
As Kim Jiyoung goes into adolescence, you see how little things done by men get overlooked but if women try to take a stand for themselves, they are punished for the same. The same theme continues for the rest of the book and without giving too much away, this book shows us the basic yet unseen ways in the society where women are made to feel less than. Where patriarchal norms don't just affect the living conditions, the mental health and the emotional health of women but also safety.
That being said, for me, this book was a little too on the nose for my liking. I'm someone who appreciates and enjoy metaphors, symbolism and other things books and while this had many of both, I still wanted more. I understand the need to not make it subtle since subtlety has gotten women nowhere but as someone who often reads feminist literature, this felt like something I would read when I was starting to get into feminist literature.
It's a good place to start, no doubt but there was nothing in this book that made me THINK. But, this is surely something I can have my mother and grandmother or the other men read for starters. This wasn't something extraordinary for me. It just reaffirmed my already existing thoughts and beliefs. Yes, it was very very relatable to me and being reaffirmed made me feel good but not something that I would dwell over or remember for a long time. ...more
This was better than anything I imagined it would be.
First, let's talk about everything it offered- Student x Professor FMC Serial Killer BDSM/B3.25
This was better than anything I imagined it would be.
First, let's talk about everything it offered- Student x Professor FMC Serial Killer BDSM/Bondage Boy obsessed Insta-love (but I enjoyed it) Third act break up (bug understandable)
And just so much more.
Eli is so so so hot, I can't put it in words. He is gentle, caring and says everything I ever want to hear but he's rough and dominating where it matters. Ruining his favorite tweed jacket to take care of her after he fucked her senseless in the library? That's my man. Holding her when she's breaking down? Asking her if there's anything that needs to be done for her? Not going away when she pushed him away multiple times? THAT'S MY MAN.
Another thing I really really really loved about this book was how well it handled BDSM. The use of safe words, the talk about what you like what you don't, the sex toys, THE PEGGING! It all had me screaming and they NEVER kept it boring. The smut did not get mundane for me and it was so refreshing to see something like this. Mind you, this book was very smutty. They are at it every 20 pages and I did not mind it. It was that well done. It catered to me in every way I'd like. Yes, I'm not big on smut so I skimmed a little but if you enjoy smut a lot, you'll definitely not skim it.
Bria, my girl Bria, I love you so much. You deserve everything Eli is and more. My girl has been through so much that she deserved every bit of it. I have nothing more to say about than that I absolutely LOVED her and she's one of my favorite FMCs now. You can't help but fall in love with her.
This is a GREAT book and I highly recommend it! For me, since I'm not big on very smutty books, I was skimming by the end but for people who enjoy reading a lot smut will DEFINITELY like it. I wish there was more focus on plot and more vulnerable moments between them but other than that, this was so good. Definitely pick it up. ...more
This was a cute little read, nothing too special but cute nonetheless. All her books after some point kinda feel the same but I don't hate it. Goo2.5
This was a cute little read, nothing too special but cute nonetheless. All her books after some point kinda feel the same but I don't hate it. Good one time read.
One thing I have noticed is how every FMC in Liang's book is poorer than the MMC and has to constantly prove herself. That theme is kinda like a constant in her books. I don't necessarily MIND it but I do want to see a rich FMC by Liang....more
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