The blurb of this interested me. Kinda reminded me of the show ‘The Sinner’.
I read 25% in one sitting as it started off strong. I did get a little boThe blurb of this interested me. Kinda reminded me of the show ‘The Sinner’.
I read 25% in one sitting as it started off strong. I did get a little bored after and stopped at 35%. I couldn’t make myself carry on reading (felt like nothing was really happening at that point). But I did want to finish this, so I got the audiobook and listened to the rest and it was great.
I really enjoyed listening to the narrators voices, the story was compelling and I had so many predictions about what was going to happen. I did guess most of it, (view spoiler)[ like Theo being the stalker etc (hide spoiler)] but I still enjoyed it nonetheless. I enjoyed how it all unfolded!
I preferred Alicia’s chapters more than Theo’.
I liked the deepness of the story -all the psychological aspects, I enjoyed the descriptions and stories of the paintings and loved the Greek methodology mentioned. However, I didn’t like how we were told a lot of small things that seemed like they were going to grow into something more but turned out to be nothing and unnecessary to the story.
I wasn’t necessarily happy with the last few chapters. But the ending was fine....more
It pains me to give a book written by Sarah such a low rating but I just can’t give it anything more. (The end few chapters actually made m3.75 Stars
It pains me to give a book written by Sarah such a low rating but I just can’t give it anything more. (The end few chapters actually made me rate this higher.)
I liked this. But I was bored most of the time. Bored enough to switch to audiobook 60% in. And I’ve never listened to a audiobook in my life until now. I actually really liked it. It made me pay more attention to the story and really listen to what was happening. I found out about the curse and a few chapters later went back to reading instead of listening. If it wasn’t for the audiobook I think it would have taken longer for me to carry on.
Still, this book took me months to read because I just wasn’t interested enough to want to carry on reading. I felt like I was reading a totally different book to everyone else.
Anyway, because of my love for Maas, I already knew most of the characters names and things that would happen. I knew it was a retelling of beauty and the beast, but I didn’t let myself see or read anything else too incriminating about what would happen.
So the story was practically all new to me.
At the start I didn’t think there was much of a storyline other than a forming love story -which, I honestly didn’t mind but I just expected...more.
And, I felt a slight... annoyance (?) throughout reading this book. I don’t know, it just felt like any old book -I don’t mean that necessarily in a bad way. It’s just... I kept reading but I wasn’t wowed like I expected to be.
It didn’t give me the same feelings as the Throne of Glass series did.
Characters: I think I liked Feyre but she annoyed me occasionally. She never listened.
I knew enough of this story to know not to get too attached to Tamlin. But I couldn’t help but like him. A little. I mean how could you not when the majority of this story was about him.
Lucien -I liked him, he made me smile.
Rhysand - oh the illustrious Rhys. I didn’t like him (at all, at first). I was patiently waiting to feel something more than physical attraction to him. But then surprisingly near the end -my thoughts did a 360 and I actually really liked him.
I’ve concluded that I liked the start and I really liked the end. Somewhere in the middle is where I didn’t like it so much. The last 10/15% of this book was great though. As good as ToG....more
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