Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Kingdom of Venom and Vows by Holly Renee

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spatterson7's review

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5


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drewg's review

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adventurous fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Great smut but not good plot 

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elskede's review

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adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25


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xapoptosisx's review

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book best in the series so far, I didn't expect to cry at a smut book but here we are because the final battle was devasting but so good and I'm excited to read more about thalia and sorin. 

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typedtruths's review

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dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

 my least favourite of the series so far. the plot to smut ratio is laughable

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countesslemongrab's review

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The world building was really missing - I still have so many unanswered questions and so many things that didn’t make sense to me by the end:
1 - mates were never explained, I understand the connection is deeper and by killing your mate you get death magic but there doesn’t seem to be anything else to it
2 - the prophecy was discussed multiple times but it didn’t really feel like it mattered at the end of the book
3 - the nymphs continued to refer to Adara as their Queen but there wasn’t much explanation 
4 - the battle with Gavril was supposed to be the major tipping point, but it was over in just a couple chapters, it was really lack luster for me
5 - in the prior book Adara gets a book about the history of the Starblessed, we never learn more about them other than they can use nature as a source for their magic but then that didn’t happen in the series
6 - similarly, Evren makes a big deal in the prior book that “knowledge is power” but then that’s never actually demonstrated 

I enjoyed the overall plot, but I feel like majority of this book revolves around sex when it could have been better had it focused in other things. 

The multiple POV elevated this book - had it just been from Adara’s perspective I would have probably rated this lower tbh. 

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alilbitofeveryth1ng's review

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75


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cryosphinx's review

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adventurous fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

What a let down. The first half of the book picks up where the second book left off and spends the time pivoting between the two POVs over a week or so, then gets wrapped up quickly then the rest of the book spends most of its time making up for the lack of smut in the first half. And boy, is it repetitive.  There's also a random other POV thrown in for one chapter that makes no sense as to why we have that shift. The ending conflict, while satisfying, is also over too soon. 

The book is still fast paced, and short, so like the two before it, not a lot of character development. I still might continue the series since it'll shift to Thalia, whom is my favorite. 

I read this series as palette cleansers and while it did it's job, I feel like I at least enjoyed the first two and this one was meh. I do appreciate Adara coming more into her own power so that gets a point.

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bakunzi1990's review

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adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Jorah!!! No oh my heart. I need more this book needed to be longer!! But damn it's so good. 5⭐ all the way I can't wait to read more on this world. Totally going to reread. I'm so excited for the spinoff in June ❤️

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chaoticreader22's review

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emotional relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5


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