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martine3's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
It was a great and engaging book but gosh I have never seen such a group of frustrating, prejudiced, and stupid characters as the high fae. The problem is that while Rooke was an amazing heroine, the other likeable characters were Firna, the Goblin royal family, the woman from the orphanage and that's it. Soren and Tauron were vile, racist, and dumb as shit and frankly this kingdom didn't deserve anything and I sometimes wished Rooke let them burn. It's no wonder that the regent's and Kharl's schemes were so successful when the opposition was so deep in their shit that they would sacrifice their own people to save their own prejudice and high ground. And Airlie's redemption doesn't work for me as being so desperate to have a baby does not compensate for being a racist, dumb, elitist bitch. Honestly, Rooke is a better person than me because I would have probably left her to deliver her spawn and save her husband herself since she was so superior. And I didn't appreciate the endless details of childbirth and care as if her being a MOM erases all of her shit, it does not. I am not sure how much grovelling would be necessary to redeem these assholes and if any would be.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Blood, Pregnancy, and War