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katamace's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, War, and Slavery
moonibean's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
liza5326's review against another edition
5.0
This is a little like The Lord of the Rings for me . . . . Starts off slow, but gets to a point and I am completely swept away and need more!! This book was filled with sexual tension that drove me insane. It was a will they or won't they. Then there were the betrayals, the backstabbing, the war. But the last couple chapters seriously got me, especially the last pages. I can't wait to see how the story ends in book 3!!!
waclements7's review against another edition
3.0
Re-read of the new edition. The second book holds up better than the first on a re-read.
I do have some issues: Govart. Leaving him alive was, as Damen thought, just a bad idea. Always a bad thing to leave an enemy like that alive, unless it happens to be a really obvious plot device. The use of pretentious language. This isn't the GRE. Sometimes a lesser word will do. I'm an English major, I have a good vocabulary. If it was every now and then, it would be one thing, but it's not. It's alienating and jars one from the reading.
I didn't read the bonus chapter. I started it, but it didn't really seem to add anything. I liked the additional story in the first book--it was interesting an added a behind-the-scenes look at friendship and background on Erasmus.
I do have some issues: Govart. Leaving him alive was, as Damen thought, just a bad idea. Always a bad thing to leave an enemy like that alive, unless it happens to be a really obvious plot device. The use of pretentious language. This isn't the GRE. Sometimes a lesser word will do. I'm an English major, I have a good vocabulary. If it was every now and then, it would be one thing, but it's not. It's alienating and jars one from the reading.
I didn't read the bonus chapter. I started it, but it didn't really seem to add anything. I liked the additional story in the first book--it was interesting an added a behind-the-scenes look at friendship and background on Erasmus.
hoppyread's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
martz's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
otherashley's review against another edition
3.0
Reading this second book in the series really makes you wish they just published them all in the same volume. The first book does not translate well on it's own on some of the more sensitive topics.
nyaraka's review
3.0
Rated "acceptable" because it was... acceptable. Not quite as pointlessly, gratuitously offensive as the first, and there are a semblance of real plot this time. Unfortunately, the plot is still obvious, which is troubling only because it is also incredibly boring.