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The Emperor of Evening Stars by Laura Thalassa

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hanschub's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

loved reading a book from des’s pov and learning about what he went through/how he felt when he was away from callie. this one really paints the picture for how des grew up and what happened in his past that made him who he is. i cannot wait to start the last book!

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readyforit's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

4.5⭐️2.5🌶️(one graphic scene from book 1 retold from des’ pov)

Call me crazy but this was my favorite in the series so far! We got some much-needed backstory on des, his parents, his childhood, his friendship with Malakai, his time in the brotherhood and the army, and it picks up with Callie originally calling the bargainer. My only complaint is I wish the book were longer! I really love how the author writes from des’ pov and I really enjoyed his internal monologue much more than Callie’s. Maybe it’s just more fun to read the perspective of the “villain.” We get a lot of repeat convos between him and Callie but with so much extra flavor from his internal monologue and he is SO much more obsessed with her than I thought😩, what a hopeless romantic. I honestly could reread all the books from his perspective.

I remember feeling how the first book was just missing something, especially from the climax/action at the end and I believe it was des’ perspective! We got a lot more action and how his powers work.

I felt like this book was more well-written than the others too, and maybe that has to do with des’ vocabulary since he’s so old? Idk but I enjoyed! Btw I did the math and our shadow daddy is 269 at the end of the book.

The narrator they got for des for the audiobook was AMAZING! This was my first audiobook by him and I’m going to be searching for more. If the last book is good I think I could see myself rereading the series!

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vreyna20_2004's review

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Okay so…why did I like this? Like the first two books I LOATHE but this book I ate it up. I think Laura can write guy’s point of view because writing Callie did not go well. She kept annoying me but Desmond. Everything about his point of view made my heart wrung. I think if the story was in Desmond’s pov I would’ve actually enjoyed it. Maybe. There is things that Des does that irks me like him saying how much he loves her and then afterwards says things like how young she is and talking about how she’s a teenager and blah blah blah. What the fuck?! Now onto things I enjoyed.

I love hearing him say that he loves her just hearing it made me smile AND NOTHING MORE as it’s still weird that they knew each other when she was fucking SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. Anyway, moving on. The scene of Callie being sick and him taking care of her and how he needed to go but didn’t want to leave her alone so he disguises himself so he can still take care of her. That was cute but he ruined it by talking about how young she is. I did wish that Desmond resisted a bit more like tried everything not to fall for her cause it felt so fast in my opinion which also makes sense since it’s a novella. But anyway, he went from hating the idea of having a mortal mate to going to Earth to falling for her I just wished we could’ve seen more of him not wanting to have mortal mate instead of him just going from “eugh I don’t want to be seem weak with a mortal mate” to “I want my mate now” like it was a switch.

But yeah, I only enjoyed this novella, and I don’t typically like novellas so me enjoying this just speaks volumes.

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hannahs_library__'s review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I stand by my statement that each book gets better but I was still rolling my eyes quite a bit. Idk I think I got the ick in book 1 and can't move on 🥲

The audiobook definitely made me like it a little bit more!

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