Reviews

Forbidden Fae by Vera Rivers

yssim21's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

The story plot it's getting better with  each book and more interesting , the characters are very loveable 

magik_the_cat's review

4.0

This one suffered the same fate of too much repetition as the first book. I also didn't really care for how much circular thinking Ellie had about whether or not Ren loved her. I think it might've felt better had we seen his pulling away rather than have a time skip from book 1 end and "so yeah he's distant now." Like I get the circular thinking. Anxiety is a bitch but it rang kind of hollow to me because it felt very out of the blue considering how book 1 ended. The book got a lot better once Ellie was out exploring the world and I'm very excited to see what happens next.

anitak88's review

2.0

I was really disappointed in this one. I really had faith in the author that there would be more depth this the story this time around but it is still so surface level, not even some twists and turns like the first one. Also, most of the story was pure telling rather than showing and I just can't do it, it take so much away from the story when the author does that. I also found that there was no real variation when it came to her telling phrases, she used the same descriptive words over and over to the point where they just lost all meaning.

Over all, I will not be continuing on with this series.

ycnaf's review

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

alyssanwelt's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

thecozyreaderwbo's review

1.0

DNF
The first book sucked me in with that amazing opening.
However, this book was just a bunch of the same words repeated over and over and over again.
Seriously, at one point I genuinely thought I was re-reading the same chapter again.
And for the love of the Goddess why must they constantly argue about it not being Ellie's fault?!!!
And why must Ellie constantly explain how withdrawn Ren was?!!?!
The dreams are another example of using the same words over again. And the lovemaking scenes....
It's almost like Vera decided it was too much work to write original scenes, copied and pasted previous scenes and made very minor changes.
Then Ellie returns to her previous town....how is that supposed to prevent the prophecy from happening?! It is the place where her dreams are taking place. Seems like the last place she should be going if she wanted to protect everyone.
That's when I stopped reading.
It's really a shame. I thought I'd found a series with a good amount of books to read.

tayyyylaaahhh's review

3.0

2.5 rounded up.

fictionalrebels's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

ashreads11's review

5.0

This series is addicting I finished book 1 within a day and then finished this one the same day. Addicting like a drug. I need to know more!!.

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