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City of Gods and Monsters by Kayla Edwards

4 reviews

livetgjennomb_ker's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

As a book its fine. I understand where people are coming from when they say it feels like CC, but it’s also very different in its own way. 

There’s a bit of editing stuff that’s not been caught (the star having seven points and then two pages later it’s eight), and repetitive phrase usage, which is unfortunate because having that in order would likely have bumped it up a bit. 

In a way it’s a mystery as well, but it feels a little too obvious at times, none of the twists come early enough to catch you off guard. 

As for the main couple… meh. They’re both fairly flat characters in my opinion, but Loren takes the cake. Also can we talk about Lola??? Where does that even come from? It’s so confusing. And hello?? They’re SO young. It’s wild. Darien keeps going on about his “long life” and how he’s the best to ever do it (it being assassin for hire) and I’m over here like my guy you are 24? Chill. 

Also the dog dies (and is revived) and there’s a LITERAL deus ex machina moment which… nah not for me, I don’t think


All in all, I likely won’t be reading the next one
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elntastic's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-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

4.5

I could not put this book down! I loved the world building and the story line. But most of all I loved Darien and his character development. 
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His growing love for Loren is written like a dream. The only things I didn’t like were that the main focus was on the romantic relationship and not as much on the plot. I also found it hard to believe how quickly Loren healed in the end even though she was covered in bruises and scrapes and almost drowned…I also didn’t understand why the Widow said that she would die if she used her power but then ends up being absolutely fine after having used it. 
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crinkledmochi's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

While I really enjoyed some of the world building in this book at times it felt like I was reading horrible fanfic on Wattpad. 

It was an entertaining read though! 
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dkgreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

4.75

Um, WOW! This was so, SO GOOD!!! I sincerely hope the author continues this series because I am 100% INVESTED. With unique world building and nonstop action, this book was seriously hard to put down! I even cried, TWICE (why you gotta do Singer like that, huh?)! And the final conflict was so TENSE and HEARTBREAKING I could hardly breathe while reading it. The only reasons this isn’t a 5 star book is because Loren did a couple of annoyingly stupid things that got on my nerves and because the epilogue left me with BIG questions. 
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