A review by literaryhomeland
Awakened by Linsey Hall
4.0
Okay, so, let’s have a chat about Awakened.
Don’t get me wrong — the second book of the series was still incredibly good, but, personally, it just didn’t have the same draw and intrigue as the first book did for me, and the pace generally felt much slower.
Perhaps it was because I predicted the main plot twist in the first book so everything this book lead up to was already acknowledged in my mind, I’m not sure, but I also felt as if Hades’ POV in the second book was a lot more merged with Seraphina’s? Whether that was done on purpose to symbolise that he was adapting and beginning to embrace emotions, I’m not sure, but I just felt that in general, his narrative was a lot more informal compared to the first book and his and, because of it, Seraphina’s narrative voices felt merged together at points.
But, as I said at the beginning, that’s not saying that this is a bad book, I did still really enjoy it and I do still absolutely love the concept. I will still be reading the third book in the future to see how the trilogy concludes and will definitely look at the further instalments Hall has written in this universe, because it is incredibly fascinating and captivating. There were more typos in this one than the first — or from my observation, anyway — and it did slightly bug me when Chronos was spelt correctly on one line and without a letter two lines down, but it happens, no one’s perfect.
In book three, I would love to see more of Seraphina embracing herself as Persephone as she began to in book two, and I kind of need more of Lucifer and Alia’s backstory — honestly, where did those two go?!?! I need more of them.
I would still recommend this series, I’m just hoping that the final instalment draws me in the same way that book one did !
Don’t get me wrong — the second book of the series was still incredibly good, but, personally, it just didn’t have the same draw and intrigue as the first book did for me, and the pace generally felt much slower.
Perhaps it was because I predicted the main plot twist in the first book so everything this book lead up to was already acknowledged in my mind, I’m not sure, but I also felt as if Hades’ POV in the second book was a lot more merged with Seraphina’s? Whether that was done on purpose to symbolise that he was adapting and beginning to embrace emotions, I’m not sure, but I just felt that in general, his narrative was a lot more informal compared to the first book and his and, because of it, Seraphina’s narrative voices felt merged together at points.
But, as I said at the beginning, that’s not saying that this is a bad book, I did still really enjoy it and I do still absolutely love the concept. I will still be reading the third book in the future to see how the trilogy concludes and will definitely look at the further instalments Hall has written in this universe, because it is incredibly fascinating and captivating. There were more typos in this one than the first — or from my observation, anyway — and it did slightly bug me when Chronos was spelt correctly on one line and without a letter two lines down, but it happens, no one’s perfect.
In book three, I would love to see more of Seraphina embracing herself as Persephone as she began to in book two, and I kind of need more of Lucifer and Alia’s backstory — honestly, where did those two go?!?! I need more of them.
I would still recommend this series, I’m just hoping that the final instalment draws me in the same way that book one did !