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A review by katyanaish
Grave Dance by Kalayna Price
4.0
This was a fun second book in the series. Overall, as I mentioned in my review for the first book, this is a world that feels largely familiar, with a few tailored details... but it works for me. And it was great getting to see more of the world of Faerie. I will be interested in finding out more of Alex's heritage, as the series goes on.
I'm wary, though, of the love triangle. Love triangles have just never been my thing. Most of the time, it is because there is an obvious right choice, and we are just drawing out the inevitable... and the heroine seems lame for being undecided. In this series, prior to the second half of this book, I thought that was the case here - Death was, to me, the obvious choice. But I'll admit that Falin took several big strides forward to me in the latter half of this book, and I can see him as a reasonable choice. So I will say that this feels like a legit triangle - 2 fair options. But I am still wary because... love triangles are just always a recipe for giant smoking piles of melodramatic angst. We'll see how it goes.
I will say, though, that I wasn't a fan of
But that said, I am still definitely having fun with the series, and plan to read on.
I'm wary, though, of the love triangle. Love triangles have just never been my thing. Most of the time, it is because there is an obvious right choice, and we are just drawing out the inevitable... and the heroine seems lame for being undecided. In this series, prior to the second half of this book, I thought that was the case here - Death was, to me, the obvious choice. But I'll admit that Falin took several big strides forward to me in the latter half of this book, and I can see him as a reasonable choice. So I will say that this feels like a legit triangle - 2 fair options. But I am still wary because... love triangles are just always a recipe for giant smoking piles of melodramatic angst. We'll see how it goes.
I will say, though, that I wasn't a fan of
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the "warning flag" we got in this book, with the corrupted collector / changeling love story. Firstly, it felt half-assed: we know NOTHING of their circumstances. I mean, really. Drawing conclusions like that would be like me saying "well, Romeo is a boy, and Juliet is a girl, so clearly, being in love with any boy will always end in tragedy and death." No. Could Edana make the collector solid when they touched? That right there would be a big difference. I would guess no, since the collector was SHOCKED when Alex made him solid. If the author is using this to set up "and this is why the two of you can never be" (as the one collector said), then she needed to give the readers more details on their situation. More parallels. Right now, we got squat. That on top of some implication that people who were trapped in the dance were put there as some kind of "jail" (the fairies at the Bloom told Alex this), so there is reason to believe that Edana wasn't much of a good guy to begin with. Anyway, eh. I just wasn't fond of the way this was suddenly treated as a lesson for Death / Alex, with all the subtlety of an anvil to the head, with no actual reasoning given. *shrug*But that said, I am still definitely having fun with the series, and plan to read on.