A review by haleymicheled
King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson
3.0
This is my first time reading this author and while I enjoyed the story overall (it ticks off a lot of my favorite things) I was a little underwhelmed. The pacing of the plot was bizarre and the ending felt like a jumble of things happened at once without me really understanding what was happening. The bones were good, but I wish this story had been a bit more fleshed out.
The main characters jumped super quickly from hatred to adoration (in an unbelievable way) and the plot lost me around the halfway mark. Do I still love a good enemies to lovers book? Of course. Am I itching to read another from this author soon? Not really. I think I wish this book had more meat to it so that characters could have been explored, relationships could have been developed (both romantically but also side ones as well), and that the lore of this world had been given more space to be unfolded. I know there's technically a first book in this series, but it's marketed as a standalone so I shouldn't need to read that one to understand this one.
All in all, probably a 2.5 star for me, round up to 3 for GR.
The main characters jumped super quickly from hatred to adoration (in an unbelievable way) and the plot lost me around the halfway mark. Do I still love a good enemies to lovers book? Of course. Am I itching to read another from this author soon? Not really. I think I wish this book had more meat to it so that characters could have been explored, relationships could have been developed (both romantically but also side ones as well), and that the lore of this world had been given more space to be unfolded. I know there's technically a first book in this series, but it's marketed as a standalone so I shouldn't need to read that one to understand this one.
All in all, probably a 2.5 star for me, round up to 3 for GR.