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A review by freadomlibrary
Swear by Nina Malkin
2.0
Check out my series review here: https://freadomlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/series-review-swoon-duology-by-nina-malkin/
Critically
Plot – 2 out of 5 stars
I was so bored the entire time, it’s super drawn out, slow, just plain weird, uncomfortably graphic, flat, there’s a lot of plot holes, it deals with ghosts, goddesses and just inappropriate themes
Writing Style – 3 out of 5 stars
really long and dragged out, scattered and confusing, simple, descriptive, really strange and weird, lost the intensity, boring
Characters – 2 out of 5 stars
Yeah, this part of the book didn’t improve at all from the first book. Dice was still immature, still naive. Kind of meek and quiet. She’s trying to have a “normal” life after what happened in the first book which just puts her in a state of denial because her life isn’t normal and that’s just what she has to deal with. Her thought process was just annoying and I was bored. By her, by the story, and by the side characters. Sin was just bleh now. All the mystery and enigma of him is gone and he’s just another bland character. He’s rude and kind of sexist to be honest. He’s still manipulative but the mystery of it and the intriguing aspect is gone and I was bored out of my mind. The romance is completely unbelievable. I didn’t like it in the first book, it felt super unfounded and insta love like. So since the basis of this book is to reunite them, I wasn’t at all interested. And the new side characters introduced were bland and unnecessary and it dragged the plot on too long for no real reason.
Emotionally
I didn’t realize that this series could get worse or that I could be more disappointed, I was wrong. The first book has nothing on the clusterfuck that this one is.
The plot is boring, just plain boring. We follow Dice, six months after losing her virginity to Sin followed by his disappearance from her life. She’s trying her best to have a normal life, ignoring her abilities but that doesn’t really work out for her. The whole point of this book was to give the two main characters a happily ever after. Since I didn’t really care for the romance at all in the first book because it was awfully developed, that made this book long, boring and completely pointless. There’s so many crazy things that happen that I don’t really understand what the whole point of it is. A new ghost was introduced to create problems and tension. She kidnaps people and tears apart the romance and I just didn’t understand why it was necessary. Then she comes back to life to cause my problems. And then the main character has like a dream or a vision or something really freaking weird where she encounters a bunch of goddesses where they like grant her powers or help her accept her creepy powers. I still don’t even know what the hell that meant or what the point of it was. And then there was this part about a band. A group of the characters got together and made a band and played some gigs and I just don’t know. All these things mixed together and nothing really connected. And the worst part is that after all the trouble they went through did nothing to the ending! They ended up doing nothing at all to fix the situation in the end!
Dice was just plain boring. There’s nothing wrong with her, she actually kind of manages to get some of her shit together but only becomes she wants to be with Sin and I don’t think that’ s a good motivation to do anything. Just to be with a guy? Who died a bunch of years ago and possessed your cousin and killed some people? Like, come on. The new side characters were just convenient to have, so no one was left alone and things ended with a bow wrapped around it and I was not a fan.
Overall, I didn’t enjoy this series as much as I wanted to or as much as I expected to. The first book was okay, even if a little far fetched. The characters were bland and the romance wasn’t believable but the story was interesting. The second book was a waste. There was no need for it in the series, or to make it as long as it was. It was boring and pointless. I wouldn’t recommend this series.
Critically
Plot – 2 out of 5 stars
I was so bored the entire time, it’s super drawn out, slow, just plain weird, uncomfortably graphic, flat, there’s a lot of plot holes, it deals with ghosts, goddesses and just inappropriate themes
Writing Style – 3 out of 5 stars
really long and dragged out, scattered and confusing, simple, descriptive, really strange and weird, lost the intensity, boring
Characters – 2 out of 5 stars
Yeah, this part of the book didn’t improve at all from the first book. Dice was still immature, still naive. Kind of meek and quiet. She’s trying to have a “normal” life after what happened in the first book which just puts her in a state of denial because her life isn’t normal and that’s just what she has to deal with. Her thought process was just annoying and I was bored. By her, by the story, and by the side characters. Sin was just bleh now. All the mystery and enigma of him is gone and he’s just another bland character. He’s rude and kind of sexist to be honest. He’s still manipulative but the mystery of it and the intriguing aspect is gone and I was bored out of my mind. The romance is completely unbelievable. I didn’t like it in the first book, it felt super unfounded and insta love like. So since the basis of this book is to reunite them, I wasn’t at all interested. And the new side characters introduced were bland and unnecessary and it dragged the plot on too long for no real reason.
Emotionally
Spoiler
I was extremely and completely disappointed by this duology. I was excited to reread the first book but it wasn’t what I remembered and the second book didn’t help matters.I didn’t realize that this series could get worse or that I could be more disappointed, I was wrong. The first book has nothing on the clusterfuck that this one is.
The plot is boring, just plain boring. We follow Dice, six months after losing her virginity to Sin followed by his disappearance from her life. She’s trying her best to have a normal life, ignoring her abilities but that doesn’t really work out for her. The whole point of this book was to give the two main characters a happily ever after. Since I didn’t really care for the romance at all in the first book because it was awfully developed, that made this book long, boring and completely pointless. There’s so many crazy things that happen that I don’t really understand what the whole point of it is. A new ghost was introduced to create problems and tension. She kidnaps people and tears apart the romance and I just didn’t understand why it was necessary. Then she comes back to life to cause my problems. And then the main character has like a dream or a vision or something really freaking weird where she encounters a bunch of goddesses where they like grant her powers or help her accept her creepy powers. I still don’t even know what the hell that meant or what the point of it was. And then there was this part about a band. A group of the characters got together and made a band and played some gigs and I just don’t know. All these things mixed together and nothing really connected. And the worst part is that after all the trouble they went through did nothing to the ending! They ended up doing nothing at all to fix the situation in the end!
Dice was just plain boring. There’s nothing wrong with her, she actually kind of manages to get some of her shit together but only becomes she wants to be with Sin and I don’t think that’ s a good motivation to do anything. Just to be with a guy? Who died a bunch of years ago and possessed your cousin and killed some people? Like, come on. The new side characters were just convenient to have, so no one was left alone and things ended with a bow wrapped around it and I was not a fan.
Overall, I didn’t enjoy this series as much as I wanted to or as much as I expected to. The first book was okay, even if a little far fetched. The characters were bland and the romance wasn’t believable but the story was interesting. The second book was a waste. There was no need for it in the series, or to make it as long as it was. It was boring and pointless. I wouldn’t recommend this series.