A review by nikkieliz13
The Fae & The Fallen by Brittni Chenelle

3.0

Complete Series Review
Rating: 3.5 Stars
POV(s): Dual—First Person
Relationship: M/F
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Romance

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I enjoyed this series, but it wasn’t without its faults. My main issue had to do with the characters, and not in the way you might expect.

I actually liked the characters, and this includes the antagonist (he’d make the perfect MMC in a dark romance—damaged, touch starved, with a dash of psychotic tendencies? Sign me up.) No, instead my issue is that:

1) Outside of our main characters, a lot of the secondary characters from book one (and even two) were gone and replaced with new characters in book three, as if this was a tv show where the actors had scheduling conflicts that prevented them from reprising their roles.

2) Relationships—platonic, romantic, familial, etc.—hardly ever developed on page. There's a lot of telling instead of showing, especially in the cases of Reina and Kai’s romance and Reina and Bri’s friendship. There were actually two relationships whose on-page development I found to be done well—Reina and Yemoja’s familial relationship, and oddly enough, Kai’s “friendship” with the antagonist.

Overall, I did genuinely enjoy this reading experience, and would recommend it to others.

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Title:[b: “The Fae & The Fallen (Gifted Fae Academy #1)” by Brittni Chenelle]
Interconnected Series: Yes
Standalone: No—Trilogy
Cliffhanger: End of books #1-2
HEA:

Spoiler

End of book #3

Triggers: Yes

Spoiler

Grief, Abuse

Tags/Tropes:
➢ Academy-Romance
➢ Childhood-Companions
➢ Childhood-Crush
➢ Friends-to-Enemies-to-Lovers
➢ High-School