A review by beckyyreadss
Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin

adventurous dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I honestly need to find a way to stop reading a series if I lose interest in this. I didn’t find the first book all that interesting and was sort of waiting for it to end and instead of going, I don’t think I'm going to like this series, I went and read the second one and oh my god, it was so slow.  

This book picks up where it left off in the first book, Lou, Reid, Coco and Ansel are on the run from covens, kingdom and the church after narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Dames Blanches. To elude the scores of witches and throngs of chasseurs at their heels, Lou and Reid need allies. Strong ones, but protection always comes with a price, and the group is forced to embrace on separate quests to build their forces, as Lou and Reid try to close the widening rift between them, the dastardly Morgane baits them into a lethal game of cat and mouse that threatens to destroy them. 

Okay, you know this book is bad when you are rooting for the villain to kill the MCs. The only one I liked out of this whole book was Ansel and well, we all saw what happened there. I just felt like this book was building and building for something to happen that never did. If someone was to ask me what this book was about tomorrow, I would have no clue whatsoever. I didn’t feel like there was any character development or progress between the couples that were formed in the first book. I didn’t understand or care for the plot again because both MCs drove me nuts. Expect for Lou and Reid, I remember two characters and that because they carried the book being Coco and Ansel. I felt like I was getting whiplash with both going against their word every chapter. I wanted them to each love each other and stick together or try and kill each other and again, the miscommunication trope drove this book into the dirt. This book could have been 100 pages long and it would have more plot that the 500-page book I've just finished.  

The only reason this didn’t get one star is because of the dual POV.  
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