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A review by melethwi
A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Gonna brain dump as I just finished the book and it’s way late past my self imposed bedtime on a weeknight. 😭
First off I want to say that I am a FOOL for marketing and I bought this book because the hardcover is so beautiful. But….
Freya = Insufferable
Bjorn = Insufferable
Almost every character we see for more than 1 scene = insufferable
If you love being told everything and shown nothing, this book is for you. At some points the writing was tolerable, but at other points it felt so sterile- an entire battle condensed into two paragraphs?????
While the whole theme of the book is that Freya never gets to make her own decisions, I got SO sick of everything HAPPENING to her and then her complaining that it was her fault and she was a terrible person.
2/10 world building, this book could’ve benefited from 50-75 extra pages explaining Freya’s life and home, otherwise I felt no connection to her family and didn’t understand why we cared so much about a lot of this stuff. Only redeeming quality was Norse mythology and imagining them in Skyrim.
The steamy scenes were okay I guess. Didn’t really appreciate how we went from zero to insta-love AND insta-lust, but okay. Bjorn is a really sexless name IMO (sorry to all the Bjorns out there, I just kept thinking about the BabyBjorn carrier)
Every plot twist in this book was predictable and I saw it all coming at the first foreshadowing…. Yet Freya saw none of it and we have to watch her walk headfirst into so many situations that could have been avoided.
I need more consistent dialogue because we alternate between short, clipped, old Norse style dialogue and “my mother would’ve smacked me upside the head” 2020s dialogue…. Which was really disconcerting.
OVERALL ✨✨✨✨
The good thing I will say about this book is that I could barely put it down. It was really a page turner, maybe because the pace is breakneck, or maybe because it’s like watching a train wreck. You just can’t look away. I will probably read the next book especially if the pages are glittery again because mid romantasy is my guilty pleasure.
First off I want to say that I am a FOOL for marketing and I bought this book because the hardcover is so beautiful. But….
Freya = Insufferable
Bjorn = Insufferable
Almost every character we see for more than 1 scene = insufferable
If you love being told everything and shown nothing, this book is for you. At some points the writing was tolerable, but at other points it felt so sterile- an entire battle condensed into two paragraphs?????
While the whole theme of the book is that Freya never gets to make her own decisions, I got SO sick of everything HAPPENING to her and then her complaining that it was her fault and she was a terrible person.
2/10 world building, this book could’ve benefited from 50-75 extra pages explaining Freya’s life and home, otherwise I felt no connection to her family and didn’t understand why we cared so much about a lot of this stuff. Only redeeming quality was Norse mythology and imagining them in Skyrim.
The steamy scenes were okay I guess. Didn’t really appreciate how we went from zero to insta-love AND insta-lust, but okay. Bjorn is a really sexless name IMO (sorry to all the Bjorns out there, I just kept thinking about the BabyBjorn carrier)
Every plot twist in this book was predictable and I saw it all coming at the first foreshadowing…. Yet Freya saw none of it and we have to watch her walk headfirst into so many situations that could have been avoided.
I need more consistent dialogue because we alternate between short, clipped, old Norse style dialogue and “my mother would’ve smacked me upside the head” 2020s dialogue…. Which was really disconcerting.
OVERALL ✨✨✨✨
The good thing I will say about this book is that I could barely put it down. It was really a page turner, maybe because the pace is breakneck, or maybe because it’s like watching a train wreck. You just can’t look away. I will probably read the next book especially if the pages are glittery again because mid romantasy is my guilty pleasure.