Okay, first of all, this book was amazing. If I hadn’t been exhausted from other things happening, I would’ve finished it in a few hours. Second, the Game of Thrones comparisons couldn’t be further from the truth. Yes it has dragons, but that doesn’t mean Game of Thrones is in anyway similar. With that being said, it was addicting, it was shocking, it was incredible! I honestly hated putting it down and couldn’t wait until I could pick it up again.
Wins:
-the world building. There is no beginning and end to how incredible this world was. From the dragons, to the country Rosaria created, down to the history of the country. It was all insanely amazing. I want to live there!
-the characters. Literally from chapter one I was in love with our main characters. Lee and Annie were layer after layer of creation, their backgrounds heartbreaking. Annie’s character arc is even just the first book has got to be one of my favorite character arcs of all time! I was rooting for her the entire time! It was super conflicting because I loved Lee just as much, he had almost an as good character arc as Annie, but in a very different way. His childhood was taken in front of his eyes, and turned out to be a lie, and he had to handle it.
Along with this, I have to praise the supporting characters. Cor, Duck, Crissa. All of them were full of depth and stories. You get super close to them, and some of them complicate the main romance, which absolutely added everything to me. Their personalities and interactions we’re phenomenal. And shoutout to Crissa and Annie for being some badass female characters for girls to look up to! Loved it!
Even our villains were spectacular! Forcing one of the main characters to trust them just to mess everything up. Ugh! I was here for all of it!
-the action packed fight scenes. The first one was insane. I was open mouthed, shocked, already ready to be broken hearted. It was high flying action (literally). And it continued to come back throughout the novel in the competition to be the best-of-the-best, and even beyond that!
-those last 100 pages. Omfg omfg omfg. Heart breaking all the way around, addicting, didn’t want to put it down. The conflict was insane!
Opportunities
-there were some very long run on sentences that got confusing, hopefully that’s fixed in the final novel, but I didn’t feel like it took away from the novel too much.
-I want more from Pythians. It would’ve been incredible to see where they’re at, so hopefully for book 2!
-WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG FOR BOOK 2???
All in all, it was a spectacular debut, and I’m already prepared to shelf it as an all time favorite. I will be purchasing a finished copy when it comes out, and I look forward to rereading the finished book, that was absolutely insane, and I loved every second of madness!