The kinder poison
I was ready for a hunger games wannabe disaster that didn’t interest me in the slightest, but from the first few pages I was absolutely hooked. The Kinder Poison felt like a book I had read before. A contest for royalty where only on person could win, and a magic system that felt a lot like the Three Dark Crowns series, but I found myself pleasantly surprised at how unique it actually was.
Wins
-the magic system. It wasn’t anything spectacular, but it did out to be super interesting and well crafted
-world building. I absolutely loved the world, another thing that surprised me. The world was very well built and the dynamic was different than from what I had read.
-the plot. Like I said, I was ready for a hunger games wannabe, but it was different than I had expected. It turned out to be a really good, faced paced interesting read.
-the characters. Our supporting characters were fun to read. Maia was such a unique character that i didn’t expect to like, Melia was super cute, Marcus was fun as a polar opposite to the rest, and I loved Jet from first meeting him.
Opportunities
-Zahru was a lot. She was extremely dumb, irritating and didn’t do anything right until the last couple of pages. She was super trusting in the worst way, as well as gullible and for 90% of the book I was cheering against her
-insta love. I get tired of how often the insta love trope is used. And for it to happen twice in one book was frustrating and a forced eye roll. I’ve seen the two siblings pining after the same girl too many times and I just don’t care for it
-the authors writing style. I didn’t hate it towards the end, but in the beginning we would take a lot of sudden sharp turns that really didn’t make sense, and there were a lot of times that the main character would say something and then something else entirely different would happen and it was hard to follow and confusing at times
If you can get past the annoying romance in this book, it is a funny fun, fast paced enjoyable read. I’ll probably reread it soon just so I can understand the parts that were a bit confusing. I am looking forward to book 2 that was obviously led into, and hopefully we get a release date soon. I definitely recommend this for fans of young adult that don’t mind troupes too much!
I was ready for a hunger games wannabe disaster that didn’t interest me in the slightest, but from the first few pages I was absolutely hooked. The Kinder Poison felt like a book I had read before. A contest for royalty where only on person could win, and a magic system that felt a lot like the Three Dark Crowns series, but I found myself pleasantly surprised at how unique it actually was.
Wins
-the magic system. It wasn’t anything spectacular, but it did out to be super interesting and well crafted
-world building. I absolutely loved the world, another thing that surprised me. The world was very well built and the dynamic was different than from what I had read.
-the plot. Like I said, I was ready for a hunger games wannabe, but it was different than I had expected. It turned out to be a really good, faced paced interesting read.
-the characters. Our supporting characters were fun to read. Maia was such a unique character that i didn’t expect to like, Melia was super cute, Marcus was fun as a polar opposite to the rest, and I loved Jet from first meeting him.
Opportunities
-Zahru was a lot. She was extremely dumb, irritating and didn’t do anything right until the last couple of pages. She was super trusting in the worst way, as well as gullible and for 90% of the book I was cheering against her
-insta love. I get tired of how often the insta love trope is used. And for it to happen twice in one book was frustrating and a forced eye roll. I’ve seen the two siblings pining after the same girl too many times and I just don’t care for it
-the authors writing style. I didn’t hate it towards the end, but in the beginning we would take a lot of sudden sharp turns that really didn’t make sense, and there were a lot of times that the main character would say something and then something else entirely different would happen and it was hard to follow and confusing at times
If you can get past the annoying romance in this book, it is a funny fun, fast paced enjoyable read. I’ll probably reread it soon just so I can understand the parts that were a bit confusing. I am looking forward to book 2 that was obviously led into, and hopefully we get a release date soon. I definitely recommend this for fans of young adult that don’t mind troupes too much!