House of Ash and Shadow (Gilded City, 1)
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Amazing start to a new series
First year highlight! I don’t have any words for this book…
The world building, the story and the characters were such amazing!😭 The enemies to lovers and love triangle are my favorite tropes of all time and this book has both… This book was just perfekt 🎀
I’m always very sceptical when I see books labelled as Fantasy with a page count smaller than 400-500. I simply don’t think it is possible to come up with an immersive world, realistic character development and more than surface level relationships between the characters in just roughly 300 pages - and I remain confirmed. I think this could have been cute as a simple romance book but the fantasy elements made it mediocre at best. To me this is just another case of writing fantasy just for the sake of being able to label it a Romantasy, because that’s what’s selling best right now. I really liked the first half of the story, Fallon is a very likeable main character you can easily sympathise with but some of the other characters simply lacked any kind of depth and so did the story and plot line. Especially the last third or so of this book was just a mess. Things happened just for the sake of them happening. What irritated me the most was probably how after the first Nightling attack absolutely no body spoke of it again, it was not made relevant to the story, none of the characters acknowledged that it happened (except for the day right after) and than it just happened again. You would think, that, after an attack not happening in a considerably long time, precautions would be taken.
Description
Posts
Amazing start to a new series
First year highlight! I don’t have any words for this book…
The world building, the story and the characters were such amazing!😭 The enemies to lovers and love triangle are my favorite tropes of all time and this book has both… This book was just perfekt 🎀
I’m always very sceptical when I see books labelled as Fantasy with a page count smaller than 400-500. I simply don’t think it is possible to come up with an immersive world, realistic character development and more than surface level relationships between the characters in just roughly 300 pages - and I remain confirmed. I think this could have been cute as a simple romance book but the fantasy elements made it mediocre at best. To me this is just another case of writing fantasy just for the sake of being able to label it a Romantasy, because that’s what’s selling best right now. I really liked the first half of the story, Fallon is a very likeable main character you can easily sympathise with but some of the other characters simply lacked any kind of depth and so did the story and plot line. Especially the last third or so of this book was just a mess. Things happened just for the sake of them happening. What irritated me the most was probably how after the first Nightling attack absolutely no body spoke of it again, it was not made relevant to the story, none of the characters acknowledged that it happened (except for the day right after) and than it just happened again. You would think, that, after an attack not happening in a considerably long time, precautions would be taken.