River of Shadows (Underworld Gods)

I wanted this book soooooo badly to be good. It was promising because the world and mythology is intriguing and completely different from what I’ve read so far. I wanted to like Hanna so badly but she has no real character development and plainly said- she’s boring. So so boring. The author describes her as feisty but that’s just not true. Death is sexy- and that’s it. They both f*** and he’s suddenly soooo obsessed and possessed by is own di**. Sorry but NO. The moment she’s in that castle NOTHING happens beside him f**** her from behind and saying real CRINGE-worthy shit like “cream”. I just can’t. I waited for the plot to resurface because there was some good Basis from the first 100 pages but as you may have guesses: NO damn chance.

Beauty and the beast meets hades and Persephone

Wirklich angenehmer Read. Das Buch fängt etwas flach an; Hannahs Vater stirbt und sie fliegt zurück in die Heimat um der Beerdigung beizuwohnen. Danach überschlagen sich die Ereignisse und Sie findet sich inmitten einer Welt von Schamanen, Göttern und Hexen wieder. Gemeinsam mit Rasmus macht Sie sich auf den Weg ihren, vermeintlich toten Vater wiederzufinden und dabei reisen Sie ins das Reich des Todes… und der Tod ist zum dahinschmelzen 😩…. Ich hätte am Anfang des Buchs nicht erwartet wie es sich entwickelt, aber ich liebe es!!! Die Parallelen zu Beauty and the beast sind schon enorm, aber die Protagonistin selbst macht sich teilweise darüber lustig, was das Ganze wirklich auflockert. Ich fang dann mal nahtlos den 2. Teil an

Eine tolle Mischung aus, dark Romance, Fantasy und Mythologie. Ich hatte wirklich Spaß Spaß beim Lesen und freue mich auf die nächsten Bände

3,5 Gerade als es wirklich spannend wurde, war das Buch zu Ende… Der Einstieg war mir etwas zu hektisch und chaotisch. Auch der Rest verlief sehr schnell und ohne große Ausführungen was ich sehr schade fand. Es ging zwar sehr schnell aber gleichzeitig ist irgendwie nichts passiert. Hoffe in Band 2 geht es nicht im gleichen Tempo weiter

This was somehow underwhelming. Don’t get me wrong - I had my fun. But it was not what I expected, or hoped, it to be. Hanna is a Social Media Manager From L.A. thrown into the Underworld without knowing that it even existed. Whilst she was not super annoying or dumb or anything particularly off-throwing, I somehow did not connect to her. I’m hoping to see some more fight insight of her in the next book. After all she’s supposed to be a pro at combat techniques. Death on the other hand really is an intriguing character. We learned basically nothing about his character but enjoyed him nonetheless. But generally this book introduced tons of different aspects about the world and plotlines which all weren’t really discovered and explained that much. I desperately hope that this was just the beginning to the story and things will get exciting in the next book. Cause this was so slow and unexciting? Nothing really happened over the course of a bit over 300 pages. Especially once Hanna was with Death in his home, the plot did not develop. And besides their interactions being entertaining there is basically no deeper connection besides awesome sex between them. At least as far as I as a reader know. They never interacted besides the nightly fucking session where things got exciting. And if I say exciting I mean it. Who knew Death is hot? He is a dirty talker and fucks like the god he is. The smut was honestly the best part of the book. So generally the writing was good. The world idea and building so far is decent and intriguing. But since their neither is a proper plot pacing and development nor any kind of developing relationship between the main characters besides sexual attraction - I can’t with a good consciousness give this a good rating. I enjoyed reading this, but I needed it to be more. And it just wasn’t. Hopefully this will get better with the second book. After at it was just the introduction into the story which seems promising to me! 3

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DNF‘ed at 25%