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Holding out Hope for some intrigue

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

February 5, 2024 by AC Leave a Comment

For the second book in the series, I’m not optimistic. It took me almost a month of picking it up and putting it back down to finally complete Crown of Midnight. Most of the story felt tired. The love triangle, the deceit, even the rebel storyline couldn’t keep my attention for very long. I fear this series may have just killed off the most interesting character so far. If it weren’t for Fleetfoot, I may have put it down right then. I can see the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Young Adult Tagged With: sarah j maas, Sarah J. Mass

AC's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Young Adult · Tags: sarah j maas, Sarah J. Mass ·
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Not on the bandwagon for this series

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

May 30, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Throne of Glass sounded promising and it’s been on my list for a while. I finally picked it up; it starts off well, but then it seems to forget about the actual plot and focuses on the romantic possibilities of the incredibly obvious possible triangle between Celaena, Chaol, and Dorian, and the courtly scheming, mostly by two totally underdeveloped characters who might actually rather deserve each other. There is some supernatural evil looming in the background the whole time, but that too is pretty predictable […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, assassin, Romance, sarah j maas, Sarah J. Mass, Throne of Glass, YA, ya fantasy

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:47 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, assassin, Romance, sarah j maas, Sarah J. Mass, Throne of Glass, YA, ya fantasy ·
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