RATING: Cover - 2.5 Stars, Writing - 3 stars, Characters - 3 Stars, Pacing - 3.5 stars, Enjoyment - 3 stars, OVERALL RATING - ⭐️3⭐️ STARS

Look, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t exactly good either. If was shitty, it was trashy, it was tropy, but it was fine. I honestly don’t know why I was expecting a high quality YA fantasy.

Really all this book is? A bunch of tropes and different books smashed together to make one book. (BOOKS - Shadow and bone, hints of the selection, red queen, a court of thorns and roses, which conveniently I didn’t like any of these books that much). (TROPES - To many to name tbh. But a few: main guy character is a brooding and mysterious asshole bad boy in the beginning, main heroine relies on everyone else to save her, and everyone claims she’s powerful but really isn’t, the classic sexual tension between the two main characters as their fighting or practicing).

I enjoyed it more towards the end, and the romance between Ruby and Arkas (I have no fucking idea how to spell that shit) was ok, but again it wasn’t spectacular.

Our main character was kind of weak heroine, and I guess our main guy character was fine but kinda douchee. Our villain was cruel and to the point, but he wasn’t evil enough.

The plot was very unoriginal, and the characters didn’t really have personalities other than the tropes that made them characters, but I enjoyed it alright I guess.

And I generally like the audiobook. This is my first audiobook I’ve ever listened to, and it’s safe to say that I will be using audiobooks more in the future.

But again, overall I really didn’t think this job was anything special. The only reason it got its 3 stars, is mainly for my enjoyment. Sure, maybe when I don’t have anything else to read I’ll read the sequel, but for now I’m good