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Until the Stars Fall by Vanessa Rasanen
DID NOT FINISH: 70%

 DNF at 70% (but probably like 60% since I skimmed)

I don’t have many nice things to say about this and I seem to be in the minority since most people have loved it, so take this with a grain of salt.

I liked the writing at first but then the dialogue and internal monologue got so childish and annoying. The banter was forced and not fun. Also, using an exclamation point at the end of every second sentence is…wow…I hated that. “!?!?” was also used multiple times. Just no.

The FMC was an absolute idiot. I don’t think I’ve read a woman portrayed as stupidly as she was. She wasn’t described well and her entire personality was “I love this man no actually this man” I was actually angry with how stupid she was with Brennan. He was blatantly manipulating and using her and she’s like “should I love him should I not”

Conner was supposed to be this strong prince military fae but he was just some whiny, wimpy teenager-sounding 1 dimensional character. Loved her after meeting her once. Real great.

The prologue had potential but when the scene came up, it was a huge let down.

The world building and magic system was not explained. I was extremely slow paced, like at 70% nothing had really happened.

Overall, nope.