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splitdice 's review for:
Cursebound
by Saara El-Arifi
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
bruh this is 100% a triology that was originally a duology but the publisher made the author stretch out. seriously. almost all of the big plot points involve people introduced in the book that werent even properly foreshadowed about in the previous book. everything just felt so self contained and so boring. i will say this is much better as an audiobook rather than reading
everything forward will be a spoiler so watch out.
so first off, what happened to rayan? hes so watered down yet so looked up at in this book. i remember really liking him but hes just such a watered down character compared to last book. i guess being king does that?
secondly, i thought this book was getting really interesting when yeeran finally went back to waning and had her thing with salawa. especially when it came to going back to mosima!! then furi kills her and yeeran is just OKAY WITH THIS???????????? like shes sad for 30 minutes and then is like well furi wants whats best for me so its okay that she killed the woman i loved for years :) WHAT??? i also feel like things could have gotten so interesting romance wise if she didnt die but i guess the author didnt have a good reason why yeeran would choose furi over salawa so lol just remove her entiriely. this is honestly my biggest gripe with the book and the entire time i was thinking how boring everything was now that salawa was gone
thirdly, the romance in this book is awful. i already said rayan is so watered down, mainly bc he and lettle just never interact in this book. also furi and yeeran bc of what was mentioned above. and the new romance between alder and golan is just SOOOO BORING. its instalove and not even believable. they just started making eyes at each other and i was like where did this come from?? seriously?? also wasnt golan complicit in killing the queens the last book?? why is he still here??
I also laughed out loud at the free the light initiative. if youre going to make a political book dont make it so corny
anyways the ending wasnt crazy enough for me to want to continue but maybe i will when the next book comes out
everything forward will be a spoiler so watch out.
so first off, what happened to rayan? hes so watered down yet so looked up at in this book. i remember really liking him but hes just such a watered down character compared to last book. i guess being king does that?
secondly, i thought this book was getting really interesting when yeeran finally went back to waning and had her thing with salawa. especially when it came to going back to mosima!! then furi kills her and yeeran is just OKAY WITH THIS???????????? like shes sad for 30 minutes and then is like well furi wants whats best for me so its okay that she killed the woman i loved for years :) WHAT??? i also feel like things could have gotten so interesting romance wise if she didnt die but i guess the author didnt have a good reason why yeeran would choose furi over salawa so lol just remove her entiriely. this is honestly my biggest gripe with the book and the entire time i was thinking how boring everything was now that salawa was gone
thirdly, the romance in this book is awful. i already said rayan is so watered down, mainly bc he and lettle just never interact in this book. also furi and yeeran bc of what was mentioned above. and the new romance between alder and golan is just SOOOO BORING. its instalove and not even believable. they just started making eyes at each other and i was like where did this come from?? seriously?? also wasnt golan complicit in killing the queens the last book?? why is he still here??
I also laughed out loud at the free the light initiative. if youre going to make a political book dont make it so corny
anyways the ending wasnt crazy enough for me to want to continue but maybe i will when the next book comes out