⭐️⭐️ / 2 stars

Thank you to Netgalley and Dundurn Press for gifting me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

The Boi of Feather and Steel picks up right after the first book. It shows how Eli is coping with her new magic and Kite’s plan to take control.

The book starts out with multiple POV’s, more than in the first book. At first this was a bit confusing for me. Especially since the changes happened within the chapters and not per chapter.

Everything the first book ended with this book continued. The first book ended on a confusing and weird note. I struggled to follow the story and this book wasn’t different in this aspect. When I’d read one third of the book, I still wouldn’t been able to tell somebody what was happening if I was asked. It was just confusing and even rereading chapters didn’t help.

Because it was so confusing, I became a bit irritated by the book. I didn’t want to reread chapters just so I could understand what I was reading. It felt like it took forever just to finish this book. The pacing also was really slow and the parts I did understand in the plot felt like everything went in circles. Their motives, background stories and everything I found missing in the first book weren’t told here. Their actions still didn’t make any sense and thus I still couldn’t believe in the characters.

I appreciated the found family bonds this book had, but I felt pretty indifferent the characters themselves. There was a lot of angst written in this book, and I just didn’t care for any of it. Whenever something bad happened, I was like; yeah okay, and just continued on without a thought.

Overall, the book just didn’t do it for me. I felt very indifferent and couldn’t enjoy it. The hopes I had for this book fell flat. I still love the idea of this series, but the executing didn’t do it justice.