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thefaeriesden 's review for:
Blood & Honey
by Shelby Mahurin
Hi bookworms,
In Blood and Honey we start out right after the ending of the first book, lucky us, because that ending was a true cliffhanger.
The beginning of our new adventures start camped out in La Forêt des Yeux, The Forest of Eyes…
Quite literally camped out because our little assembly of friends and foe are hiding out in the cold damp woods from Louise’s maman, La Dame des Sorcières. After the advents at Modraniht we follow the characters along on their path to find a way to sabotage Morgane’s plans.
After Serpent and Dove I dove into Blood and Honey eagerly but cautiously, because of all the mixed reviews I had read. For more than half of the book I was pretty unimpressed. I felt desperate for some real thrill and action but, in my opinion, nothing really happened until after the 400 page mark. Thankfully some of my friends were able to convince me to continue this one. There were many times I wanted to DNF this book because I didn’t feel passionate about our two main characters and the writing didn’t evoke any special feelings in me. I also felt like Shelby was trying to make us feel something but it didn’t really work. For example: Later in the book Lou talks about the suffering they went through camping out in the woods. But, I personally don’t really remember any impactful suffering. That may sound a little horrible but I felt like she wanted us to feel something there, but it just didn’t work out the way I think it was intended.
For me it was also a bit hard to keep up with all the characters because, for me to remember a character, I need backstories and I need to have experienced something with them. There were a bunch of names and I didn’t really know who some of them were at times, which made me feel a little lost. But that’s on my brain.
The book really picked up when Louise and Reid started to argue again! The story just bloomed. The pace took up immediately and there were so many sad, thrilling and funny moments. And thus, my love for this story and it’s characters was restored. Shelby even managed to make me LIKE some of the characters I despised in the begging. Although Reid is still a teeny bit bland, personally speaking. I adored the dynamics between the characters and it really felt like I was right there with them. In their world, in there battle. It was amazing!
Winding up, lets talk about the last few pages and the ending. They wrecked me! Miley’s Wrecking Ball started playing and my heart hurt SO much. I was truly mortified. Oh great Shelby why did you do this?? And something is going on with Louise but we don’t know what it is yet. I have so many questions and just like the last time… I NEED the next book.
In Blood and Honey we start out right after the ending of the first book, lucky us, because that ending was a true cliffhanger.
The beginning of our new adventures start camped out in La Forêt des Yeux, The Forest of Eyes…
Quite literally camped out because our little assembly of friends and foe are hiding out in the cold damp woods from Louise’s maman, La Dame des Sorcières. After the advents at Modraniht we follow the characters along on their path to find a way to sabotage Morgane’s plans.
After Serpent and Dove I dove into Blood and Honey eagerly but cautiously, because of all the mixed reviews I had read. For more than half of the book I was pretty unimpressed. I felt desperate for some real thrill and action but, in my opinion, nothing really happened until after the 400 page mark. Thankfully some of my friends were able to convince me to continue this one. There were many times I wanted to DNF this book because I didn’t feel passionate about our two main characters and the writing didn’t evoke any special feelings in me. I also felt like Shelby was trying to make us feel something but it didn’t really work. For example: Later in the book Lou talks about the suffering they went through camping out in the woods. But, I personally don’t really remember any impactful suffering. That may sound a little horrible but I felt like she wanted us to feel something there, but it just didn’t work out the way I think it was intended.
For me it was also a bit hard to keep up with all the characters because, for me to remember a character, I need backstories and I need to have experienced something with them. There were a bunch of names and I didn’t really know who some of them were at times, which made me feel a little lost. But that’s on my brain.
The book really picked up when Louise and Reid started to argue again! The story just bloomed. The pace took up immediately and there were so many sad, thrilling and funny moments. And thus, my love for this story and it’s characters was restored. Shelby even managed to make me LIKE some of the characters I despised in the begging. Although Reid is still a teeny bit bland, personally speaking. I adored the dynamics between the characters and it really felt like I was right there with them. In their world, in there battle. It was amazing!
Winding up, lets talk about the last few pages and the ending. They wrecked me! Miley’s Wrecking Ball started playing and my heart hurt SO much. I was truly mortified. Oh great Shelby why did you do this?? And something is going on with Louise but we don’t know what it is yet. I have so many questions and just like the last time… I NEED the next book.