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House of Striking Oaths by Olivia Wildenstein
2.0
slow-paced

 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT.

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I don’t even want to write this review. I am incredibly frustrated by this one.

First of all, why did we spend so much time with Dante? He’s THE FREAKING WORST. And took up way too many pages with his over the top dramatics and trying way too hard to be a villain. It didn’t work. I missed Lore.

Lore is the only aspect I remember liking. I enjoyed his possessive and protective side, per usual. Aaaaand that’s about it.

Fallon got on my nerves some more. And the plot took a bunch of random directions with info dumping (in this, the third book mind you) to try to create more story??? I don’t know. I was confused. Disconnected. And just begging this book to be over.

And now that I know who the spin-off is about I thought it was an odd choice too? I wanted to be able to say, read this series, and now I feel like I can’t say that. Books one and two were very enjoyable. This one left me wanting in about 100 different ways.

Overall audience notes:
- Fantasy Romance
- Language: heavy and strong
- Romance: 3-4 open; high explicit
- Violence: high
- Trigger/Content Warnings: loss of life, murder, physical/magical/weapons violence, small battle themes