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For the Birds by Angela Roquet
1.0

I finished this book, despite wanting to tear my hair out over the typos. "Duffle" instead of duffel, "vender" instead of vendor, and countless other errors make it apparent that there was no editor on this one.

My biggest problem with this series is that it feels like Roquet couldn't decide what kind of story to write. The first book feels like a girl-power fantasy with mild allusions to sex (albeit during a relationship that made no sense, because Lana hated the guy for no reason and then dated him for no reason), the second one felt like a whiny Harry-Potter-fifth-book "I don't want all this responsibility, why me, ooh let's cheat on the boyfriend I don't like and didn't want who I'm really mean to for no reason and date this guy who likes me even though I'm a spoiled brat who spends more time whining about schoolwork than advancing the plot" that includes a few uninspired sex scenes that feel out of place in the otherwise childish narrative, and continues into this third volume which is very violent and has more sex scenes but still failed to have anything resembling a plot.

Three books in and not one character has grown in any way, nothing of note has happened in Limbo, the time lines continue to make no sense, and the world building is terrible.

I made it this far because I hate not finishing books that I own, but this is where I draw the line.