2 1/2 months later

Now that I think about this book more, and I've read a Darker Shade of Magic, this feels like a YA version of that and I'm kinda low key liking this idea after I sat on it for awhile

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I haven't wrote a review in a long time so I apologize if I'm a little rusty.

I was super excited for Nocturna. It was one of my most anticipated releases of 2019 and i finally got around to reading it. Here is to say I'm kinda disappointed.

The magic system was confusing in this world for me personally. It took me at least 250 pages to understand what was going on (maybe because I'm an idiot, that could possibly be the case) but I just felt like it didn't make much sense. And after I found out how the magic system worked, I just thought the magic system wasn't all too great.

I also thought this book was a standalone (which was on me for once again, being a literal idiot). The way it was written just felt as though the book was a standalone. Especially the ending (even though the ending kinda sucked which I'm not gonna get into because I'll rant about that for hours)

Will I continue with the series? Possibly? Is that a for sure yes this book was amazing? Absolutely not.

Dnf at about 10%
I feel like I’m not far enough in the book for this too count for my reading goal.

I enjoyed the characters and the story, and I liked Tessa Gratton’s writing, but her world dead really confusing and I just couldn’t get into the book. It sucks because I really wanted to like this one /:

This book was bad. I'm kinda in a graphic novel/comic mood and I checked this our on my library's digital section. Why does this have the Newberry Medal? I genuinely don't understand. And wait for it...it's told in verse (we know how I feel about poetry) but not just any kinda of verse...it's a rap

Read this in my 6th grade English class in one sitting and cried

Read this in 4th grade and cried

Totally forgot this was required reading for my 5th grade English class! Didn’t love it when I read it, but I was probably just to young to appreciate it. Should probably go back and reread it soon!

*3.5

This book was fine, but it definitely reminded me of Romancing the Duke, which I read earlier this month. Do all of Tessa Dares books have a formula? I will admit this book made me grin, and laugh, and I liked all the side characters set up for the next books. The smut in here was better than Romancing the Duke though, so this is getting an extra half a star

*3.75

This little novella was pretty entertaining, I really wish it was a full length novel. I would have probably rated this higher, if it was a full length novel. But this was fun, and really sweet, and I really liked this. Doesn’t exactly feel like the regency era (which is what I think this was set in), but I still thought this was enjoyable.

This book was really unique and interesting. The world was really cool, and it reminded me a lot of the ruthless world of the Exploration Age in history. The problem's I had varied from weak characters, weird small plot holes, and the romance.


The side characters in here had little page personality, and it felt like some characters came into the plot, only for convenience, or villainy. I finished the book 20 minutes ago, and I don't remember the male side characters names. You know why? Because we didn't hardly see them at all.


There were also really weird plot holes in here too. It stated (at least I'm 90% sure) that Fable was 14 when she was dropped off on the small island, but in the flashbacks she acted like a small child. She also always called herself a "little girl", or "I'm not that same little girl anymore". You know, basically what people say when they're being dramatic about the past. It felt weird, and well, what it was. A plot hole. There was also this weird plot hole with Fable's dad. Not going to go to much into that, because ✨spoilers✨, but it was such an odd plot hole to miss.


And the romance, I don't think I like it. The whole relationships that Fable formed in fact, I didn't really like. The people on the Marigold hated Fable from the moment she set her feet on the ship. Then it was like a switch was flipped and POOF everyone likes her now. This was the problem, really with West (the love interest). He is kind of a douche if I'm putting it lightly. And the romance felt really forced between them, I didn't like it. In other words, Fable had 0 chemistry with any of these characters, and her West had negative chemistry. They just didn’t fit together. And maybe they could have, but we didn’t see them together enough for me to root for them. We didn’t see the development in their relationship, so I didn’t really feel anything towards it except repulse.


But the ending, the ending was the most interesting part of this book. See, the ending intrigued me, and I'm definitely going to pick up the sequel. Was pretty disappointed by this book though, especially since everyone has been raving about it for the last few months here.