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- It’s tough to review the fourth book in a series without giving away too many spoilers, so let’s just say this. If you are a romantasy lover, especially if you like a bit of a darker slant but not toooo dark, you must get into this series.
- This book is roughly the middle of the series, so the characters are dealing with the fallout of the revelations at the end of book three and getting set up for bigger showdowns to come.
- The stakes are higher, the secrets are bigger, and the spice is spicier.
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Child abuse
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug abuse
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Alcohol
Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Death of parent
Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail
Also, there doesn’t seem to be a clear reason why Eros brought Psyche to her. Psyche seems to have zero questions or concerns about getting a weird invite out of the blue to a god orgy where she participates in a ritual she doesn’t know the purpose of.
The people Psyche confides in already know all about these god parties, and she is also more than once able to immediately find a book that has the exact information she needs about the gods. But also the gods are a secret from the human world? Maybe? Unclear, because Eros mainly just speaks poetically about love and fire and doesn’t have much of a personality.
- TIME’S AGENT is one of the bleakest books I’ve ever read, and I could not tear myself away.
- Peynado creates a world ravaged by climate change and capitalism, all turbocharged by the existence of pocket worlds that can be used up in service of corporate greed.
- Inside of that larger vision is the tender grief of Raquel and Marlena, mourning a life that was ripped from them in an instant.
- All of this is held within barely 200 pages. I really hope to see more work from Peynado in the future.
Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Grief, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Colonisation
- SNOWGLOBE has quite an inventive premise. The idea that the fee for living in the only hospitable city is to become a reality TV star is fantastic.
- However, we barely saw what that daily life might be like. Most of the book happened in non-filming moments, so much so that it felt like they were hardly ever actually filming. Some of the logistics of it didn’t make sense either, though I can mostly forgive that in a YA novel.
- I could see the twist coming, but still enjoyed listening to it play out. So, mixed feelings on this book but I’m still glad I gave it a try.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism