Reviews with content warning for Blood - Beztroska

I wanted to carry on with this series because this series has been all over the book community and trusting Booktok hits can either be hit or miss and this one was a hit.

This book has two points of view. The first is Paedyn Grey, and she has survived the purging trials, but she has killed the King and people now know was born as an Ordinary. She has also kickstarted a Resistance through the kingdom of Ilya. She is on the run from the one person she had wanted to run to. She is determined to be free from Ilya and away from Kai and Kitt, but will she be able to stay one foot in front of Kai. The second point of view is Kai Azer, and he is now official Ilya’s enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice. As long as he can keep his feelings in check for her because once he finds her, she will be sentenced to death. Across the deadly Scorches, and deep into the hostile city of Dor, Kai purses the one person he wishes he didn’t have to. But in a city with Elites, the balance between the hunter and hunted shifts – and the battle between duty and desire is deadly.

This book was brilliantly written, and I enjoyed this book. I loved the characters – Kai and Paedyn were hilarious separately and together and how they were avoiding each other but then they didn’t want to avoid each other and wanted to be around each other. Paedyn could kick my ass and I would thank her for it. I love how blunt she was and how she didn’t give a shit who she was talking to. I loved her being in disgust as Shadow and yet she was kicking the ass of grown-ass men. Kai was still a golden retriever, and you knew he wasn’t going to kill Paedyn no matter what and how jealous he was getting over random ass strangers flirting with Paedyn. That man still needs to learn to hide his emotions better as he was a complete open book. The whole “let’s pretend” was so adorable but you could tell that Kai wasn’t pretending.

My only issue was it was all still a bit predictable, just like the Maze Runner and the Scorch. The different being that WCKD was Kitt and that they didn’t want to kill her because they had other plans where Paedyn was just like if you are going to kill me, kill me quickly.

The ending was cruel again and now I have to wait until NEXT YEAR for the next book. I hope Kitt doesn’t become cruel even though he was betrayed because it will just hurt my heart. Even though we could see glimpses of his cruelness hopefully he ends up standing up with Paedyn and fixing everything in time.

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kailynreads's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I don't even know where to start.

The ending was one of the most shocking things I've ever read, and this man over here is definitely going to need to give one of the best excuses for doing what he did, or else I am just going to be forever confused.

Kai and Paedyn were adorable. I loved everything that happened between them, and them trying to create a line (a very blurry one might I add) between hate and, could I say love, was honestly kind of comical.

Four/fifths of the book were definitely focused on the Pae and Kai's relationship and them being together, rather than anything really happening with the Resistance. To be honest, that's totally fine with me, because I don't really care about the whole resistance thing in any books, and I'm definitely here more for the romance, but I can see how it can make it seem like nothing really important happened—you probably could miss this book and go straight on to the third, but the romance is too good so that's definitely not recommended.

Overall, I loved the book and the romance was super fun to read, and definitely gave me butterflies at times.

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hxlleann's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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manteiga's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It was a fast paced easy read and I enjoyed seeng the characters develop. Particularly the development of the relationship between Pae and Kai.

Felt a lot like it was setting up for the 3rd book. Introducing character briefly then loosing them. I hope they are resolved and come back in the 3rd book.

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theresamothinmyroom's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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ashlyncherie's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

It goes up from a 2 to 2.25 just for the last page. I hate when books are boring all throughout then have one big reveal at the end that makes you feel like you have to continue the series. I was totally prepared to DNF this series after this one. NOTHING HAPPENED in this entire book. If I have to read the same conversation one more time…. I will go crazy. Just don’t get into this series because it will just frustrate you, and go read Red Queen instead, it’s basically the OG Powerless

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