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The Veiled Kingdom by Holly Renee

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I feel as though all feminism left the author’s body while writing this story. 

I was really excited to read this book, cause I love me a lil romatasy, but the story lacked plot, action, and even an actual love story in my opinion. The beginning was a bit of a tease cause it amped up the story to seem like it was going to be really good, but by the end, it simply sucked major butt. 

I felt like the author took all the romantasy tropes and fit them into this book rather than focusing on a unique plotline and an actual STORY. Seriously, we had: Enemies to lovers, “who did this to you”, jealousy, one bed, and of course, a FMC constantly being called small, weak, and frail training to be a warrior for some goddamned reason???? 

The two main characters made no sense together and they lacked a lot of depth. They fell in lust, not love. The possessiveness of the MMC was really unappealing and I really didn’t like the way he treated her like she was literally an object. I also didn’t like the way she was totally happy to be treated that way by him. Neither of them really had any personality that was redeemable in my opinion. Their entire storyline was about smut and possession and I just don’t jive well with that. 

This book was a prime example of an author sacrificing their own plot lines for more and more smut - which, by the end, was actually getting boring and repetitive. 

I understand how this book could be somebody’s cup of tea, but it sure as hell wasn’t mine.

As you may be able to tell, I was not a fan. Dunno if I’ll read the next one. I might, just cause it’s quite small and I wanna reach my reading goal for the year lol 

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