Scan barcode
A review by rebeccadominici
Wicked All Night by Jeaniene Frost
3.0
I wasn’t fully invested in this book. I loved Veritas & Ian in the previous books and they are battling with Vlad & Leila as my favourites. However, having the Night Prince recently reread the sequels felt much better intertwined than this one did.
To be entirely honest, the whole celestial plot could have been left out…and that was the sole plot of the book.
The whole book felt flat in that sense. I liked the other world at the beginning, tapping into an ancient setting but that was soon killed by releasing more gods and making the whole thing very staged which ultimately led to caring less about the characters.
I was somewhat intrigued when Phanes arrived in the finale of the second book but it felt so out of place…as if the plot was being forced upon the storyline in order to continue.
I do like the idea of the including gods in the whole world building but in this book I don’t think it lived up to the potential it could have had.
What I did enjoy a lot was the fact that Vlad was included a lot (yup I’m biased). However - where was Leila? I didn’t like it one single bit that she was basically left out of battle the. whole. time. I get it if Vlad didn’t want for her to come but we didn’t even hear that??
Speaking of - Veritas being trapped in the battle of the second book and now again?? Didn’t like that at all. Veritas is no one to sit back and watch - quite the opposite - but that makes it so unbelievable that she is trapped twice. I think it would have worked better if she had died again and found her ability to resurrect herself - which was mentioned that she might be able to already in the first book but wasn’t further explored at all. I thought this would have led up to some exploring of her powers especially with her brother, Ashael, being able to support. (Plus - can we have a book series on him finding his love please??)
Also I think intertwining those different story lines could work better if the books weren’t only focused on one love story. I know the first POV makes switching difficult but I was intrigued by the 3rd person perspective in the Prologue and Epilogue of the second book, therefore I think it could have had more potential.
On a whole, I was very, very much loving the first two and basically read the whole trilogy in one sitting over the past two days but this finale just disappointed me
To be entirely honest, the whole celestial plot could have been left out…and that was the sole plot of the book.
The whole book felt flat in that sense. I liked the other world at the beginning, tapping into an ancient setting but that was soon killed by releasing more gods and making the whole thing very staged which ultimately led to caring less about the characters.
I was somewhat intrigued when Phanes arrived in the finale of the second book but it felt so out of place…as if the plot was being forced upon the storyline in order to continue.
I do like the idea of the including gods in the whole world building but in this book I don’t think it lived up to the potential it could have had.
What I did enjoy a lot was the fact that Vlad was included a lot (yup I’m biased). However - where was Leila? I didn’t like it one single bit that she was basically left out of battle the. whole. time. I get it if Vlad didn’t want for her to come but we didn’t even hear that??
Speaking of - Veritas being trapped in the battle of the second book and now again?? Didn’t like that at all. Veritas is no one to sit back and watch - quite the opposite - but that makes it so unbelievable that she is trapped twice. I think it would have worked better if she had died again and found her ability to resurrect herself - which was mentioned that she might be able to already in the first book but wasn’t further explored at all. I thought this would have led up to some exploring of her powers especially with her brother, Ashael, being able to support. (Plus - can we have a book series on him finding his love please??)
Also I think intertwining those different story lines could work better if the books weren’t only focused on one love story. I know the first POV makes switching difficult but I was intrigued by the 3rd person perspective in the Prologue and Epilogue of the second book, therefore I think it could have had more potential.
On a whole, I was very, very much loving the first two and basically read the whole trilogy in one sitting over the past two days but this finale just disappointed me