A review by brii_brii
Black Rose and Gold Queen by Kelly St. Clare, Shannon Mayer

2.0

 
Considering this is the last book in the series, I am severely, severely let down.

I didn’t love the first trilogy in this world because I found the story convoluted, full of holes, and confusing as hell. I was so happy going into book 3 of the second trilogy because we went in a different direction, and although this whole 2 lovers absorbed into one thing (I’ll come back to this) was a little weird, the story was pretty decent. But something happened in this book with Keefe and Orry and it just restarted the whole confusing balance nonsense over again. I read the first 2 books in 2 days. This one took me a week. I just couldn't bring myself to be interested at all. 

I really, really liked the guys in the first book. The banter was great, the chemistry was there, I was super excited to see where it was going to go. And then Andas. I get it, we all like the morally gray bad guy but Andas wasnt that. He didn’t even feel like a villain to me. Silver played the whole “oh no, you did a terrible thing, but it's just your nature, so I forgive you” card a million and one times and it got old. This dude literally absorbed the two men that she “loved” and then she just… 1. Lets him take over Aaden’s body when they’re messing around (and gets off on it) and 2. Falls in love with the guy and takes his side over two 3 world’s worth of people over and over again. 

The worst. The actual worst. 

I made it through 6 books, and I can’t really recommend this series. Like… it wasn’t bad. There were some good things to come out of it. But it really wasn’t good, and I can’t say I had a fun time.