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A review by themoonwholistens
The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
2.0
“There are no rules in survival.”
[I barely found any nice quotes to put here and, to my regulars, you all know how much I love quotes]
THIS BOOK WAS SO SLOWWWW
ohmygod what happened?? I'll tell you what. . .
I was in love with the first book but I have to admit that I probably loved it for the romance since it was well written and I enjoyed it very much. . . but. . . there was barely any world building to begin with. And you can clearly see that in the second book since the love triangle is gone and the fantasy world [supposedly] builds up.
I was very curious and had high expectations for the fantasy world but sadly it did not reach my expectations and how I thought it would be. The plot practically stayed in one place the whole book and this could really have had more potential.
The plot is just so. . . one dimensional? Trapped? One-place-ish?? I don't know how to say it but I just really hate these kinds of fantasy. Fantasy worlds are meant to explore and create paintings and dreams inside the readers' head and this book just did not do it for me.
The only reason I even gave this 2 stars is because I always enjoy the little Gaudrel poems and song excerpts in between chapters. That was really creative and that was just a really big redeeming quality.
And don't forget my baby boys. Rafe and Kaden needs to be mentioned for the redeeming qualities of this book and even though they are a bit one dimensional at times I enjoyed about 50% the chapters they were in and they really used me to finish the first book. In this book though, they were not the entire focus of the book and the motivation that I had for reading and finishing the first book is gone and I just found myself slowly losing interest in it.
AND THE FIRST BOOK AND THE SECOND BOOK ENDED THE SAME WAY?? EVEN RAFE'S LINES WERE THE SAME!!
not that I had anything against ending books the same way. . .don't end it the exact same way with this kind of story and this just really did pull it down for me even more than it already did.
I'm sorry to any fans of this book that I hurt. *peace sign*
[I barely found any nice quotes to put here and, to my regulars, you all know how much I love quotes]
THIS BOOK WAS SO SLOWWWW
ohmygod what happened?? I'll tell you what. . .
I was in love with the first book but I have to admit that I probably loved it for the romance since it was well written and I enjoyed it very much. . . but. . . there was barely any world building to begin with. And you can clearly see that in the second book since the love triangle is gone and the fantasy world [supposedly] builds up.
I was very curious and had high expectations for the fantasy world but sadly it did not reach my expectations and how I thought it would be. The plot practically stayed in one place the whole book and this could really have had more potential.
The plot is just so. . . one dimensional? Trapped? One-place-ish?? I don't know how to say it but I just really hate these kinds of fantasy. Fantasy worlds are meant to explore and create paintings and dreams inside the readers' head and this book just did not do it for me.
The only reason I even gave this 2 stars is because I always enjoy the little Gaudrel poems and song excerpts in between chapters. That was really creative and that was just a really big redeeming quality.
And don't forget my baby boys. Rafe and Kaden needs to be mentioned for the redeeming qualities of this book and even though they are a bit one dimensional at times I enjoyed about 50% the chapters they were in and they really used me to finish the first book. In this book though, they were not the entire focus of the book and the motivation that I had for reading and finishing the first book is gone and I just found myself slowly losing interest in it.
Spoiler
AND THE FIRST BOOK AND THE SECOND BOOK ENDED THE SAME WAY?? EVEN RAFE'S LINES WERE THE SAME!!
not that I had anything against ending books the same way. . .don't end it the exact same way with this kind of story and this just really did pull it down for me even more than it already did.
I'm sorry to any fans of this book that I hurt. *peace sign*