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Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost
3.0
this does not objectively deserve 3 stars but im rating in comparison to the other books atp
Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
2.75
paranormal fiction authors please stop using real life racism as a rhetorical parallel to like... undead oppression or whatever ........... please. it was 1 paragraph and not a larger theme, but it pissed me off
additionally imagine you almost kill yourself the first time that your husband fake dies and then he goes and DOES IT AGAIN ON PURPOSE THIS TIME??? maybe he doesn't know that she tried to kill herself the first time bc i don't remember anyone telling him but like jesus christ man.... whenever they argue about something i leave the conversation unsatisfied because they never really flesh out the wrong done or its implications as thoroughly as i would like. what do you mean you're going to forget about it just because they love you. THE CONVERSATION ISN'T FINISHED!!! (this is especially how i felt a couple of books ago during the gregor temporary divorce plotline, i'm just venting it now bc it's also relevant with the faked death)
still..... crazy that this is the final book in this whole giant series........ ive read like 14 of them and it's OVER now.... there's still ian's books left i guess and a novella but like. crazy. wtf. i didnt even like these that much, i had a lot of beef with certain narrative choices and how they played out, but like. these were laced with something. i inhaled them over the course of 2 weeks even though i was oscillating between being pissed off or not. i can't say that this was a good experience but it certainly was an experience of some sort and unfortunately it will live rent free in my head for a long time... nothing sticks with me like a universe that i know could have been done better in a lot of ways yet had tantalizing potential. fuck. this is the curse, isn't it
additionally imagine you almost kill yourself the first time that your husband fake dies and then he goes and DOES IT AGAIN ON PURPOSE THIS TIME??? maybe he doesn't know that she tried to kill herself the first time bc i don't remember anyone telling him but like jesus christ man.... whenever they argue about something i leave the conversation unsatisfied because they never really flesh out the wrong done or its implications as thoroughly as i would like. what do you mean you're going to forget about it just because they love you. THE CONVERSATION ISN'T FINISHED!!! (this is especially how i felt a couple of books ago during the gregor temporary divorce plotline, i'm just venting it now bc it's also relevant with the faked death)
still..... crazy that this is the final book in this whole giant series........ ive read like 14 of them and it's OVER now.... there's still ian's books left i guess and a novella but like. crazy. wtf. i didnt even like these that much, i had a lot of beef with certain narrative choices and how they played out, but like. these were laced with something. i inhaled them over the course of 2 weeks even though i was oscillating between being pissed off or not. i can't say that this was a good experience but it certainly was an experience of some sort and unfortunately it will live rent free in my head for a long time... nothing sticks with me like a universe that i know could have been done better in a lot of ways yet had tantalizing potential. fuck. this is the curse, isn't it
One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost
3.0
i skimmed parts of this so i can't totally vouch for it but it was better compared to the books before it! i think you can feel that the author gets better with more books under her belt lol.
usually, when books involve the malleus maleficarum and witch hunts in their plotlines, they do so in a way that pisses me off so badly. but this one somehow didn't! it touched on all the right things relating to that while avoiding the pitfalls that annoy me.
usually, when books involve the malleus maleficarum and witch hunts in their plotlines, they do so in a way that pisses me off so badly. but this one somehow didn't! it touched on all the right things relating to that while avoiding the pitfalls that annoy me.
Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
3.0
one of the better ones in this series, i think it really shows that the author has more experience under her belt now vs when she was writing the earlier books
First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost
3.0
i would have easily loved him as a love interest if there was more focus on the romance parts, but it wasn't bad. it was a different ratio of romance-to-plot compared to the other books by this author, so i was kind of expecting that to be similar here. instead there was more time spent on the not-romance plotline and less time spent selling us on the romance. still, not bad. especially when there's only 1 book for them compared to the multiple books that the other couple has. just less Time to fit everything
Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost
2.0
wiping this from my memory as we speak the plot itself wasn't too bad this time but the way that several key moments were handled made me so irritated LMAO