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Rose in Chains

Julie Soto

4.21 AVERAGE

tense slow-paced
slow-paced
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Slow at first, but I was hooked.
dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

a lot happened but at the same time nothing happened? i get it he’s morally grey blah blah blah but cmon give me SOMETHING i wasn’t interested until at least 50% in and then once it picked up we introduced a bunch of plot lines and then the book ended - will be tuned in for the next one but was just expecting something that would have made me root for either characters 
dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A lot happened, but not a lot happened at all? I found the world building to be confusing and hard to keep up with at times. A lot of this book was just building up the world for the future books with some crazy traumatic events happening sparingly.
Also, I really don’t think we learned enough about Mallow’s rise for the people of Bomard to be depicted as downright barbaric. The evilness felt so manufactured.
Wish there was more development between the love interests. 

I did like the inclusion of the flashbacks, though. Just wish we had more of them with Toven to really develop their relationship.

529 pages

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