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nadine_booklover's review
3.0
Solid three stars... Almost four, but for four the story should have been more thrilling. The most part is just telling, only the last part grabbed me so much I could not stop reading. However I enjoyed reading this book as always being with Widershins :-)
tinynavajo's review
5.0
This series is plain amazing! Widdershins and Olgun are once again getting into trouble, only this time they are in Lourveaux, one of the only places left that has Delacroix family. The family of the man that took in and raised Widdershins. And there is a threat to that family. As a favor to her late father-figure, Widdershins and Olgun investigate and try to save the Delacroix family.
blodeuedd's review
4.0
This ia YA, light and dark at the same time. She never has it easy and people always die in this series.
Yes poor Widdershins, she can't seem to be able to just be happy and do what she want. She is also very very angry and on the run. We do get glimpses if Davillion and the life she left behind. Something is brewing there and will set the game plan for book 4. But that is that book and this is this book.
The book takes place in a smaller city where she at once comes across something fishy. Loyal as she is she sets out to investiage. The local thieves, nobles, yes she always finds the truth and she always gets in trouble.
Widdershins is a great kick-ass YA heroine. The pace is fast, there is fighting, running and evil afoot.
I look forward to reading more.
Yes poor Widdershins, she can't seem to be able to just be happy and do what she want. She is also very very angry and on the run. We do get glimpses if Davillion and the life she left behind. Something is brewing there and will set the game plan for book 4. But that is that book and this is this book.
The book takes place in a smaller city where she at once comes across something fishy. Loyal as she is she sets out to investiage. The local thieves, nobles, yes she always finds the truth and she always gets in trouble.
Widdershins is a great kick-ass YA heroine. The pace is fast, there is fighting, running and evil afoot.
I look forward to reading more.
frexam's review
3.0
Turns out I've read the previous two books, and recently learned I'd missed a third so I decided to read it. It was OK, and the story in this book ended strongly, but it is also sort of a bridge novel to the next one, which hasn't been written yet, so keep that in mind.
kisthebook's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
nutmegqueen's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.25
zoeelizabethk's review
3.5
I quite liked Lost Covenant. Last books lost me a little bit, but with a change of setting, we get a lot more in depth characterization of Widdershins and see her work through a lot of what happened last book and realize the larger arc going on. I quite enjoyed this. 3.5 stars
arberry's review
3.0
3.5 rounded down.
I thought I hadn’t read this one, but certain elements of it felt very familiar to me. Whether I really had read it and not logged it in the past or whether this series has started to rehash itself a little is up in the air.
Widdershins can veer pretty heavily into “Mary Sue” territory at times, although given that she has a literal god in her head and still isn’t perfect at everything is much more forgivable than say one of SJM’s many infallible cookie cutter protagonists. She’s an interesting character at least, again far more than I can say for Feyre or Celaena, although not always as clever as she thinks. The constant elaborate back and forths can get a bit grating, and make these books feel longer than they are even though none of them have yet passed 300 pages iirc. Maybe I need to take a break before finishing the series.
There’s a lot I really love about this world and these characters, and truly some of the most interesting concepts I’ve seen in fantasy books are explored here, but the weaknesses in these books have become more obvious to me with each passing installment, in spite of my continuing enjoyment (yes I know that was a really long run on sentence)
I thought I hadn’t read this one, but certain elements of it felt very familiar to me. Whether I really had read it and not logged it in the past or whether this series has started to rehash itself a little is up in the air.
Widdershins can veer pretty heavily into “Mary Sue” territory at times, although given that she has a literal god in her head and still isn’t perfect at everything is much more forgivable than say one of SJM’s many infallible cookie cutter protagonists. She’s an interesting character at least, again far more than I can say for Feyre or Celaena, although not always as clever as she thinks. The constant elaborate back and forths can get a bit grating, and make these books feel longer than they are even though none of them have yet passed 300 pages iirc. Maybe I need to take a break before finishing the series.
There’s a lot I really love about this world and these characters, and truly some of the most interesting concepts I’ve seen in fantasy books are explored here, but the weaknesses in these books have become more obvious to me with each passing installment, in spite of my continuing enjoyment (yes I know that was a really long run on sentence)