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A review by lorithereadingfairy
The Raven and the Dove by Kaitlyn Davis
3.0
Review on my blog, The Reading Fairy
The Hunter and the Mage: ?/5
Untitled: ?/5
Untitled: ?/5
Disclaimer: I received an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. This does not affect my opinion.
TW: Blood, Fantasy Violence, Death
Rep: Black MC
If anyone doesn't know already, but I love being one of the unpopular opinions when it comes to books that people love.Does anyone really deny me on Netgalley? Maybe that one publisher who just does not like me, but it’s fine I have another publisher who approves me every time I request one of their books. Also, I requested this book on a whim for the pretty cover and somehow got accepted? All I saw was the pretty cover-I mean how cool is that cover. I love it so much!
Unfortunately, pretty cover be damned because I didn't really like this book to much to really even care about it. It took me a little more than 1/2 of the way to even really connect with the story.
This book was boring for my tastes. Nothing really exciting happens until the last 100 pages,also where all the shortest chapters were at? It was really hard for me to pay attention through a good chunk of it, and somehow a small light flickered that I could actually know what was happening even if I did not care about the characters.
The characters were really lacking. Rafe was probably one of the most interesting characters and so was Cassi. Both characters should have gotten some more POVs in the book, because they were interesting. I couldn't care less about what happened to Xander and Layana. Those two characters drove me crazy, and was the main reason why I didn't binge read this book, and read during the last five or ten minutes of lunch.
The writing was certainly... interesting to say. I love purple prose in fantasy books and found that it really worked well in the book. It was just so beautiful and the way that it was described was ❤. I did noticed that there were a few spots where the prose was unnecessary and the huge "world-building" terms that made me question it.
The world-building terms was just really weird. The author added terms later to the book, and I had to side-eye them quite a bit.
They were weird, and honestly because I keep misreading them and it looked like another few words I know quite a bit. It was really weird.
There was quite a bit of times where I noticed repetition with a few words. It was this book, where I now hate the word 'Mate' for a long time. Mate was used quite a bit of times, and honestly how many times can you use the word for a long time before someone could get sick of it.
This is the ARC version of it, and I'm not sure if some of the repetition got fixed in the final copy, but if somehow read the final copy. Can you tell me if mate gets repeated a lot in the book?
I have no idea how to describe the romance that was in the book. It was fine, and this is coming from a person where romance is not her cup of tea whatsoever. I feel like the romance between Rafe and Layana was insta-love. They met for a few chapters, and then the next thing I knew they were in love with each other, but they can't be together. And Xander and Layana's romance was just boring.
The Hunter and the Mage: ?/5
Untitled: ?/5
Untitled: ?/5
Disclaimer: I received an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. This does not affect my opinion.
TW: Blood, Fantasy Violence, Death
Rep: Black MC
"But dreams had a bothersome way of ignoring the truth, and hope made the impossible seem within reach."
If anyone doesn't know already, but I love being one of the unpopular opinions when it comes to books that people love.
Unfortunately, pretty cover be damned because I didn't really like this book to much to really even care about it. It took me a little more than 1/2 of the way to even really connect with the story.
This book was boring for my tastes. Nothing really exciting happens until the last 100 pages,
The characters were really lacking. Rafe was probably one of the most interesting characters and so was Cassi. Both characters should have gotten some more POVs in the book, because they were interesting. I couldn't care less about what happened to Xander and Layana. Those two characters drove me crazy, and was the main reason why I didn't binge read this book, and read during the last five or ten minutes of lunch.
The writing was certainly... interesting to say. I love purple prose in fantasy books and found that it really worked well in the book. It was just so beautiful and the way that it was described was ❤. I did noticed that there were a few spots where the prose was unnecessary and the huge "world-building" terms that made me question it.
The world-building terms was just really weird. The author added terms later to the book, and I had to side-eye them quite a bit.
They were weird, and honestly because I keep misreading them and it looked like another few words I know quite a bit. It was really weird.
There was quite a bit of times where I noticed repetition with a few words. It was this book, where I now hate the word 'Mate' for a long time. Mate was used quite a bit of times, and honestly how many times can you use the word for a long time before someone could get sick of it.
This is the ARC version of it, and I'm not sure if some of the repetition got fixed in the final copy, but if somehow read the final copy. Can you tell me if mate gets repeated a lot in the book?
I have no idea how to describe the romance that was in the book. It was fine, and this is coming from a person where romance is not her cup of tea whatsoever. I feel like the romance between Rafe and Layana was insta-love. They met for a few chapters, and then the next thing I knew they were in love with each other, but they can't be together. And Xander and Layana's romance was just boring.