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leanimal87 's review for:
Defend the Dawn
by Brigid Kemmerer
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Another success!! I did knock off one star for some issues that slowed the pace down and had me rolling me eyes every other page.
I'm not a travel sequence fan - walking, riding horses, sailing, trains - I don't like it. It tends to slow down the pace and intrigue of the plot and the characters get into stupid spats (I also hate the miscommunication trope, it's over done y'all, time for something new). And most of the book is travel. Captain Rian Blakemore was an interesting character and a fun development, I was hoping for a little love-triangle tension, but it never really came to fruition. Also, he was dropping some scary red flags to Tessa about our guy Carrick and I fully thought he was going to say "bitch please" at one point to her. Harriston's POV chapters were great and furthered the plot.
During the travel portion, Tessa and Carrick also got into such a weird "fight" it didn't really make sense to me. It seemed poorly developed to cause artificial tension between the Captain - Corrick - Tessa. At the end, with all the big reveals I couldn't help thinking "why didn't ANY of you just say this from the start?" The reasonings for hiding their identity or true motive was stupid.
I still really enjoyed the overall story and experience. This ended on a gentle cliffhanger, so I cant wait to read the next one.
I'm not a travel sequence fan - walking, riding horses, sailing, trains - I don't like it. It tends to slow down the pace and intrigue of the plot and the characters get into stupid spats (I also hate the miscommunication trope, it's over done y'all, time for something new). And most of the book is travel. Captain Rian Blakemore was an interesting character and a fun development, I was hoping for a little love-triangle tension, but it never really came to fruition. Also, he was dropping some scary red flags to Tessa about our guy Carrick and I fully thought he was going to say "bitch please" at one point to her. Harriston's POV chapters were great and furthered the plot.
During the travel portion, Tessa and Carrick also got into such a weird "fight" it didn't really make sense to me. It seemed poorly developed to cause artificial tension between the Captain - Corrick - Tessa. At the end, with all the big reveals I couldn't help thinking "why didn't ANY of you just say this from the start?" The reasonings for hiding their identity or true motive was stupid.
I still really enjoyed the overall story and experience. This ended on a gentle cliffhanger, so I cant wait to read the next one.