Didn't live up to the hype-so disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2023 | Rating: 2/5 | Best Sellers in Kindle Store
i learned about this book through instagram and what first caught my attention was the cover especially the dragons on it then the mention of dragons and that it was a fantasy so interested i read the sample chapters read a variety of reviews and ignoring the tiny voice of reason in my head telling me not to i bought the book  normally when it involves fantasy and dragons i give all my attention to the book i barely eat or drink or sleep but this book i took my time with at times putting it aside i bought the ebook for a couple of days  something about it was setting off internal alarms in my head that screamed this book will be a disappointment return it now and my instincts were right  what first caught my attention was how much the point of view resembled a 1516 year old teenagers instead of a woman in her late teens early twenties she was very immature both emotionally and mentally for someine who grew up with a breakable body like her growing up in a war faving more hardship than probably anyone else one would think violet would be more mature for her age but she comes off as a 1416 year old going through puberty secondly was the lack of information about this disease her mother caught while pregnant with her that made violet so weak and frail or how disappointed her mother was with her for not originally wanting to be a dragon rider for being weak i dont blame violet for not wanting to be a dragon rider soldier seeing how the mortality rate was so high for them which she couldnt help that she was born that way the way her mother forved her to be a rider is just cruel shes already lost her son and now shes risking her youngest child especially with the middle child already being a dragon rider youd think shed want to save her remaining children  third reason why i started to dislike this book was all the modern day names and lack of creativity messless pens can we say fountain pen or ballpoint pen then using our month system i mean come on could the author not make up her own month names she had to use our month system not very creative seems kinda lazy actually especially since she could come up with such creative dragon breeds like scorpiontail daggertail morningstartail etc and she could come up with names for the godsgoddesses for the countireskingdoms such as navarre but she couldnt make up her own month names then their is the modern day names too violet liam jack lilith rhiannon sure she has some names that could be considered as fantasy but for the most part the common everyday names is what got to me then she even mentions god god as in the christian god the holy father god from the bible here is all the times god is mentioned pgs 95 261 263 its not gods its god complete with the capital g that was the biggest issue for me her mentioning god when its supposed to be an fantasy book i even emailed the author asking her about her mentioning him if it was on purpose or a mistake and she didnt even bother to respond and its been like 4 months  fourth reason this book was a disappointment for me was violets near immediate attraction to xaden the whole romance between the two of them it felt rushed like the author wanted them to hook up straight away like one of those cheesy romance novels where the characters sleep together because theyre so in love by chapter 2 i hate romance books where the characters are attracted to each other based on physical looks first it just feels shallow then theyre attracted to the personality the book was less of a romance fantasy and more of an erotica fantasy book i actually found myself skimming through the sex scenes because like previous people commented the scenes were just going on and on i mean i think one scene they had sex for like half the day and entire night its just unrealistic  another reason was the lack of description of the dragons i like to imagine what the dragons look like while im reading just saying the dragon was a daggertail means nothing to meso the dragon has a dagger like tail long and narrow with a sharp tip and the scorpiontaildoes the dragon tail arch up over its back like a scorpions what about the morningstartail its tail is like the morningstar weapon what also bugged me was that the author mentioned how one dragons height was equal to the height of a two story building okay whoop dee doo two stories thats it thats how tall the dragons are and are all dragons that tall tairn was described as being huge okay just how huge whats his height how much bigger is he compared to the other dragons  what also irritated me was toward the end xadens pov hes portrayed as this badass confident guy but his pov just made him seem pathetic hes in his early twenties yet hes acting like violet is the love of his life and hes nothing without her too clingy after all hes been through all those kids being his responsibility one would think hed be more mature for his age but he just comes off as a love sick teenager not a young man living on the knifes edge then their is how gentle violet is with himtowards him when she learns the truth about him and the others how understanding she is if i were her id be causing physical pain i wouldnt be gentle or understanding id be betrayed and angry and showing it  then the best friend i was disgusted at how controlling he was over violet at times he felt more like a brother than a best friend other times he acted like a jealous exboyfriend than a friend he started out pretty cool then just fell the fact that he believed so strongly in that wingleader that tried to kill violet in her sleep over violet who is his best friend since childhood was just disgusting that right there sent up red flags about him he basically betrayed her by going against her siding with that woman then insisting that violet retract her claims wanting the woman to be saved then trying to use his gift power on her to get the truth can we say personal violation on so many levels he reminds me of one of those people who are goody little two shoes never break a rule insists on everyone else following the rules and wait ive got it hes a stick in the mud or is it hes got a stick shoved up his backside that refrence applies to the best friend  i was just really disappointed in this story that it fell short especially due to all the hype going on about it i felt like she was copying other authors dragons communicating via telepathy thats from eragon and lack of just fantasy creativity its like she cobbled together all her favorite fantasy concepts and threw them together into this poor excuse of a fantasy book pens clocks college it couldnt be called an university or academy the months and common people names she should stick to her romcom fiction romance books and stay outta the fantasy genre the fact that other people are saying its better than sarah j maas books are utterly blind and lack common sense as far as i know sarah j maas didnt steal from other fantasy books to create her throne of glass series or her court series and even if she did borrow from others she actually put in effort unlike rebecca yarros to make her series true fantasy instead of fauxfantasy which is what this book is  im entirely sure i wont be reading the second book and im positive that i wont be rereading this one