Review: Good Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
3.75 stars. I'm honestly not entirely sure why that's the rating I'm choosing, but it just didn't feel like it deserved a full 4 stars. Overall I enjoyed the book, but the constant reminders that Ring lives with and gets to sleep with two women all the time got old and boring real fast. I got it the first time it was mentioned and repeating it every other page (okay not exactly but it really was mentioned a lot) was just not necessary. I also would have appreciated more interaction with Elizabeth's archangels. We're introduced to them in a way that shows us their particular sins, which gave me the impression that those sins would play into Elizabeth's rise to power, but then those sins are barely mentioned again, and when we visit any of the archangels again, for me it was hard to remember what was significant about them. They really basically all blended together and I didn't feel any sort of connection with them, but feel like I should have. Then after the story builds up all this hype and suspense about this epic battle that Ring is going to have to take part in, the ending was very anticlimactic.It was well written though, and aside from the near constant allusions to their unusual living situation it was interesting. Also, it should be mentioned that this is the second book in a series, but I truly feel that it can be read as a standalone (I got through about 5% of the first book before I had to put it down in order to be able to finish this book in time to get my review written for the blog tour I'm taking part in). This book does a good job of briefly explaining back story so that I feel caught up even though I didn't read the first book. Would I recommend this book to others? Definitely, but I'm going to warn them about all the talk about Ring sleeping with two women that doesn't actually include us seeing him sleeping with both women.Copy received in exchange for an honest review.