Bow Before the Elf Queen

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Descriptions were clunky; random things were described in excess detail that neither gave the story ambience nor moved the plot forward. Held for weeks without food or water, Layala's resolve begins to fracture as an evil darkness looms over her.

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She has an even darker truth that makes loving her forbidden, no matter how much Thane wants to touch. It sure feels that way at first but once you get to know Thane, you realise that there were no feelings of enmity in his heart in the first place. Honestly I was excited for this book once I read the first one but man did it blow my expectations out of the water ! Now I’m NOT accusing anyone of anything and I won’t ever deny that every piece of literature takes inspiration from other pieces of literature.

Like I get what the author was trying to do with this book, and I think it could have been a lot better if the writing was thought out more and if everything wasn't so shallow and rushed, because when you have cliched YA books like this, there has to be something different about it to make it stand out to other books, and instead, it just felt like she took a bunch of pieces from other YA books and put them all into one. Somehow she did barely anything with all that venom though and just ended up following all of Thane's boring rules. The book was a longer than I think it needed to be, and some scenes weren't necessary, but it did work.

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She also became really irrational and the stupid plot about her ex and her powers became a tiring excuse of creating “””angst””” and not let the main characters be together after the first 25% of the plot. The push and pull between the characters and the pent up tension between them was equally frustrating but interesting. Layala was not necessarily a traditional pick me but she was definitely “one of the boys” and not like the other girls.Owned by a ruthless Assassin Lord, Scarlett Monrhoe and her two sisters have been trained since they were children to torture and take life. AND then, we entered a heist/quest that did maintain my interest, AND THEN Kearl said heck it, let's throw everything up in the air! The MC went from being this badass "I don't take any shit from anyone" type of personality, to someone who complains about everything. The truth was that all she really did was go to dinner and arrive at events a couple of minutes later than when Thane wanted her to. The fact that Thanes mom and sister were so utterly incompetent and venomous harpies even though they had a first-row seat to the prior kings' vile ways.