This is the fourth book in the devine series. Unfortunately, for me the quality of the series has steadily been going down hill with each book. What started off as a lively, fun novel with a great world and characters you could root for turned into a book where I cared enough about the outcome to finish reading, but just barely. If I could have found a synopsis online I would have stopped listening altogether.
This is a werid novel and all the ingredients are there for a great book (good narrarator, cool story, interesting characters lots of action) but it just doesn’t quite work. It’s like someone made a cake with all the right ingredients and followed the instructions but it still came out tasting bad. I am not quite sure why.
The book is ok, but barely a 3 in my opinion. I had to fight hard to finish this book as it became extremely tedious. One problem is splitting the point of view from a single landon point to two characters. The author kept bouncing back from one view to another so fast I couldn’t really get interested in one story line before he moved onto the next.
Another problem is for some reason this book creates a high degree of frustration for me while reading it. I don’t want a Mary Sue by any stretch but you never feel like the characters are winning they just fail again and again and miraculously pull things out at the end. It’s more like the main characters are led around by their noses by circumstances and the actions of offscreen characters rather than making decisions for themsleves.
It says a lot for the quality of the previous books that I was invested enough to finish this one just to find out how things turned out. It isn’t an awful book, but I just can’t get into this one even though I liked the previous ones. Based on this book I think I will leave the series here as it concludes tidily enough I don’t have enough questions to bother listening to any more in the series.
If you want to see how the series turns out get this book otherwise I’d advise taking a pass.