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  Jocelyn_Phoenix22 января 2025 г.

  I liked the first book. This one was mostly an annoying mess.
  
  It’s extremely repetitive to the point that it’s basically the first book with more wallowing and no deadly trials. The two main characters go through the same enemies to reluctant allies to lovers arc. We discover, again, that the FMC is more powerful than anyone thought. She discovers, again, that her father lied to her. She, again, gives it all up for her hot boyfriend.
  
  Everyone’s motivations are still mostly vague, trite, and hardly distinguishable from one another. Everyone wants the throne and some more power, making the villains indistinguishable from one another and barely distinguishable from the heroes.
  
  The interludes, that provided some backstory for the FMC in book one, just repeat what we already knew about the MMC’s past. There’s a bit of new information where we find out that he had somehow helped the previous king get the throne, but it’s just there. The character doesn’t reflect on it, isn’t affected by it, it doesn’t change or influence anything.
  
  The MMC’s POV doesn’t really sound different from the POV of the FMC, easy to mix up if you don’t read the name at the beginning of the chapter. And I didn’t feel like it added anything significant.
  
  The sex scenes are kind of meh. They also felt a lot out of place, like “we are interrupting your book to give you some smut”, and I just waited for the plot to continue plotting. Which it didn’t, not really: everyone is just basically squabbling over the throne, and then there’s a deus ex machina at the end.
  
  In the first book, the trials part of the plot kind of tied everything together and kept things moving. Here, things kind of move, too, but chaotically, and not in a good way.
  
  The levels of power are so underexplained or overhyped, that there’s no clear understanding of who is more dangerous - and there are no stakes. The two main characters are presented as wielding incredible levers of magic, being next to unstoppable. Okay, cool. But then we get a dude infused with the power of a literal god - and it is not clear how and why he is supposed to be so much more powerful, considering that the power of the main characters comes from gods too… But okay. Then he unleashes magic that “rearranges the world itself” and the MMC doesn’t seem to be affected, they just keep fighting???
  
  The FMC is a disappointment in this book. In the first one, she was active, and angry, and violent. In this book she mostly wallows in her feelings or does whatever other characters involve her in.
  
  Overall, I was thoroughly annoyed and barely managed to finish the book.
  

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