![]() Sure, Dutch people DO complain about the weather the whole time, but seeing her describe the winter of her new place as "mild and wet" and worrying about that. She is Dutch and keeps complaining about the rain. I guess it makes sense but the whole "Everyone around me suddenly started talking in a weird language until I asked them what they were saying, then they realised." Not quite how bilingualism works. Thankfully it stayed with one word, but there was also a lot of Greek (Old Greek?). I was only two pages in and boom, a word in a different language (which seems to be a bit of a pet peeve of mine), namely Dutch. The difference is, when I first read Twilight, I actually liked it. So, this book is basically, what if we had Twilight, but with Demi-gods instead of Vampires. I will refrain from giving it any rating though because I got super ranty and probably shouldn't have picked up a YA trilogy in the first place, haha. It's a shame, I was hoping for some guilty pleasure reading to commence here. I always like the bad boy, or alternative choice more. So he just plays a bunch of mind games but plays the victim when the heroine calls him out on his crap because the rules he has to follow are such a cruel mistress. It's just a bunch of back and forth because they like the heroine, but destiny (or fate, or rules etc) dictate he can't be with her. Sure, technically they're the good guy but come off as so angsty and a total jerk. I never like the actual "good guy" love interest in these kinds of books! I'm a weirdo, I know. YET, she's got demigods (yes, finally, we learned who these other guys are) chasing after her tail.Īlso, just a little side note. Again I can't really find a positive thing to say. She had no motivation to look into college. Didn't like any sports, music, art, school. On top of that, this girl was a bore! She had zero interests. And I guess I do appreciate that she wasn't the usual trope of "I have no idea how attractive I am to the opposite sex but am the hottest things to walk this earth." But, she always commented (and other people as well) on how haggard she looked and put no effort into personal grooming to at least look a little put together. The next thing I'll touch upon is the heroine. It's just unexplained back and forth musings and interactions until 60% when FINALLY some of the actual background comes into play. It really lacked finesse and I feel like the plot just got stuck in a hole it couldn't get itself out of. The writing was definitely juvenile and the story so scattered. Unless it's extremely well written, YA just makes me frustrated usually. And I feel like at this point, I should know better. I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. B - It is a trilogy, so maybe it was just taking a while for this story to find its groove. I stuck it out because A - I love Greek mythology fantasy/pnr adaptations. I was forseeing a DNF at 9% and lasted this long. Still, Sam is determined to stop Laurel from meeting her doom, even if that means he has to make a drastic move that will separate them for good. Sam may be the only one who can help her escape her destiny, but then she has to start trusting him again, and time is of the essence because he has his own fate to deal with. And when she learns the dark truth about her own future, a sinister secret that will change everything as soon as she turns nineteen, she wants to run and hide, but soon realizes that there is no hiding from fate. Then Laurel finds out about Sam’s ominous ancestry and a whole different fear arises. Why does he keep interfering in her life? But it’s not until she meets the proud and mysterious Sam Laurens that she feels something strange is going on. She is now exactly where some higher power wants her to be. When 17-year-old Laurel Harper decides to go live with her estranged father and stepfamily, she’s unaware of the fact that her fate was already sealed the day she was born.
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