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Iris
May 02, 2015 rated it it was ok
Shelves: read-in-2015
As long as you are alive, there's always a chance things will be better.

I finally finished this book. I found it quite boring, all over the place. Everyone says this series are amazing and I fail to see the appeal. I like it, but I don't love it.

The book is told from everybody and their mama's perspective. We have Karou, her friends, Akiva and his siblings, that Sveva chick (view spoiler).

The first 300 pages are dull, nothing really ha
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Desiree M ~*~*~ LiveReadCollect
4 stars.

What an ending to the second book.

I loved this book, not as much as the first, but this was still an amazing installment. Laini Taylor writes so beautifully that I get sucked into the world she creates.

The story was a little slow going for the first 300 pages but then it starts to pick up and it's hard to put the book down.

While I don't blame Karou for feeling how she does about Akiva, it still hurts seeing them so far apart. DoBaS just tore at my heart and when I felt it starting to
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Athena Macmillan
So impressed with the second book - I liked it even better than the first. Too often a second book in a trilogy reads more like a filler leading up to the third, but this stood strong in its own right. I enjoy Koura as a heroine. She doesn't mope. She doesn't collapse in a heap when her love story goes wrong (as so often happens in the second book - one stereotype this book does hold to). Instead she pulls herself together and builds a kick ass army. She doesn't need rescuing. She keeps a level ...more
Mary Bronson
Jan 08, 2013 marked it as to-read
Andrea Lujano
Jan 15, 2013 marked it as to-read
Jamie Dubois
Jan 17, 2013 marked it as to-read
Elle
Feb 21, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: ya-fiction
Kate
Oct 15, 2018 rated it really liked it
Melanie
Feb 11, 2014 rated it really liked it
Megs
Mar 07, 2014 marked it as to-read
Erin
Apr 09, 2014 rated it liked it
Mauzi
Aug 01, 2014 rated it really liked it
Joni
Oct 04, 2014 marked it as to-read
Brooklynn
Jan 21, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: read-in-2015
Skandia
Mar 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Kme_17
Apr 17, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: audio, yap-f, 2015
Stephanie
Nov 25, 2015 marked it as to-read
Megan
May 30, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 5-star-reads
Marscha
Dec 04, 2016 rated it it was ok
Sumana
Jun 12, 2018 rated it it was amazing