Listeners are immediately immersed in the story through their amazing voices. Lilly Drake and Curt Bonnem are both to be commended for bringing the story to life with their excellent narration. Clair's writing is atmospheric and captivating. If you love spice, this audiobook definitely has plenty, but it is so much more. There is something delicious about the love story between Adrian and Isodle. The plot was easy to follow even though I hadn't read the first book. Since this is the second book in the series, I came into this reading blind. Clair Narrated by Lilly Drake Curt Bonnem (audiobook review) Queen of Myth & Monsters (Adrian X Isolde #2) by Scarlett St. But, like I said before I read this one … I told you so. So much potential with this series.Īnyway, more review coming, I have a lot of other things I want to say. I’m still not even totally sure what was happening there at the end because so much is devoted to other things rather than actually giving us the story beyond whatever relationship drama is unfolding at the time. I had to go back in my audiobook a couple minutes just to make sure because it was so abrupt. I don’t even know if I would call it a cliffhanger, because it feels like the book simply ends mid-thought, sentence incomplete. It’s all just so repetitive and basic and truly overwrought.Īnd then it just … ends. I can only think of one, maybe two sex scenes that felt natural for the moment and actually intriguing. And they fight at least once between almost every single one of those scenes. They have sex (not always intercourse) 11.5 times in the main book (.5 for a hypothetical but described sex scene) and !THREE times in just the bonus scene at the end alone. The pacing is jarring and all out of whack at times. It’s disappointing because there is A LOT that seems to be happening in this book or should be happening, that is completely glossed over, vaguely alluded to, or flat out skipped completely. Nothing is gained from it, but so much potential is taken away.

But the repetitiveness of it just doesn’t fit in this story. I want to read the most explicit of the explicit. So much of the first half of this book is fight then sex then fight then sex, and sometimes fight fight then sex and sometimes sex sex then fight and well … you get the picture. (I loved A Touch of Darkness and the Hades saga has been a pretty solid 4 stars for me!) Reviews so far are pretty spot on and I’ll write a more thorough review over the weekend but once again, a lot of the issues I’ve had with A Touch of Ruin, A Touch of Malice, and King of Battle & Blood are repeated or even exacerbated I this one.

I’ve read it! I am glad Isolde wonders if all her and Adrian are ever going to do is fight and fuck, because I’m wondering that as well!

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