Goodreads synopsis:
Rumor Mora fears two things: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish.
But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.
Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she’s in love with Dahlia, her best friend. Braeden Tennant wants two things: to get out from his mother’s shadow, and to unlearn Epsilon’s darkest secret.
They’ll both have to commit treason to find the truth.
During one twenty-seven-hour night, if they can’t stop the war between the colonies and the monsters from becoming a war of extinction, the things they wish for will never come true, and the things they fear will be all that’s left.
update feb 11, 2018:
There is nothing I can say to take back the fact that I stood up for this author, that I went to bat for her endlessly and took her side of the story over other sides I was presented with. I can’t take any of that back. All I can do is say that, if I ever made you feel like it wasn’t safe to tell me what she had done, or how her actions made you feel, I am so, so genuinely sorry. My heart is breaking today for anyone she has hurt, and I will certainly not be supporting her work in the future. I’m taking down my review because anything positive I had to say about her supposed attempts at diversity and activism have been refuted by her actions.
11 Comments
Great review!
Thank you so much! ❤
great review! i really want to read this one! 🙂
Thank you so much! ❤ I really do recommend it and I hope you like it!
i hope so too! ?
Simply reading about the characters had me going: GIMMEH. I can’t imagine there being a lot of books out there with such a broad spectrum of characters as the main cast. Adding this to my TBR – although the comments on the writing did put me off a bit, but I feel like it’s still worth reading anyway. 😀
Right?! That’s what made me request the ARC to begin with – that diversity! ❤ It is DEFINITELY still worth a read, it just wasn’t quite perfect, but I have the utmost confidence that book 2 will be a 5-star read for me – practice makes perfect and all that. ?
That’s true! Imagine the books this author can write as soon as THE writing voice has been found? They always have some growing to do – as does everybody when it comes to anything at all really. xD
Exactly! 😀 I would always rather see a debut with unpolished writing and a great plot than the other way around, because one of these things is much easier to improve upon than the other, IMO!
Completely true! Having the skill to put together a good plot is just.. well.. necessary if you want to write a book. I can’t even imagine it being easy to have to learn doing that?
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