Another side note, apparently Poppy has lots of ‘…’ in her inner monologues which makes me SO THANKFUL that I am listening to the audiobooks of this series LOL. It’s almost like, the reader knows nothing has happened for the last 200 pages so there’s probably gonna be a plot twist… and there it is. The amount of ~plot twists~ JLA has added to this godforsaken novel has literally taken the fun out of plot twists to begin with. I honestly have absolutely no idea what she is going to fill those books with. It’s like JLA had no idea any of this was going to happen when she was writing the first two books and then added all this stuff in that she needed to drive her plot for the next three. This book was not as addictive in a guilty pleasure sort of was as the first one was, and at least in AKOFAF, things happened? New and interesting characters were introduced? This one felt like such an unplanned, and unedited mess of words. The fact that there is meant to be THREE more of these books absolutely astounds me. The info-dumping, unnecessarily pointless details no one asked for, the comments on Poppy asking questions, Casteel finding her hot when she talks about stabbing things and the all-round general repetitiveness of this book is all exactly the same as the previous one. Honestly, the spelling of the names would have absolutely put me off reading this book in physical form. As a side note, everything is spelled so weird I am SO GLAD I’m listening to this book.

I honestly think that the ratio of interesting events and development to sex scenes was WAY OFF.

To make up for the LACK OF PLOT and any interesting events or developments in the plot or characters or relationships, JLA absolutely used sex scenes to fill out this book instead. Their banter and comradeship (and the fact that most if not all of them turn into wolves, I literally cannot remember if any of them are Atlantian), kept me listening to this book. I have to say that I still love Kieran (fave), Delano and Emil, Naill and Vonetta. JLA has made this book so, incredibly long, and it honestly was like… a boring history book about all these people and different species and bloodlines and ugh, that is like 50% of the book and it killed me. I didn’t even read the physical book, I listened to the audiobook which I ended up ramping to 1.4x speed because, and I repeat, nothing was happening. This book could have done with some SERIOUS editing. It started positively, resolving the cliffhanger which the previous book (A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire) left off. Poppy wasn’t nearly as annoying as the previous two books, but the book itself was just not great.

The crown of gilded bones series