SERPENT & DOVE (Book1) - Published September 2019
BLOOD & HONEY (Book 2) - Published September 2020
GODS & MONSTERS (Book 3) - Expected Pub Date September 2021
Serpent & Dove (the first book of the series) was really good.
5 STARS good.
Our heroine, the witch Lou, has a filthy mouth and a huge heart. The witch hunter, Reid, is all about believing in the church, being proper and burning witches (oops).
It was the perfect tale of enemies-to-lovers romance, with a lot of sarcasm and funny moments in between (and one steamy love scene). There’s also violence, a heist gone wrong, lots of secrets, and a mission to stop the witches from taking over the kingdom.
At the end of this book we were left hoping for a "good vs evil" battle on the second book.
⏭ Fast forward to Blood & Honey ~ this book was 532 pages too long, where 85% of those pages added nothing substantially new to the story, and the entire time I kept asking myself "where is she going with this?" The last 15% of the pages finally delivered some action, where I expected a resolution of sorts, where enemies maybe turned into allies and instead I got...
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CLIFFHANGER
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UGH!
I fell like this book could have been 232 pages, but it was extended to 532 pages to make a trilogy possible, instead of a duology...
Was this a clear case of second book syndrome? Did you read it? What did you think?
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