#night lore

Rating: 1/5

Review:

The Stars of Ember is the second book in the Night Lore series, and the fifth book in G.B's catalogue. The book follows Ronan, an 800 year old vampire, and Atreya, a Fae woman and the Queen of Ember. The unlikely pair are tasked with travelling the continent in an attempt to escape Atreya's abusive husband, King Ramses, and get to the safety of Solaris and the Rebel King, Eldra.

The cover of The Stars of Ember is gorgeous, and having a warning page at the beginning is a really nice touch to help make sure the reader knows what they're getting into.

It does, however, seem to go downhill from there. There are formatting errors, grammatical errors, continuity errors… and that's just the bare bones of it. The premise of the book seemed like it would be right up my street and everything I like in a novel, but it was poorly executed and genuinely a really difficult read. The action scenes didn't seem to have any pacing, and by action I mean both adventure and spice, but particularly with the fights– there always seemed to be a flashback or a side conversation that ruined the tension that the author was trying to build.

At one point, towards the end of the book, characters were being called the wrong names, paragraphs were being repeated mere pages apart and words were missing from sentences. Throughout, the author seemed to forget what the characters are like, constantly flipping Ronans body temperature from burning hot to ice cold. His heartbeat was also up for constant debate. Sometimes it was silent, dead, and other times it beat slowly, unlike the other humanoids of this world. The book seemed to take twice as long to read as I kept having to flick back and forth to check that it wasn't something that I was confusing, rather than actually being in the text (spoiler alert: it was almost always in the text).

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