It made me laugh. I'm glad you left it. I didn't want to read this book. I didn't read this book. I watched your video. I'm glad i didn't read this book.😊@@kimberlyreads
So I actually liked this book a decent bit, but I do agree with you on a lot as well 😂 I went and checked what I wrote because I read it months ago. But I wrote that Arthur was hard (honestly somewhat impossible) to connect to. I really didn’t feel connected to her at all. But I did end up liking the plot. And I think Matteo is the wolf is what I wrote? But I don’t remember it enough to remember why and no one else seems to think that 😂
It cracks me up that we both stopped around the same page count. The difference is I was actually enjoying myself in the beginning. I liked Arthie and Jin's sibling relationship, Spindrift was cool, and I liked the atmosphere. The sudden realization that I was actually pretty bored, the writing was poor, and the weird flirting between Arthie x Laith and also Arthie x Matteo hit me all at once and depleted my mild enjoyment to 0 in a single reading session. It felt like I had a ball of yarn that suddenly exploded and no matter how hard I tried to hold it the threads just slipped through my fingers. I am just so bummed. It's such a cool premise (I even didn't mind all the similarities to Six of Crows) and this is my 2nd dnf after Grady Hendrix's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which was SO good and outside my comfort zone (the 1st dnf after was The Hurricane Wars. Have fun with THAT one once you get there. I only made it like 50 pages and it felt like I had read 150) After those, like you said, I need a freaking win, so next I'm going to read A House of Root and Ruin. I feel like that's got to be a guaranteed 4 star, at least. Plus, it's perfect for spooky season. Here's to hoping your October book club book is good!
Oh man that stinks. Too bad your brain couldn't just pretend it was entertained since there were things that you enjoyed about it 😆 I agree about the premise being so cool and it just wasn't executed well. I literally am refusing to read The Hurricane Wars because I know I'm probably going to hate it and I don't want to get rid of the gorgeous book 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so excited to read A House of Root and Ruin! I hope it's really good
I’m going to be honest, and this might be TMI, but I have such bad fibromyalgia and back pain from a previous back break that I don’t read a lot of books anymore. There are a ton I want to read, and some I’ve started, but I don’t get much done. So I really appreciate the lazy book club. The fact I can go back and feel like I didn’t miss anything makes me happy. I just wanted to tell you that. 😊 I’m also going to look into the blanket you mentioned because I’m always hot but I like being under blankets (it does seem to comfort the pain a little), so that sounds like a great item to try. As for this book, I didn’t expect to like it from the synopsis, so I didn’t even try to read it. I generally don’t like vampire and other monster books, so I don’t think I missed anything, either. It’s too bad the book didn’t work for you, but it sounds like it’s not working for a lot of people. I hope you like her other books more, when you read them.
Maybe it's a love it or hate it type of book...as I have heard such good things about it. And since both Fairyloot and OwlCrate chose this book...it has to be kind of good.... maybe? It's a bummer that you didn't like it. Thanks for sharing ❤
I'm done with poorly written, woke books. I've canceled my Illumicrate subscription because of that. I've also unhauled 37 books; sold some, donated the rest.
You are so naughty! My mouth dropped when you said you DNF'd it lol. It's ok though. If we hate a book then we should know when to throw in the towel. When this book was chosen I was glad because I have two copies of it (Owlcrate and Fairyloot) and put off reading due to the lower GoodReads rating. Of course I didn't read either book I own because I prefer audiobooks. My ADD is difficult to deal with and if I listen to a book I can still fuss around with other things like I need to. I can't sit still and I'm easily distracted. So, I went into this book thinking I might not like it, but because it was the book club pick I had to read it (well not really but it pushed me to) and if I read the physical book I may have hated it. The first half was long leading up to the heist which is supposed to be the main plot but it mixes 3 POV's and 4 characters. Laith was the character that initiated the heist and one of the men to throw a wrench in Arthie's hard shell she put up. It seems that Arthie was sort of the female version of Kaz Brekker in Six of Crows and instead of Greisha magic, it had vampires and half vampires. Finding out she was half vampire wasn't a surprise. I figured she was one not long into the book. One downside to this book is I think I figured out Matteo and his part in the plot that will happen in the next book. I did like it more than I thought I would which I figured I would hate it. My not so clever theory is I think that Arthie is the wolf and that is why Matteo knows so much about her because he is keeping tabs on her and that he created The Athereum and made Penn (Arthie's creator) manage it to make sure another massacre doesn't happen. Also, unbeknownst to Matteo he grew an attraction to Arthie while keeping close tabs on her that might grow in the next book. The story glossed over Penn which was a bit annoying as he seems to be a big part of Arthie's past, so if that doesn't get more detailed in book two I will be annoyed. I put a whole long write up on GoodReads about the book, the main characters, and the gist of it. I don't always put a ton of detail in my reviews (because I'm lazy) but I took the time to dissect a book characters and put it all down in there.
I should have DNF’d this book. I need to get better at doing that! But I personally thought that We Hunt the Flame was boring to the point of being incomprehensible, where I read a hundred pages and was like NOTHING HAPPENED!!! This was no different. Even the heist was boring. I was told so much and shown nothing.
I dnf'd around the time they broke into the vampire head quarters, I realised I just didn't care what happened to these characters. I feel the same way about it making me want to go read six of crows because its a much better book. The who gun thing was so stupid, they first make you think 'oh it's not magical it's just a scam' and then it is magical? It only makes sense if they didn't know it was magical, but it doesn't seem like it would be hard to figure out. I also didn't like any of the Arthie love interest stuff
I'm impressed you made it that far 😅 I only made it to them talking about breaking in. Everything about this book was just so poorly plotted that I agree, I just couldn't care about the characters or anything happening.
Everytime I watch your book reviews/wrap-ups it solidifies that we have almost the exact same taste in books lol. I will now only be taking reading recs from Mrs. Kimberly 🫡
There is no shame in DNFing a book! Life is to short to waste time on books you're not enjoying. I'm glad I didn't pick it up even though I was tempted too. It sounded really interesting but then I saw the reviews and decided not to bother with it.
I hated this book i hated all the characters, none of them were likable. There was no ending. I did go in knowing I would probably not like it because it was a heist. And I don't like it when criminals are the protagonists. I was hoping it would prove me wrong. Instead it was my first 1 star book of the year. I did switch half way through to the audio book to get through it and I thought the narration was horrible too.
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"I should have expected that a book that's written badly by her would also not be my cup of tea." Lovely unintended pun. 😂 17:05
I said it. Heard I said it. Cringed. And then left it in anyway 🤣🤣🤣
It made me laugh. I'm glad you left it. I didn't want to read this book. I didn't read this book. I watched your video. I'm glad i didn't read this book.😊@@kimberlyreads
So I actually liked this book a decent bit, but I do agree with you on a lot as well 😂 I went and checked what I wrote because I read it months ago. But I wrote that Arthur was hard (honestly somewhat impossible) to connect to. I really didn’t feel connected to her at all. But I did end up liking the plot. And I think Matteo is the wolf is what I wrote? But I don’t remember it enough to remember why and no one else seems to think that 😂
It cracks me up that we both stopped around the same page count. The difference is I was actually enjoying myself in the beginning. I liked Arthie and Jin's sibling relationship, Spindrift was cool, and I liked the atmosphere.
The sudden realization that I was actually pretty bored, the writing was poor, and the weird flirting between Arthie x Laith and also Arthie x Matteo hit me all at once and depleted my mild enjoyment to 0 in a single reading session.
It felt like I had a ball of yarn that suddenly exploded and no matter how hard I tried to hold it the threads just slipped through my fingers.
I am just so bummed. It's such a cool premise (I even didn't mind all the similarities to Six of Crows) and this is my 2nd dnf after Grady Hendrix's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which was SO good and outside my comfort zone (the 1st dnf after was The Hurricane Wars. Have fun with THAT one once you get there. I only made it like 50 pages and it felt like I had read 150)
After those, like you said, I need a freaking win, so next I'm going to read A House of Root and Ruin. I feel like that's got to be a guaranteed 4 star, at least. Plus, it's perfect for spooky season.
Here's to hoping your October book club book is good!
Oh man that stinks. Too bad your brain couldn't just pretend it was entertained since there were things that you enjoyed about it 😆
I agree about the premise being so cool and it just wasn't executed well.
I literally am refusing to read The Hurricane Wars because I know I'm probably going to hate it and I don't want to get rid of the gorgeous book
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I'm so excited to read A House of Root and Ruin! I hope it's really good
Funny enough, I am actually keeping The Hurricane Wars because it is so freaking pretty. I will never read it but will keep it as an art piece 😂
I’m going to be honest, and this might be TMI, but I have such bad fibromyalgia and back pain from a previous back break that I don’t read a lot of books anymore. There are a ton I want to read, and some I’ve started, but I don’t get much done. So I really appreciate the lazy book club. The fact I can go back and feel like I didn’t miss anything makes me happy. I just wanted to tell you that. 😊 I’m also going to look into the blanket you mentioned because I’m always hot but I like being under blankets (it does seem to comfort the pain a little), so that sounds like a great item to try.
As for this book, I didn’t expect to like it from the synopsis, so I didn’t even try to read it. I generally don’t like vampire and other monster books, so I don’t think I missed anything, either. It’s too bad the book didn’t work for you, but it sounds like it’s not working for a lot of people. I hope you like her other books more, when you read them.
Maybe it's a love it or hate it type of book...as I have heard such good things about it. And since both Fairyloot and OwlCrate chose this book...it has to be kind of good.... maybe? It's a bummer that you didn't like it. Thanks for sharing ❤
Have not read it yet, droping further down my tbr😬
I'm done with poorly written, woke books. I've canceled my Illumicrate subscription because of that. I've also unhauled 37 books; sold some, donated the rest.
You are so naughty! My mouth dropped when you said you DNF'd it lol. It's ok though. If we hate a book then we should know when to throw in the towel.
When this book was chosen I was glad because I have two copies of it (Owlcrate and Fairyloot) and put off reading due to the lower GoodReads rating. Of course I didn't read either book I own because I prefer audiobooks. My ADD is difficult to deal with and if I listen to a book I can still fuss around with other things like I need to. I can't sit still and I'm easily distracted. So, I went into this book thinking I might not like it, but because it was the book club pick I had to read it (well not really but it pushed me to) and if I read the physical book I may have hated it.
The first half was long leading up to the heist which is supposed to be the main plot but it mixes 3 POV's and 4 characters. Laith was the character that initiated the heist and one of the men to throw a wrench in Arthie's hard shell she put up. It seems that Arthie was sort of the female version of Kaz Brekker in Six of Crows and instead of Greisha magic, it had vampires and half vampires. Finding out she was half vampire wasn't a surprise. I figured she was one not long into the book. One downside to this book is I think I figured out Matteo and his part in the plot that will happen in the next book. I did like it more than I thought I would which I figured I would hate it.
My not so clever theory is I think that Arthie is the wolf and that is why Matteo knows so much about her because he is keeping tabs on her and that he created The Athereum and made Penn (Arthie's creator) manage it to make sure another massacre doesn't happen. Also, unbeknownst to Matteo he grew an attraction to Arthie while keeping close tabs on her that might grow in the next book. The story glossed over Penn which was a bit annoying as he seems to be a big part of Arthie's past, so if that doesn't get more detailed in book two I will be annoyed. I put a whole long write up on GoodReads about the book, the main characters, and the gist of it. I don't always put a ton of detail in my reviews (because I'm lazy) but I took the time to dissect a book characters and put it all down in there.
🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't stop myself from DNFing it.
Dang that is a really good breakdown. That was more entertaining than the book 🤣
@@kimberlyreads 😂
I should have DNF’d this book. I need to get better at doing that! But I personally thought that We Hunt the Flame was boring to the point of being incomprehensible, where I read a hundred pages and was like NOTHING HAPPENED!!! This was no different. Even the heist was boring. I was told so much and shown nothing.
I read like 50 pages of We Hunt the Flame and didn't like it at all, but I'm going to give it another shot. (I don't have high hopes)
I'm a bit sad you didn't like it, but that's okay. I still haven't finished but I'm enjoying it so far.
I love that you're enjoying it! Let me know your rating when you finish it!
I dnf'd around the time they broke into the vampire head quarters, I realised I just didn't care what happened to these characters. I feel the same way about it making me want to go read six of crows because its a much better book.
The who gun thing was so stupid, they first make you think 'oh it's not magical it's just a scam' and then it is magical? It only makes sense if they didn't know it was magical, but it doesn't seem like it would be hard to figure out.
I also didn't like any of the Arthie love interest stuff
I'm impressed you made it that far 😅 I only made it to them talking about breaking in.
Everything about this book was just so poorly plotted that I agree, I just couldn't care about the characters or anything happening.
Everytime I watch your book reviews/wrap-ups it solidifies that we have almost the exact same taste in books lol. I will now only be taking reading recs from Mrs. Kimberly 🫡
🤣 oh gosh. the pressure is on
There is no shame in DNFing a book! Life is to short to waste time on books you're not enjoying. I'm glad I didn't pick it up even though I was tempted too. It sounded really interesting but then I saw the reviews and decided not to bother with it.
It's definitely not worth the time
I hated this book i hated all the characters, none of them were likable. There was no ending. I did go in knowing I would probably not like it because it was a heist. And I don't like it when criminals are the protagonists. I was hoping it would prove me wrong. Instead it was my first 1 star book of the year. I did switch half way through to the audio book to get through it and I thought the narration was horrible too.
It was so bad 😭 I also tried to audiobook to get through the book and that made everything worse so I was just sitting there like "I can't do it."
Oh my goodness-I hated the pacing and two-dimensional characters. I give it a two stars.
Yeah I probably would have given it 2 stars if I had finished it