Iris

This book had my interest piqued from beginning to end. What a great and different story. I love the characters and I had a hard time putting the book down. And the last page of the book..

This book was a lot better than Glass Sword (#2), especially with the added perspectives of Evangeline and Cameron. Still, it's still nowhere near the first book.

This is one of the times I somehow keep buying and reading the sequels, hoping the next book will be -at least- as good as the first. Or maybe the next will be. Or the next. Luckily King's Cage was an improvement of Glass Sword.

To be honest, if the next book wasn't already sitting on my bookshelf, I probably wouldn't have continued reading this series

This was an easy and interesting read. I really liked the story and the characters. The writing style.. not so much. It was kind of cringy, especially the ‘teenage puppy love' way the FMC was made to act and the constant ‘swooning' over nothing. Also the continuous use of ‘AF' was super annoying(‘hot AF, sexy AF' etc).

If you can get past that, this book is a really good read. I liked the school setting, the ‘different groups' of students

The story itself was interesting. The supposedly big revelation in the beginning of this book was super predictable and it took quite a long time for them to finally figure it out. That being said, I was curious how the rest of the story would go. There were some other smaller predictable elements, but that's okay.

The writing style was still a little cringy sometimes (strong ‘teenage puppy love' vibes from FMC with a lot of ‘swooning'). Also the use of ‘AF' was still way too frequent but fortunately a lot less than the first book.

In the beginning I had a hard time reading the parts that were supposed to be British English. It was basically just a lot of British swear words in a row. Sometimes it felt like Hudson was some kind of hooligan instead of a posh vampire prince.

3,5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
This story is something I would have liked a lot when I was younger. It's a good example of a fantasy YA book. I loved the mysterious fae land and all the mythical creatures. The story itself was quite predictable to me at some moments. The Iron King and court I didn't see coming and although it was a creative concept I'm not sure if I really liked the Iron Fae characters in this world. But that's because I'm a sucker for the original Fae and Elves and everything about their world. Also, Julie probably didn't write them with the idea for them to be likable