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Uff this book.
The pacing of this book is all over the place. Most of the time the action was interrupted by some flashback narration that imo didn't add much to the plot or a history lesson or a description of the architechture and the design of Yale. I'm all for description and making the surroundings pop out but, in this case, I felt it just hinder the narration a lot, making this book really boring and quite hard to get through. I couldn't care less about the magic or the main mystery since everything was so muddled up with extra information, random flashbacks and changes in the timeline.
If only that was the only problem with it...My biggest issue has to be the drug abuse and the sexual assualts along with their graphic depictions, which seemed to be added for shock value and because this is AN ADULT NOVEL!1!
I didn't find any of them necessary or that really impacted the plot or the characters in a deeper level. Alex has been an addict probably since she was 12, yet we don't see her struggling at all with her addition once she's at Yale.
Additionally, there was no need to have Alex being raped as a child by a ghost to portray how traumatic her life must be like having all those ghosts around.
Then, framing Darlington being drugged against his will and him forcing himself on Alex as a lighthearted moment and then having Alex use it as levarage didn't sit well with me. Specially since it is used as one of the founding moments of their possible romanance. Finally, Mercy's gang rape was just a way to find a clue to solve the mystery and the consequence it must have on her get brushed off quite quickly.
Really disappointed, tbh, so much so that it's making me doubt my enjoyment of her other books.
Uff this book.
The pacing of this book is all over the place. Most of the time the action was interrupted by some flashback narration that imo didn't add much to the plot or a history lesson or a description of the architechture and the design of Yale. I'm all for description and making the surroundings pop out but, in this case, I felt it just hinder the narration a lot, making this book really boring and quite hard to get through. I couldn't care less about the magic or the main mystery since everything was so muddled up with extra information, random flashbacks and changes in the timeline.
If only that was the only problem with it...My biggest issue has to be the drug abuse and the sexual assualts along with their graphic depictions, which seemed to be added for shock value and because this is AN ADULT NOVEL!1!
I didn't find any of them necessary or that really impacted the plot or the characters in a deeper level. Alex has been an addict probably since she was 12, yet we don't see her struggling at all with her addition once she's at Yale.
Additionally, there was no need to have Alex being raped as a child by a ghost to portray how traumatic her life must be like having all those ghosts around.
Then, framing Darlington being drugged against his will and him forcing himself on Alex as a lighthearted moment and then having Alex use it as levarage didn't sit well with me. Specially since it is used as one of the founding moments of their possible romanance. Finally, Mercy's gang rape was just a way to find a clue to solve the mystery and the consequence it must have on her get brushed off quite quickly.
Really disappointed, tbh, so much so that it's making me doubt my enjoyment of her other books.