Cold Burn of Magic
Ratings8
Average rating3.4
Lila Merriweather lives in a magical tourist town. The Families own it and people come from all over the world to experience the magic and monsters there. Lila doesn't want anything to do with The Families. Her mother spent years working as a bodyguard for them and it got her killed. She may not want anything to do with them, but Fate has other ideas. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Lila is dragged into their world. Can she survive it? I really enjoyed this book. Great story, lots of magic, and I enjoyed reading about the different monsters. I liked a lot of the characters too. Especially Oscar.
1.5 Stars
(1 Star for the promising plot and 0.5 because of the writing style)
I loved the premise of the book but it turned out pretty badly for me. First off, the writing style is nice and easy to read. The problems I had were with the execution of the plot and the characters!
The plot was too overloaded. It felt like there were several novels written into one big plot mess. I loved the Mythos Academy because it was well structured and focused on just fewer themes then this book.
Also the plot was quiet forseen. All the “twists” were super obvious in my eyes and made me sigh through the entire book. That also reminds me of the plotdriven actions of the out-off-character characters (because the plot must have gotten on). I really would have loved to see a strong willed and strong minded character since Gwen from the Mythos Academy was quiet indecisive and a little more reserved in the first books. But here we get an exaggerated character with almost no braincells! I began to dislike Lila after 30 pages because she just was bitchy in my eyes, not the character I was looking for. Her character gets worse and also irrational in further parts of the book. There were many parts were her thoughts suggests a different action then the ones she choose to do. Or times when she changed her attitude in a pageflip! These kind of characters drive me nuts!
The love interest of our special snow flake protagonist (which I don't really mind as a used trope) is a blank sheet of paper for me. I couldn't get to used to him or didn't understand the need for him to be an even more special snow flake (maybe for the ongoing plot but meh). I facepalmed so hard because of the terrible from-one-page-hate-to-pageflip-love forced romance in this book (just for the plot's sake I guess).
I will now rage onto my boxing sack until I get this stupid book out of my head. And hell, I will not read the next books in this series.