Reforged

read for a book club. Enjoyed several aspects, but wish more time was spent on characters and their relationships rather than the battle tactics. Or fleshed out the magic more, but again, lots of battle tactic build-up for that to not be the point. Could use more editing refinement--several words were VERY overused throughout. The sex scenes were enjoyable but it took far too long to get there and without a focus on the relationship and its slowburn, it's frustrating, but not in the way it should be.

If you're into dnd, it'll be more of your thing, but at times it felt like it was throwing in more dnd aspects just because, and not because it supported the story.

It was not really for me. I thought the pacing was off and the characters and their interactions were awkward. The world building was interesting enough though.

I actually was not going to read this book because I didn't know where to get an e-arc of it. THEN I went onto Book Sirens (a site to receive e-arcs) for another book, but that wasn't available. I just decided to scroll on the site a bit. And then I happened to see this and I clicked SO FAST because this has definitely been an anticipated release and I was so happy to have read it ahead of its release.

As I said earlier, I started this after I finished Lightlark – as much as it gave me extreme amounts of annoyance (so so much) – it was definitely the right choice to go from Lightlark to Reforged. The reason I say this is because Lightlark... is a really bad book (of course that's just my opinion). Reforged made me remember why I like fantasies and adult fantasies so much. I read YA Fantasy most of the time but this just makes me want to go back to Adult Fantasies (or just find my favourites and reread them constantly