Seven Black Diamonds
Ratings9
Average rating3.3
3 stars. The fae world is intricately made, and all the different characters catch your attention. I liked it, it's not a favorite though, but I'm worried that the next book might not be as good...
This didn't engage me the way the Wicked Lovely series did, but it was still entertaining enough. Not going to jump on the next book. Maybe in a few months or so.
2.5 stars
I like the concepts of this book way more than I enjoyed the execution. There were a lot of fascinating concepts left at the wayside. Eco-terrorism? Racism? Hyper-hierarchical societies? Lots of back-stabby politics? All of these were POSSIBLE and never exploited to their full extent. Several character were just... there and not explored at all (yeah, let's introduce a closeted, gay native american half-fairy terrorist son of a politician and not explore literally ANY of that.)
Somewhere around 85% of the way in Marr finally let Lily do things, at which point the politics snapped into focus and there were actual actions and plot points with relevance and consequences. But those plot points basically threw out the rest of the book– the not-really-love-triangle, the eco-terrorism, and really everything the Black Diamonds had done up until that point.
This was a really disappointing book.
From all the books that I've read in my life, this is the first about fairies... Yeah, shame on me!
I truly didn't know what to expect from this story, especially because I wasn't quite sure if I would enjoy it or not. However, I was kindly surprised because the story totally grab me. I read this in one sitting and couldn't take my eyes off the book.
The story is unique. The characters were interesting and I loved how the scenes changed from one character to another. However I didn't find many turns in the plot. It was an OK read but not amazing, still, I recommend it!
I won this book through GoodReads and I thank to the publisher for providing me this copy but this fact didn't influence the review.