Honestly, I don't think this series is for me. I cannot stand the two main characters. I find all of their actions to be so contradictory and for all they have been through they are way too trusting, naive, gullible. They throw themselves so easily in to traps and the only way they survive is divine intervention. The book was also too long, there were many things that could have been cut or condensed. I particularly cannot bear Reid. He continues to be chauvinistic, emotionally abusive, pig headed, he runs into danger, and he is just most of the time an asshole to everyone around him. He continues to denounce magic, as though he was not able to save Lou because of it. He treats Lou like a ticking time bomb of evil and has hardly any kind words for the people actively trying to stop Morgane and help him and Lou. He blames Lou for things she has little power over, or for hiding things from him that she knows would hurt him or cause him to (surprise) act irrationally and put them all in jeopardy. Lou deserves way better (even while she is losing her mind to her magic)! I do not understand Lou's attraction to Reid. So he's good looking, so what. His character is poor, his friends awful. He belittles who she is and what she can do, he does not denounce the church that would have her killed in seconds. He literally murdered a child because the child was a werewolf...sounds like a stellar guy. She just seems to be thinking with her labido, so it makes her a frustrating character. And everyone just plays along with them loving each other, as though it makes any sense. The best characters are the three side characters, Beau, Ansel, and Coco. Let's have a book with just them, and maybe it could be that Coco be with both of them. Just saying...I would be way more invested and interested in that book. The carnival group was a neat added plot device. Witches that travel and put on shows. They actually want to just live in the world, not fight it like everyone else in this book. Sigh. I would have loved more information on them, their backgrounds. Claude was funny, lending levity to a heavy book with no real relief from the dredge, death, and annoying Lou and Reid moments. Also, I am not a fan of the voice actor for Reid in the audiobook. I am starting to suspect my picking up the physical book might make me like it (and maybe him) more. Maybe I will do that for book 3, since I asked for the series as a gift before reading it. Oops!
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