I was thinking that since the release of the 3rd book of the empire of vampire is already scheduled for November, I thought about reading the whole saga from start to finish again.
I can barely remember the moment I decided to risk reading vampire stories, I need that feeling again, no book has made me reflect so much about different things in life. PS. (maybe I was going through dark moments like Gabe, and that touched me a lot) It was love at first sight, Jay can really make you feel distressed reading words haha. Besides, I have to applaud Bon Orthwick for those almost divine illustrations.
This book was an absolute disappointment. I don't even know where to begin. To start off with the beginning didn't really match the end of Soul of Ash and Blood(Don't even get me started of this fan appeasement piece of shit). Then Poppy was in her stasis for almost half the book, oh but wait while she's in stasis she's possessed by Kolis because he *Checks notes* had some of her blood and she had his and that created a sigil on her chest..... The interaction with Attes felt weird like did these people not realize that they created offspring?
Also now Cas and Kieran are fighting over *Checks Notes* Poppy thinking Cas would overreact. Then he proceeds to overreact....
Kieran's basically non existent in this book which annoys me because i love Kieran and also just solidifies that the joining was just fan service, since you know the joining ended up being null and void when it came to Kolis anyway since he can break any bond. Kieran was done dirty this book which is sad and basically the only reason this book progresses is because Kieran basically does Poppy and Cas's job for them, but doesn't get any of the credit.
Cas pissed me off throwing his bitch fit over Poppy asking Kieran to put her in the ground. His whole attitude was extremely toxic throughout the whole book being grumpy, passive aggressive, and then also possessive, which, 'touch her and die' yea sure, but not 'be friends with her and die' I'm surprised Delano was allowed to get close to her.
Delano was also done dirty that was rude and i will not be forgiving about that one.
I guess you could say that in the previous books Cas was 'too perfect' so he had to 'regress' in order to develop as a character. However I just don't think there was a big enough pressure point for him to have flipped like he did and be an absolute asshole the ENTIRE BOOK.
Not to mention all of the new things being introduced in this book??? like this brand new version of a primal just so that poppy, cas, and kieran can be special? but also cas is stronger than poppy and kieran even though poppy is the primal of life and death? like what even is that. Also, Poppy better not come back as some weird ass ascended primal bullshit. i'll be so pissed.
Also Rhahar? Rude. but again Sera and Nyktos 'made a court for him so he wasn't technically a primal, but he also was?' wtf.
It took FOREVER for Sera or Nyktos to make an appearance. I don't know if it was just that as a reader you knew a lot of what was happening already or what, but Poppy, cas, and Kieran seemed extra dumb in this book. Two books ago they made two trips to Dalos to ask/chew out Nyktos and this book no? can't go there? wtf
Also, I guess the reader didn't actually know what needed to be done/what was going on because apparently what we were lead to believe the prophecy meant was completely wrong.
Also the foreshadowing in this book was just not it. Cas getting butthurt about the promise Kieran made to poppy made him seem like he was going down the kolis road especially because he had embers of death i guess. And then Kieran having 'embers of life' giving a parallel to Eythos and Kolis. Also the fact that randomly Cas started calling poppy 'sweetheart' which was what Kolis called Sotoria sometimes was the most random thing i've ever seen. So now Cas is this primal of Death and Destruction because something happened to poppy, even though she's not actually dead, and he just went nuclear on everyone.
So now what? now poppy is with Sera and Nyktos. Cas is evil Cas. the only way to stop him is for poppy to stab him. so are we going to have poppy have to kill her heartmate and then some how recover from that in order to kill Kolis, because YES KOLIS IS STILL FUCKING ALIVE.
Also, WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THE NEW YORK SCENE???? My sister says it's to bring in JLA's other series and tbh if that's the case i don't want to read that series I'm so done with megaverses. A SERIES CAN JUST BE IT'S OWN UNIVERSE IT DOESN'T HAVE TO CONNECT TO OTHER ONES
Anyway i finished the book like two days ago and am still raging about it.
Just finished reading it literally like five minutes ago. This is what my very raw and heated emotions had to say in the form of a note made on the final paragraph of the book:
(Excuse the lack of grammar and punctuation. As stated, I was very heated)
SPOILERS
I’m so tired of this shit. U KILLED DELANO LIKE THE ONLY GOOD ONE BRO THIS CANT BE. No satisfying smut no love no friendship NO NOTHING one new thing after another introducing more things like ok just throw away the plot ig. Cas was a complete asshole this whole book Kieran deserves better poppy is stupid as shit but I especially hate that she can’t fucking stand up properly to cas like call him the fuck out idc if it hurts his feelings. This shit is more convoluted than a yutubers apology video. U have the gods awake and u have sera BUT U DONT USE THEM. WTF. There is a million plot holes and bitch TWO series dealing with fucking kolis for u to say that it’s an actually Cas bc he can’t keep his fucking emotions under control.GET A FUCKING GRIP. I get being upset about them not tellingu but bitch LET IT GO it’s fucking logical she didn’t ask u by the way u reacted. And poppy she was doing great but bbg i need u to be proactive. Kieran wasn’t there half the time. All that teasing about the joining but u introduced Helena, which btw went no where, AND YALL DIDNT FUCK. Like what is the point of yall being be mad w each other the whole time. Poppy not questioning it too like girl yk something’s wrong DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT GODDAMN. Millie is just a fucking useless character bc wtf does she do and what’s the point of her if it was always about sotoria and Cas. I HATE that Cas is more powerful than poppy. I hate that he ended up as attes’ family and I hate that he’s SO FUCKING STUPID. Like u have her in stasis for like half the fucking book and take forever to connect the sotoria dots (STILL DOESNT KNOW LEOPOLD IS ACTUALLY IRES BC SHES FUCKING STUPID) and it’s like the third book where the ending is one gets injured/captured and the other goes crazy. 1.5/10
AND ANOTHER THING! U have Cas be all gifted and powerful w the eather and being a primal of death and whatever BUT KIERAN IS TOO like have him DO SOMETHING. All fucking book everyone is trying not to anger Cas like bitch it’s not cute and it’s not hot that one cannot even HUG poppy without u being an asshole dipshit. I get the whole u touch her and die trope but like bitch is she allowed even have friends??! Like it don’t seem like it if u keep fucking threatening everyone. Weren’t u the one always saying that she’s strong enough to fend for herself but then treat her like a fucking child. ITS CRAZY. And the saying all that shit to her and Kieran and fucking everyone just bc u couldn’t make sense of a fucking plan FUCK ME MAN. And sure u were right about kolis not being in love, but hey idiot BE FUCKIGN RATIONAL AND DISCUSS IT LIKE ADULTS. This whole book was just exposition. Like tell dont show bc they did JACKSHIT THIS WHOLE TIME. No training w the eather, no interactions with prevalent characters (still haven’t resolved Millie or the twins at all). Having isbeth back is so unsatisfying. Like didn’t we spent whole books trying to kill her and when we did it was so good and now all that was for fucking nothing. Basically this series will never end bc the plot is in mars rn and the characters don’t wanna act like adults. GOT IT.
Sera: goodbye cruel world, ash can’t love me so I’m about to die
Nyktos: *razes a mountain getting to Sera, makes out with sera in the middle of a battle, holds sera in his lap while making war plans*
Attes:
Nyktos: *adamantly refuses to let sera die, responds aggressively if anyone says something else is more important than sera, calls sera pet names more than he ever calls her sera*
If this is not how their story ends I will scream. I need them to have some peace and happiness for once.
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Happy release *week* to GLOW! I say that because I’m late with this mini papercraft challenge to celebrate, but what else is new!
A new papercraft to pay tribute to Auren and King Ravinger from The Plated Prisoner Series by Raven Kennedy! The ‘third’ pair from TPP I’ve rendered in paper. Slade having no qualms about skin-to-skin contact with his goldfinch. (Under the right lighting, of course!)
But it’s Auren’s ribbons that are taking center stage in this one. Wrapping around the four-pronged tree, emblem of the Fourth Kingdom. Honestly, Auren’s ribbons were MADE for papercrafting. I love drawing swirly, swoopy things and Auren’s ribbons are seriously my favorite, in craft and on text. And I’m sure, for those who have read up through Gleam, you can only imagine my feelings when I read through it the first time. 😩✨
Auren and Slade from “ Plated Prisoner” by Raven Kennedy🔥🔥🔥.I wanted to draw this scene for so long and now time has come 😉🔥.Enjoy this amazing hot couple 🔥🔥🔥.
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