Primal of Blood and Bone Review(Rant)
Ahoy! Spoilers ahead!
I don't know why I did that.....
Anyway....
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.

















