Loved itBasically, I wanted something atmospheric and dark. Anything that can make me feel the way that I felt when I was reading One Dark Window for the first time.
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One Dark Window (2022)
Others: Leaning positive An ancient, mercurial spirit is trapped inside Elspeth Spindle's head - she calls him the Nightmare. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, she is thrust into a world of shadow and deception. Together, they embark on a dangerous quest to cure the town of Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. As the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
- ISBN:
- 9780316597234
- Length:
- 396 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Loved itI did read One Dark Window and I did enjoy it. I never went on to read Two Twisted Crowns. I want to and I gave it four stars. I think it was like pretty solid.
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Loved itI really enjoyed one dark window so I'm very keen to continue with two twisted crowns which is the completion of this duogy as well.
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MixedHonestly, it has a lot of elements that I usually love on their own. Unfortunately, I don't even quite know what to say about this book. That just didn't do it for me.
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NeutralShe also is known for writing One Dark Window, a duogy I have read and just sort of found to be okay.
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MixedThere was just some there was some quality about One Dark Window, even though I gave it like a 2.75 or something that made me think Rachel Gayy could be the one for me.
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MixedI finally decided to pick this one up, and I had so much fun reading it. It is not by any means the best fantasy I've ever read or a perfect book, but it was really fun. I loved the characters. It just felt like a big dark fairy tale.
Loved itthe first book I did give four stars the first book was a little confusing to get into it did kind of take me 100 to 150 pages to really get into the story but once I did I was loving it
Not a fanI was really surprised by how bad this one was especially considering how hyped it is I found it really tonally inconsistent badly written very repetitive anachronistic very shallow in its atmosphere building and almost non-existent in its World building and then you get a romance that was hardly developed