Loved itthis one is my favorite V Schwab book that I've read and I've read quite a few of hers now I'm going to put our dark duet was a book good for sure
Our Dark Duet (2017)
Others: Mostly positive KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it. AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost. THE WAR HAS BEGUN. THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING. Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in. And a new monster is waiting--one that feeds on chaos and brings out its victims' inner demons. Which will be harder to conquer: the monsters they face, or the monsters within? This description comes from the publisher. Our Dark Duet is the second book in the Monsters of Verity duology, the first of which is This Savage Song.
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- 9781803362151
- Length:
- 495 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Not a fanthis book was just it didn't feel consistent with the first book in this series it was longer than it needed to be the characters felt a little bit inconsistent with the first book in the series
Loved itour dark duet tore my heart to pieces
Loved itI actually read four books by Victoria Schwab this year and any one of these could have been the one I chose for this list because I adored all of these books. Like Victoria Schwab is one of my favorite authors and that has just been like cemented now after I read all of these books because they were all amazing and fantastic.
Loved itI was not expecting to like it whatsoever but I cannot stress how much I love it and I'm the unpopular opinion a lot of people prefer the first book over the second one I cannot gush enough about the second book