As a heads up, this book does contain some nudity, pregnancy, miscarriage, and sexual themes. On that note, let's just get into it.
An amazon summary, "In a city on the brink of war, it isn't a king that the people need to save them―but a thief queen from Under.
Yigris is a world divided―where aristocrats in Above rule from grand palaces, and thieves, sex workers, and assassins reign in the shadowy tunnels of Under. When the leaders of Above and Under are both murdered on the same night, the fissure between the two opposite worlds grows and suspicion threatens to break the tenuous peace.
Gemma, a former orphan-thief and new queen of Under, and Tollan, heir to the Above throne, must salvage a truce to rescue the city. But they soon discover that the conflict is far bigger than two murders, as the city falls into an enchanted sleep and a cage of deadly brambles slowly ensnares the streets, buildings, and tunnels of both districts. With the fate of Yigris at stake, only Gemma and Tollan have the power to prevent another civil war from tearing their world apart forever." AMAZON LINK OF JUSTICE
Normally, I write my own book summary, but I'm just going to go with the amazon summary. I just don't think I can write a decent book summary....because I don't really understand this book all that well.
Let me explain.
So the world seems to be divided into the Under and the Above, but I don't think it's actually physically divided into a literal Under and Above. ...there's a lot of random little things that they mention the Under is all in tunnels underground, but then they have a few scenes of running through the city where it seems to be all connected? Or a few comments are made about kind of a neutral-ish factor of the city that seems to be in the middle of them? I don't know, the geography didn't make sense to me.
ANYWAYS. The book starts with the king of above and the queen of under dying. People are trying to figure out who it is, and what their end game is..... until it's suddenly not. It turns into this weird like the new king of above figuring out what he wants his love life to look like or what it could possibly be, and the queen of under trying to be with the one she loves....and then like the plot of the book seems to get in the way, and she gets knocked out a lot and it was a whole hot mess.
We get a lot of back story, fun side characters, kind of get to see more of the world of Under is structured, but lots of mad hate on the Above. We don't even really get a proper look at the Above either which feels bad since we saw so much of the Under.
How the story wraps up is just as confusing as how it began in a way, and while I like the ending, I'm still befuddled as to how we got there. PLUS, the parts without the main characters (King of above and Queen of under) made the most sense out of the entire freaking book. When they took a back seat it made more sense. However, the narration skipped around so much between characters, between scenes, that I got lost so much. Again, see my statement about the actual geography of the world.
Also, the sex themes seemed like such a way to just grab a reader's attention rather than actually do anything with them. Like, kind of served as a plot point, but didn't really accomplish anything except to be awkward and.... weird.
There was also a miscarriage scene, which I always find has to be handled with care because of the very sensitive subject matter. I don't think they did the best at handling it. At handling all of the trauma, emotional ramifications, and everything else that goes with it. It kind of seemed to be in poor taste overall.
I'm mostly left with a feeling of puzzlement over this whole book. Like a definite uncertainty about what the heck I just read.
...happy reading?
Normally, I write my own book summary, but I'm just going to go with the amazon summary. I just don't think I can write a decent book summary....because I don't really understand this book all that well.
Let me explain.
So the world seems to be divided into the Under and the Above, but I don't think it's actually physically divided into a literal Under and Above. ...there's a lot of random little things that they mention the Under is all in tunnels underground, but then they have a few scenes of running through the city where it seems to be all connected? Or a few comments are made about kind of a neutral-ish factor of the city that seems to be in the middle of them? I don't know, the geography didn't make sense to me.
ANYWAYS. The book starts with the king of above and the queen of under dying. People are trying to figure out who it is, and what their end game is..... until it's suddenly not. It turns into this weird like the new king of above figuring out what he wants his love life to look like or what it could possibly be, and the queen of under trying to be with the one she loves....and then like the plot of the book seems to get in the way, and she gets knocked out a lot and it was a whole hot mess.
We get a lot of back story, fun side characters, kind of get to see more of the world of Under is structured, but lots of mad hate on the Above. We don't even really get a proper look at the Above either which feels bad since we saw so much of the Under.
How the story wraps up is just as confusing as how it began in a way, and while I like the ending, I'm still befuddled as to how we got there. PLUS, the parts without the main characters (King of above and Queen of under) made the most sense out of the entire freaking book. When they took a back seat it made more sense. However, the narration skipped around so much between characters, between scenes, that I got lost so much. Again, see my statement about the actual geography of the world.
Also, the sex themes seemed like such a way to just grab a reader's attention rather than actually do anything with them. Like, kind of served as a plot point, but didn't really accomplish anything except to be awkward and.... weird.
There was also a miscarriage scene, which I always find has to be handled with care because of the very sensitive subject matter. I don't think they did the best at handling it. At handling all of the trauma, emotional ramifications, and everything else that goes with it. It kind of seemed to be in poor taste overall.
I'm mostly left with a feeling of puzzlement over this whole book. Like a definite uncertainty about what the heck I just read.
...happy reading?
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