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For more infomation >> Lívia Andrade posa de biquíni cavado no 'limite' e arrasa: 'Maravilhosa' | Entretenimento Plus - Duration: 4:51. Hey! What's up, you guys? It's Connor, and today I'm gonna be doing a book review for Our
Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab. I did a book review for the first book in the
series which is right here, and I'll leave that linked up in the
card symbol and you can check it out if you would like to. But today we're gonna
be talking about Our Dark Duet. This duology is set in a city called Verity,
and in Verity violent acts create actual monsters and have actual repercussions.
For violent acts that don't result in death corsai are created, and they
feast on someone's body. The malchai are created when there is a
singular murder that's made, and they feast on humans' blood. And the sunai are
created from mass killings. They feed on impure souls by playing music which brings
the soul to the surface of the body, and then they consume it. In this series you
follow two characters. You follow a girl named Kate who is the daughter of one of
the leaders of Verity. The city of Verity is split into two different parts.
One is controlled by this guy named Callum Harker who is Kate's father. He's
a very corrupt leader, and he sells people protection from the monsters
instead of guaranteeing protection for all of his citizens. Kate wants to follow
in his footsteps and act more monstrous. The other character you follow is a boy
named August, and he lives on the other side of the city. And he is the adopted
son of the leader on that side Flynn, and August is actually a monster. He's a sunai,
and so he feasts on people's impure souls. And it follows these two as
they're living in this city that's been divided for so long. The two sides are at
war against each other, and they are trying to just make it through. As usual
with my book reviews, I'm gonna go through my pros, go through my cons, give me my
rating, and be done. My first pro for this book and I guess Victoria Schwab in
general is that I think she just has a very creative mind, and I really like all
of the ideas she comes up with for novels: the idea that music brings the
soul to the surface of a human and then these monsters are able to consume those
souls; the idea that monsters are created from violent actions that humans are
creating so they're creating their own monsters physically instead of, like,
mental monsters that people have in their heads; the different types of monsters;
everything like that. I really loved the idea of the
world. It has so much potential and I feel that same way with a lot of her
other books at least the ones that I've read... which is Vicious.,I read the first
two books in the Shades of Magic series, and I read her Achived duology/
series? It never got finished... but then I don't really love the execution as much.
Victoria Schwab is a little bit like Garth Nix for me where I love the ideas
that Garth Nix comes up with but then I'm never wowed by any of the books when I
actually do read them. That's kind of what happens every time I pick up a
Victoria Schwab book except for Vicious. I did really enjoy Vicious. So pro
number one: she's super creative. I love her ideas, and as a person, she's a great
person as well. I follow her on Twitter. She's awesome. Another thing that I liked
about this book was that there's a new monster that's introduced. This monster
is way different than all of the other monsters that we have come across in the
first book, and with this one they don't really know how it was created. And it
doesn't feast physically on humans. I don't want to talk about the monster too
much because I don't want to spoil anything, but I liked how it affected
Kate a lot. And I liked how it affected the story. It was just a very good
addition to this series. I love August. August was the best character in this
book. I really enjoyed reading his perspective, and all of the point-of-view
chapters that he was the leader of, I was down for those. I really enjoyed them.
He's one of those characters that you just can't help but root for. You just
want him to be happy, and you just want him to succeed. He's a lot more of a
downer in this book admittedly, but he's having to deal with a lot of the
repercussions of what happened in the first book and it's understandable. And I
still just wanted him to be happy. I read this book on audiobook, and I think that
the audiobook really allowed me to get through this novel. It's not the shortest
of novels, and I think that I would have been so annoyed by the writing style if
I was having to read it that I would not have finished this book. So thank you,
narrator. I forgot your name. Let me go look it up.
Therese Plummer? And the last pro that I'm going to talk about for this book is
that I really enjoyed some of the side characters. Ilsa is my favorite character
in the whole series. Her ethereal presence is something I just really
enjoyed whenever she was on the page. I also enjoyed August's father Flynn as a
character in this a lot more. I thought that he was a lot more
understandable. I think I could feel for him a lot more in this book, and I also
love the fact that Flynn's wife had a lot more page time in
this because I thought that she had a lot of emotional investment into what
was happening in Verity. I think that the side characters got a little boost in
page time in this book or at least I noticed them a lot more than I did when
I read the first one. That's it for my pro. Now let's talk about my cons. My
first con is that Kate is not in Verity at the very beginning of the book - that's
not the con - but she has some friends that are in Prosperity, and I feel like
those friends were a huge missed opportunity. They could have been so
important to the story, and they just weren't at all. There's literally no
reason for them to be in the story, and because of those friends, it actually
makes me hate Kate a lot more. I do not like Kate. I think she is a very annoying
character, and I know that just saying someone was annoying as a cop-out. But
she is so annoying about everything. Her motivations make no sense at all
throughout the entire series. She does not make one choice that makes any type
of sense... ever. At the beginning of the book she's like, "I hate people. blah blah
blah. I hate having friends. I would never want to have friends." She, like, ends up
running back to Verity to save people. Whatever.
If she hates people so much, she shouldn't even care to go back to Verity to save
people. She should just keep going . She just makes no sense. I don't know why in
the first book she wanted to be so monstrous. That didn't make sense at all,
and she made little sense in this book as well. So she... sucked. I just hate her.
I just hate Kate. She's not cool . She's not a rebel. She's just a spoiled brat
with a superiority complex and no self-preservation. I think that is one of
my biggest cons with this series is that one of the main characters that you get
the most point of view from is intolerable, and I didn't like her. So it
affected my reading experience a lot. I thought that although the secondary
characters got a little bit more time, they were not fleshed out at all. I think
Victoria Schwab has a little trouble fleshing out side characters. I thought
Ilsa was gonna have such a bigger impact on this book, and she just doesn't. And it
just is so frustrating to see so much potential, and then it not really do
anything. If she really fleshed out these secondary characters, I would care about
them a lot more and I would care about the
the entire world and the entire plot a lot more. I would be able to connect to
the people of Verity as a whole if you're able to connect with multiple
characters in that world, but because the only character I cared about was August,
I didn't care about Verity. I didn't care about if everyone died because I didn't
like anyone because they weren't real people to me. They were just these
characters that were floating around just hanging out. I usually say
one of my pros is that Victoria Schwab's writing is so easy to get into and to
get through. You can read her books very quickly, but in this one I started
getting so frustrated by the number of times something is described and then
described again and then described again in very similar terms. She would say
something like, "She completed a sentence. A group of words. Something with a noun...
and a verb." And I was just like, "This is too much! This is happening so often that
I am rolling my eyes at least once a chapter because it's nuts how many times
that happens." I wish I had started counting at the beginning of the book
because then I would be able to actually show you guys exactly how many times it
happens because it's so many! I felt like the writing in this was trying too hard
to be dramatic and important in some way, and it just missed for me. And I also
thought that there was less musical terms that were involved. I remember one
of my pros for the first book was that I really liked how they kept this music
thing going throughout the whole thing. I didn't notice them nearly as much
in this. I could have been focusing on describing the same thing over and over
and over again in three different segments but saying the exact same thing
that I missed them. But I didn't notice them as much in this one, so that was a
con. There are so many parallels between this book and Twilight. I at some point
just started laughing because it was so similar.
It could have veered so far away from this Twilight vibe that was happening in
the first book, but it went straight for it and kept it going. Not that Twilight
didn't do very well. Obviously this book is well loved, so I think Twilight might
still be lingering around in people's minds. But I didn't personally like it.
And the last con that I'm gonna talk about is that it just seemed like the
characters were bopping around during this book. There wasn't a clear goal that
anyone had and was working towards consistently.
It was more "let's wait around for something to happen and then react to it...
let's wait around for something to happen, and then let's react to it." There
was a lot less drive for the characters in this book than there was in the first
one. They had goals in the first one. They were working towards those goals in the
first one, and in this one they were just floating in no-man's land until
something would happen. And then they had to react to it. One pro I forgot to
mention was that I did like the ending of this book. I did like ending because
it was very satisfying! I saw it coming, but I'm glad that it ended that way. So...
great ending. So overall I had a decent number of cons. I had some pros though. I
did enjoy the novel. I enjoyed the story overall. I enjoyed the idea, so I think I
ended up giving this book three stars. Would I recommend this?... it depends. I saw
so many people review this book with "it devastated me. It broke me. It killed me."
So I would recommend it because it seems a lot of people enjoy it, but I
wouldn't have as high of expectations for it because I think then you might be
disappointed. So that's my review on Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab. I do not
know why I was a little more salty in this video than I was expecting to
become. If you liked it, please give it a big thumbs up and comment down below if
you've read this duology before. Did you have similar thoughts to mine? Did it
break you? Did it devastate you? Are you now dead?
Anything else you want me to know, leave it down below, and I will talk to you
guys next time. Bye! <finger gun and clicking noise>
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