Has anyone ever read Something Dark and Holy, by Emily A Duncan ? Because the Russian context and the Nadya and Malachiasz story intrigue me...

Just some great quotes from the Something Dark and Holy trilogy

Nadya, girl, I need you to stop thinking with your pussy and to start thinking with your brain because this is NOT working.

Ok, about blessed monsters: I'm almost finished and it's my favorite book in the trilogy, Nadya, Malachiasz and Serefin are impeccable from start to finish, how I love them!

Malachiasz: amasses dark power in abundance through evil

Malachiasz: 👁👄👁

Malachiasz: eats the entire thing yum yum yum dark power

Malachiasz:

👁👁 👁👄👄

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👄👁👄

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my favorite parts of fantasy novels are the clothing descriptions hhh,, like the entire book could be shit but if I get a description of a mysterious ball gown? all of forgiven.

also I am taking recs lmao

Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy #1) by Emily A. Duncan

I don't have strong opinions either way on this one. I was reminded a lot of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse (which, funnily enough, Duncan shouts her out in the acknowledgements for being an influence on her), so I felt like I'd already read a version of this story. I also felt like the teenage angst/hormones got to be a bit much for me by the end of the novel. The story was interesting, though, and the pacing kept things moving. I'm not sure I'll be checking out the sequel, but this held my attention as a YA fantasy.

Wicked Saints

Overall:

-     The whole time I was reading this book I felt like I was missing something.  Like I felt 3 steps behind the story at all times, and not in a good way.  It felt like I missed a lot of information that was supposed to help you understand the whole book.  I also found the dialog to be overly complicated a lot of the times. Like the characters were either talking in circles or just having long winded monologues that were unnecessary.  I did feel like the relationship between Nadya and Malachiasz was very similar to Alina and the Darkling.  But I have a feeling that it will eventually turn out different for them.  I’m hoping that the second book in this series makes a little more sense than this one.  Maybe I won't feel so out of place because it'll be the second in the series and I should know what's going on.  

- Rating: 3/5

Books where the main character is the villain:

All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman

The poppy War by R.F Kuang

Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

I forgot Serefin and Kacper have like a thing.

My favorite character in the Wicked Saints series I’ve become obsessed with, his name is Malachiaz. Everyone NEEDS to read those books.

This was a great series to read, I loved all three books and was sad that I won’t get to read more about the fantastic characters. Duncan does a great job at building this world of gods and monsters where the lines between the two become more blurred as the story progresses. I really recommend reading these books, they might be my new favorite fantasy series!

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"Поэтому, вместо того, чтобы вникать во множественные заговоры, Серефин решил сделать то, что у него получалось лучше всего: употребил просто фантастическое количество алкоголя"

Эмили А. Дункан "Жестокие святые"