LunaReadsBooks reviewed Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Assistant and the Villain, #2)
I fear the pining needs to stop.
3 stars
The plot in the last 20% of this book wandered places I do not understand at all. I think too many things were happening, and the author needed to leave everything on a dramatic cliff hanger, but in doing so, all of the magical aspects of this book just made zero freaking sense. I think a lot of fantasy novels in the middle of series tend to have this problem, but this one suffered HEAVILY from it. Though the first half was fairly coherent. And then there’s the romance…SIGH…there’s a point where slow burn isn’t cute and angsty anymore. Like, YOU’VE LOOKED LONGINGLY AT HIS STARTLINGLY TWINKLING EYES ENOUGH GIRLFRIEND, PLEASE JUST KISS HIM, YOU TWO ARE DRIVING ME INSANE. Honestly, at the end there I was just rage reading. But even so, despite this VERY mid book, I WILL be reading the third one when it comes out, because …
The plot in the last 20% of this book wandered places I do not understand at all. I think too many things were happening, and the author needed to leave everything on a dramatic cliff hanger, but in doing so, all of the magical aspects of this book just made zero freaking sense. I think a lot of fantasy novels in the middle of series tend to have this problem, but this one suffered HEAVILY from it. Though the first half was fairly coherent. And then there’s the romance…SIGH…there’s a point where slow burn isn’t cute and angsty anymore. Like, YOU’VE LOOKED LONGINGLY AT HIS STARTLINGLY TWINKLING EYES ENOUGH GIRLFRIEND, PLEASE JUST KISS HIM, YOU TWO ARE DRIVING ME INSANE. Honestly, at the end there I was just rage reading. But even so, despite this VERY mid book, I WILL be reading the third one when it comes out, because I still have the blindly optimistic idea that perhaps everything will be perfect in the next book.
