I’m not sure how it came that I stumbled upon Silver Elite, I think it might have been a “people who have read this have also read this” kind of situation. I ate this one up, read it when I was supposed to do other things. It highly entertained me but I didn’t think it was perfect. It fits nicely into its genre mould, wasn’t expecting any less from the twists and turns (maybe a bit more brutal than expected). Maybe that is also to the minus side of the story. The big reveal of a person was not possible to be another way to make sense to the story and the turns didn’t surprise. But I enjoyed it. Typically in this genre, the best part has already passed, I enjoyed the start and training. Might give the continuation a go to se the conclusion but I fear that I’ll have forgotten most of the story when the sequel comes out.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night was chosen as my next read because I wanted a series where the next book was already out. The last couple of romantasy books I’ve chosen have been first books where it’s months away to be able to continue (and also where these series usually loose me) so I tried to be more intentional with my choice. It’s been a while since a read a vampire book (unless there was vampires in Quicksilver?) and it’s always interesting to see how an author chooses to portray the vampire world.

Some things don’t work in this book, like how much the main character was dependent on someone else to even have a possibility to win the trials. And how in the world her dad who sees her as very fragile even would believe she could succeed. I didn’t really get the living situation in the competition and how little interactions they had with the other contestants outside of the competitions. But I think the way the competitions were structured and that they actually had a big part of the story made sense. The ending made me a bit annoyed but I’m not sure how I would make sense of having it different with all this buildup. I guess I’ll have to continue to the next book in the series.

The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King didn’t hook me the same way the first book in the series did. I thought that it was a good continuation in the series and I really liked that they made it a duology instead of a trilogy. I did enjoy it though and am glad that I read it. The next book in the series follows a different main character, I haven’t decided yet if I want to give it a go. For now I am satisfied with this dose of the world.

I picked up Som i en countrylåt (Como en una canción country) because the premise sounded cute (I wanted to give another cowboy book a go) and because it was written originally in Spanish. I was sadly a little disappointed. It felt like this was a draft to a book that didn’t get a chance to bloom out, it had potential to be a bit more. One thing that I thought a little extra on while reading was the way it changed perspectives between characters midway chapters, I thought it was a bit clever done but I think some readers might find it a bit confusing.