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A review by snackpocket
The Gates of Guinée by Alys Arden
3.0
This book made me angrier than any book has ever. I dislike Adele and Nicco so much and I’m so infuriated it’s like they’re honeymooning in my head resort fee-free.
Isaac fucked up in book 3 (in a very ACOTAR, but out of nowhere way) but more than made up for it by going to the underworld, getting a scolding/attitude adjustment by Susannah, giving Nicco blood and taking Mac’s parasite soul and Adele still goes home with Nicco?
Honestly, Adele is the worst. She’s an immature 16 year old who thinks she can mediate the end of a centuries old blood feud just by finding Leon.
I think my favorite parts of this book are when Adele promises Nicco that nothing in his past could change how she feels about him and when he comes clean about killing Adeline, she’s like “I gotta go”; and when she spends 10 minutes convincing Nicco that he’s “a lamb” and she knows he’ll never hurt her so he’ll drink from her and the second his teeth come near her neck she’s like “Nicco, no!”
And why does the whole Coven act like Adele can do no wrong when she doesn’t trust any of them to help her and acts like they’re useless to her? She’s a bad friend.
She decides to run off in the middle of getting her dad home to give him a magical handjob in the bell tower while ignoring all of her coven’s emergency phone calls.
Adele was so reckless after Callis kidnapped Mac but now that he’s possessed she just leaves him at Dee’s and goes home to have sexy time with Nicco?
If Nicco is endgame I’m going to be furious. He’s a 400 year old vamp obsessed with a 16 year old. When a 30 year old dude gave her eyes at the bar, Adele was like “gross” but 400 years? Yes please!
Will I read book 5? Yes. Will I be happy? Probably not.
Isaac fucked up in book 3 (in a very ACOTAR, but out of nowhere way) but more than made up for it by going to the underworld, getting a scolding/attitude adjustment by Susannah, giving Nicco blood and taking Mac’s parasite soul and Adele still goes home with Nicco?
Honestly, Adele is the worst. She’s an immature 16 year old who thinks she can mediate the end of a centuries old blood feud just by finding Leon.
I think my favorite parts of this book are when Adele promises Nicco that nothing in his past could change how she feels about him and when he comes clean about killing Adeline, she’s like “I gotta go”; and when she spends 10 minutes convincing Nicco that he’s “a lamb” and she knows he’ll never hurt her so he’ll drink from her and the second his teeth come near her neck she’s like “Nicco, no!”
And why does the whole Coven act like Adele can do no wrong when she doesn’t trust any of them to help her and acts like they’re useless to her? She’s a bad friend.
She decides to run off in the middle of getting her dad home to give him a magical handjob in the bell tower while ignoring all of her coven’s emergency phone calls.
Adele was so reckless after Callis kidnapped Mac but now that he’s possessed she just leaves him at Dee’s and goes home to have sexy time with Nicco?
If Nicco is endgame I’m going to be furious. He’s a 400 year old vamp obsessed with a 16 year old. When a 30 year old dude gave her eyes at the bar, Adele was like “gross” but 400 years? Yes please!
Will I read book 5? Yes. Will I be happy? Probably not.