The traces of supernatural powers have always been crossing the world of human beings. Many people know about the existence of healers, mind readers, oneiromancers and wizards. But for centuries their lives have been kept secret and no one has ever heard about Dever, a kingdom of mysteries and magic.Neither has Eileen Clark, whose life has never been different from the one other teenagers have.… teenagers have.
Everything changes the day Eileen receives an invitation to join the ranks of Dever’s students.
Nothing will ever be the same again…
New life, new friends, new enemies…
And love so powerful that no magic will be able to destroy…
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Thank god it is finally over! I had to literally force myself to read this ”book” til the end. What a struggle this catastrophe of a story was. How did it even manage to get so many good reviews?! Have the standards of books gotten down in the last few years or something? This was an embarrassment to every author out there. How could this even be published!?
I don’t even know where to start. There were so so sooo many things wrong with this so called book. The main problem I think is how unrealistic everything is. And I’m not talking about bending elements (avatar ripoff) or the magic. I’m talking about how disgustingly powerful and perfect Eileen is written as. Not only her but also every character written to be on the “good side”, while the bad guys loose so easily without any struggle. I don’t know if Diana Nixon knows this, but to be able to relate to the characters and actually like them they need to have flaws. Why? Because humans have flaws and seeing someone being unrealistically perfect is just annoying because that just points out that the reader is not. If the character is flawed like everyone else you can relate and feel a connection to the character, because you are not alone in your mistakes. This is basically writing101. What an amateur “author” this is.
It annoyed me so much how Eileen just got more and more powerful outshining (even thunder stealing) everyone else. There were zero struggle to learn and gain the power. It was basically poof and she was powerful. The worst part however is how full of herself she got. She became overconfident, insulting and bragged about her powers. And yet every character praised and awed her? It was just straight up weird how she became the center of everyone and everything in this entire book was only about her. They did all the work for her while she sat in her, Christians or Evans room. If she was written as powerful then at least the author could have made her do something in the book instead of resting, crying and fainting all the time (I swear, all the characters was going to take a nap or rest once every chapter. And yet they were always tired or not able to sleep).
Half of the stuff in this book did not even make sense. They keep saying that it was dangerous for Eileen to use her power, but they never explained why. They barely explain their plans and the characters is not described or introduced into the story. They are suddenly just there. Yet the author thought it was a good idea to go into detail about the festival and the election and every other dull detail I don’t care about. She needs to get her priorities straight. It’s as simple as this: the things that are important to the story you explain more, otherwise don’t. The worst part about her writing though Is the name dropping. There is too much and every name mentioned and ever characters that crossed paths became a maze. And why was there always a “dear” or “beloved” before the titles and names? Her vocabulary does not seem to reach very far. Everywhere in the story I could find beloved, dear, suspiciously and mysteriously. Learn other words!
Not only is Nixon bad at writing, as an author she is extremely lazy. She put absolutely no effort behind the romance. There was an insta connection between Eileen and Christian and suddenly they knew everything about each other and started acting like they had known each other for forever. There was no chemistry or spark that I could feel between them and there was no way I could invest myself in their relationship. Nixon did not allow me to, simply by not developing a relationship in any way. There were no getting-to-know-each-other stage and the characters couldn’t even have a normal conversation. It was only praising, metaphors and over the top cringyness and cheesiness. Even a kiss between them could not be described as a kiss. No, It was fire and angels and rainbows with unicorns. So effing cheesy and just bad.
I promise you, I could go on and on about everything wrong with this story for hours (like how sexist it was with the girls talking clothes and makeup and going shopping, doing nothing proactive. While the guys went out to fight and solve every problem. Or how little Eileen reacted when suddenly her life got turned upside down. What about the fact that the writing is like a preteens and so are the personalities of the characters.), but I have already suffered through the book so I’m not going to give any more attention to the author or the book. They simply do not deserve my attention. Simply put, the only good thing about it was that it was for free