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Trial of Three (Power of Five, #3)

Alex Lidell

Start date: September 26, 2018

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May 27, 2019 Katyana rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, kindle-unlimited, reverse-harem

***3.5***

I like it, but ...

Well, there are a lot of buts. Firstly, we're three books in, and I feel like very very little has happened. Who is Lera? Why can't she remember her childhood, or anything prior to being bought by Zake at ... what was it we were told? Twelve years old? Where did she come from?

Secondly, there are some story elements that feel very contrived to me. For example, if you're going to take this uber badass team and tell them that they are puny new first trials - and expect th ***3.5***

I like it, but ...

Well, there are a lot of buts. Firstly, we're three books in, and I feel like very very little has happened. Who is Lera? Why can't she remember her childhood, or anything prior to being bought by Zake at ... what was it we were told? Twelve years old? Where did she come from?

Secondly, there are some story elements that feel very contrived to me. For example, if you're going to take this uber badass team and tell them that they are puny new first trials - and expect them to accept being treated like that by the Council and by the other quints - then you can't ALSO force them to teach classes. That's ridiculous, and so obviously contrived to cause drama with Tye and Lera that it makes me like the story less. It doesn't make any sense, nor is it believable that the quints happy to order them around and make them fetch dishes would then also accept them as teachers. Come on now.

Additionally, I hated the first connection between River and Lera. There's no other way for me to say it: I hated it.

I guess I just feel like ... these books are on the short side, and rather than getting story or character development, we are getting contrived side-bullshit. Or weird about-faces, where after dealing with the Elders that are clearly self-serving assholes only interested in their own power, now we're supposed to accept them as allies who know what they are doing. No. They don't know shit. I'm sorry, but just no. They, at the end of book 2, were like oh, well, had you told us she was a weaver we could have helped. I'm sorry assholes, but YOU are the one that put the marks on them that indicated she was a weaver. The quint didn't know, because there's never been one - it is only theoretical. If anyone should have recognized the mark, don't you think it should have been, oh I don't know, maybe the Council of Fucking Elders?? But instead they act like the quint has kept this from them, when they are the only people who could have conceivably known what the fuck was going on. Now they're pretending like they know how to help train her, but again, they haven't got the first goddamn clue. How Lera actually connects to the magic - it is so far the opposite of how the Elders have been pushing them that it makes the Council look like damn useless morons.

Furthermore, there's a good case to be made that the Council is responsible for (view spoiler) Why haven't they been overthrown? They fucking suck at their job, and are utterly useless ... while being remarkably full of themselves. And despite continually praising themselves as the most powerful quint in Lunos, we've never seen them actually FIGHT. Fucking useless.

I'll finish it, since there is one book left, but ... I'm a lot less enthusiastic. I like it less and less each moment I think about it, honestly. ...more

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Jan 09, 2019 MrsJoseph *grouchy* rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, kindle-unlimited, romance-fantasy, romance-reverse-harem, 2019, 2019-reading-challenges

3.5 stars rounded down to 3 stars
Continuing with this series.

So far, I've enjoyed this series. My biggest issue in this book is the relationship between the quint. None of them seem to do anything together as a group - including Lera, lol. Everything is in twos, mostly - occasionally threes but not fives (except when traveling and in convo). This includes trainings.

Also, that first sex scene (view spoiler) was sooooo fucking PAINFUL to read. O_O Although (view spoiler ...more

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