[Book Review] Lord of Eternal Night

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╰┈─➤ ❝ 𝕋.𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 ❞

              ➤    ʙ.𝚘𝚘𝚔 ɪ.𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

              ➤    ʀ.𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠

              ➤    ᴇ.𝚗𝚍 ɴ.𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜

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⤷ 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 ⤾

── ⤷ Lord of Eternal Night

⤷ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 ⤾

── ⤷ Ben Alderson

⤷ 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 ⤾

── ⤷ N/A

⤷ 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 ⤾

── ⤷ Independently Published

⤷ 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 ⤾

── ⤷ 2021

⤷ 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 ⤾

── ⤷ Romance, Fantasy, LGBTQ+

⤷ 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 ⤾

── ⤷ 257

⤷ 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬 ⤾

── ⤷ Perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Shade of Vampire – but with added spice!

Jak’s life has only one meaning; break the curse or die trying.

Marius’s life has no meaning; not since he was cursed into the twisted, blood thirsty creature of night.

For years the witches have waited for their salvation, a way to return the magic that was sacrificed when the curse was first cast. Jak, a boy born with power that the witches have not seen in a century, is their prophesied saviour. The one who is to kill the creature, break the curse and restore magic to his coven.

Sent to the creature’s castle as the final Claim, Jak must get close enough to land the final blow. It is what he has trained all his life to accomplish.

Not all is as it seems when Jak uncovers secrets and half-truths. The creature is not the haunting beast he had been brought up to hate. Emotions war as new feelings are uncovered. For what is more dangerous than hate? Lust.

⤷ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 ⤾

── ⤷ Achillean / Mspec

⤷ 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⤾

── ⤷ 3.56* (Goodreads)

── ⤷ 3.42* (Storygraph)

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⤷ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 ⤾

── ⤷ 9/12/2024 - 9/15/2024

⤷ 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⤾

── ⤷ 1*

⤷ 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 ⤾

── ⤷ Ebook

⤷ 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ⤾

── ⤷ Want to read about a man with too much power be trapped within a castle with his prophesized undoing by magic that his own family cursed the castle dwelling man with? Want bad grammar and sentences that hardly make semse, ruining the impact of the book? Want what is possibly the worst beauty and the beast retelling I have ever read? Look no further!

⤷ 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ⤾

── ⤷ cw for vague talk about adult scenes, this is an adult book but I dont go in depth

── ⤷ I don't think I can express just how disappointed I was in this book.

I am usually one to love any and all retellings, queer ones especially, as I know how they end most of the time and that gives me great comfort, however this time I could not keep the frown off of my face as I read. This was filled with poor writing and poor characters, this had the chance to be good and I suppose that is what frustrates me the most about this, but from the very first line I could tell that this was going to be a poor read.

── ⤷ Now, I am usually all for shitty books, sometimes some mind numbing vampire porn or a series that was started in the 2000s that have clearly not stood the test of time, or, honestly, some mafia macho man bs really hits the spot. So at first I thought that is what this is going to be. Which is fine and all, not the first retelling I've read that makes my brain just fill with whitenoise. And then I got just the smallest bit past the first chapter.

── ⤷ It was very obvious from the get go that the main character, Jak, was supposed to be quite intelligent but maybe a tad bit sheltered due to his upbringing. Instead it came across as though everyone should be incredibly surprised that he made it this far in life. He was written like the author was trying too hard to make him come across as smart, which instead had the opposite effect.

── ⤷ The base idea of the story was good - though I disagree that it should be marketed as a retelling and instead it has more similarities with a work that would be inspired by - but I'm afraid that was all that was good.

── ⤷ The sex scenes were mid, using the same language far too much and somehow making vampire sex boring and skippable, and there was inconsistency after inconsistency in both plot points and in characters. I felt little to no connection between the characters and their romance felt rushed. All of the 'twists' and reveals were easily seen from miles away and probably should have taken more build up. Grammatical errors and sentences that simply didn't make sense butchered any impact that some scenes attempted to have. If this were maybe one or two hundred pages more and with a better author I probably would have rated this much higher.

── ⤷ Originally I was going to consider continuing with the series, as my love for retellings holds out above my own taste often times, but if this is the out come of the other books in the series I don't see my self reading any other book from this author. I found this author originally from booktok and I think that some people should just stay readers.

⤷ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐟 ⤾

── ⤷ The only positive thing I can think of is the fact that the witch main character keeps his power at the end.

⤷ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐟 ⤾

── ⤷ World building and characters are important to you.

⤷ 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 ⤾

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⤷ 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 ⤾

── ⤷ The fact that it took me several days to finish a book that's less than 300 pages should say a lot LMAO. Anyways, bad book :open_mouth: ‍ :dash: if anyone wants to rec me anything, go ahead. Or wants recs from me. I might make a post about some of my 5* reads to stop all the negativity that's already on my profile lol.

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