Sins of a King

The story starts off well! Overall I liked it and I thought it was interesting. The spice between Flynn and Barrett is amazing. However I have several gripes with this book. The story starts off fast and never slows down to it's detriment. The emotional moments never hit home for me because they feel rushed. The story never lingers. It also pivots to different plot points so quickly that I feel like it should have been several books. The characters reactions to the plot points also varies just as wildly. Something I would have liked to see would have been Flynn's speech to be tweaked to contain more Scottish slang or mannerisms. The book was good enough I will check out the sequels but I'm going to be apprehensive about what I expect.

I was hooked at the start by the premise, and as Slate's writing style was better than average, I remained engaged in the story until a major plot-twist occurred. After that, the whole tale shifted and took on the tone of a movie script. While the plot was still interesting, the characters became cardboard cutouts, talking and acting like stereotypical goons. This might have been okay if the protagonist had remained developing as an open-book character, where we got more realistic internal dialogue to explain or support the new behaviors and attitudes. But she, too, became a superficial action-figure, though less and less heroic. Instead, readers were left with a narcissistic, sociopathic manipulator for their protagonist. It isn't even necessarily the lack of moral compasses for the main characters that lets the story down. Rather, it's the failure to evoke convincing motivations and dialogue for the hurried personality changes that lead up to a largely unlikable, lead character.

My favourite series ever!! I keep re-reading. It is impossible to put any of the books on this series down... Its loaded with so many twists you don’t see coming. Barrent is by far one of my favorite female leads with her no nonsense take action personality. This series will not disappoint. Not enough stars for this series