House of Earth and Blood

4 stars but only in the sense that its a 3.9 for me. Not sure if I'm big on urban fantasy. Its weird thinking about vampires using cell phones or the potential for the Autumn King to order pizza delivery...

I think that this book could have been better in terms of the depth of relationships in it. ACOTAR was really good about creating relationships between all the characters and so when things happened or decisions were made, you as the reader could understand why. I feel like there was a lot of examples of events happening in this book where I was like “okay, I guess we are doing this now.”

Normally that really really irks me, however, I fully acknowledge that this may have been done intentionally. I understand that all of the SJM books fall into 1 universe where they interact with one another, so perhaps there will be other opportunities for me to understand why certain decisions were made by these characters in a semi-‘dramatic irony' sort of way. I would reread this again, but it is not taking up my brain space and consuming me whole like ACOTAR did.

Also, I'm sorry, but Hunt Athalar is literally an annoying lax bro who does the bare minimum. Bryce did everything for him and I feel like he didn't even scratch the surface. Real pro- Ruhn though in a separate sense and I am really excited to see how he develops in the next book.