The Choice

I kinda lost steam with this trilogy, maybe bc I had to interject some forced SJM-reading time in the middle. I feel like this trilogy's worldbuilding is so straightforward compared to SJM's wild-ass shit, and the characters are generally well-created (Marco does still just seem like a cartoon gay stereotype like...at least he's fun and got his magical HEA too??? I'll take it)whatever it was fine, like somehow I think it's better quality than SJM books but has less of the secret unhinged spice that makes me crave SJM?:

I cannot believe I chose and kept choosing this book. Keegan is wonderful to everyone except Breen and she just accepts it. And there is no romance between them. Just a mild attraction and sex. World building is lacking. Mfc falls flat. The plot is lost in retelling each of the 7 interesting scenes to every character in the valley. And it's slightly homophobic in that Keegan and the god got on page sex but Marco didn't. The god's wasn't even entirely consensual.