The Deck of Omens
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This hotly anticipated sequel to The Devouring Gray is perfect for fans of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Cycle and Stranger Things -- now available in paperback! Though the Beast is seemingly subdued for now, a new threat lurks in Four Paths: a corruption seeping from the Gray into the forest. And with the other Founders preoccupied by their tangled alliances and fraying relationships, only May Hawthorne seems to realize the danger. But saving the town she loves means seeking aid from the person her family despises most -- her father, Ezra Bishop. May's father isn't the only newcomer in town -- Isaac Sullivan's older brother has also returned, seeking forgiveness for the role he played in Isaac's troubled past. But Isaac isn't ready to let go of his family's history, especially when that history might hold the key that he and Violet Saunders need to destroy the Gray and the monster within it. Harper Carlisle isn't ready to forgive, either. Two devastating betrayals have left her isolated from her family and uncertain who to trust. As the corruption becomes impossible to ignore, Harper must learn to control her newfound powers in order to protect Four Paths. But the only people who can help her do that are the ones who have hurt her the most. With the veil between the Gray and the town growing ever thinner, the Founder descendants must put their grievances with one another aside to stop the corruption and kill the Beast once and for all. But the monster they truly need to slay may never have been the Beast...
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2 primary booksThe Devouring Gray
The Devouring Gray is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Christine Lynn Herman and C.L. Herman.
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This series was a steaming pile of rubbish.
I was so excited to read these books and I've been let down.. HUGELY.
The characters? Bland. The story line? Messy. The writing? Childish.
Just.. yeah... never reading these again. I don't want to see these books ever again.
ah.........
i think this sums up my feelings about this book. i don't know, generally this book is fine, it's alright, but i'm also severely disappointed?
the premise for this series is extremely cool and the characters had a lot of potential, i liked them a lot.
but somehow this sequel just missed the mark completely for me. i wasn't a fan of the romances, i wasn't happy with some of the big “reveals” of the town's past and i didn't really vibe with the main antagonist at all.
although i was pleasantly surprised that harper broke up with justin at the end and for the exact reasons why i didn't like their romance. so, good for her in that aspect
i also think that this book could have been way shorter. like, theoretically its length could have been a great way to build some tension and suspense but that is not where this book went at all in my opinion. there were just too many scenes that were just a short list of events that happen, like “and then the charas do that and then they do that and now we are here”, that just broke any atmospheric moments for me. and then there are the last..... idk 40 minutes of the audiobook that could have been shortened so much. this is just personal taste and i know some people really prefer it when authors do this, but i didn't like how every character needed to get their last scene in to resolve everything, a quick "where are they now" if you will. i personally think that the scene with the funeral of isaac and gabriel's mom would have been absolutely fine as the last scene entirely, the epilogue wasn't interesting at all to me, it just destroyed the nice flow that the scene before it had created which is a shame.
all in all this book just gets an “okay” from me
