About 80 pages in, I remembered why this has been sitting in my TBR pile for almost two years.... Too chaotic to follow, too many unnecessary scenes and sentences and descriptions, and not enough clarity in the writing to easily follow along unless I started writing down what happens every chapter. Reading this book felt like work, which was not enjoyable at all. I decided to DNF around 300 pages in, and I won't be picking up the last in the trilogy.

***Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for providing me with a digital copy of this book to review.***

I own this and intend to read it in the future I'm just clearing this off my board to reduce stress. I will update when I read/review.

Thank you to Orbit and Netgalley for an e-ARC of The Midnight Kingdom. Here are my thoughts!

This review may have minor spoilers from the first novel in the series.

The four nobles are scattered and on their own after the ginormous battle. Taesia and Nikolas are sent to the realm of night. Risha is in the realm of death trying to figure out how to get home. Angelica is still in Vaega trying to keep the pieces together.

I read parts of this on my kobo and listened to some parts on Spotify. I’m not going to lie; I was a little disappointed with this one, but I’ll start with the things I liked. I love the four main characters in this series. They are each so unique and I feel like readers will be drawn to at least one of them. The world and realms that they inhabit are cool and thoroughly detailed. I like that the author created such different realms that were so easy to picture in my mind. One thing I love about fantasy stories is a fully realized world and magic system and this series checks those boxes.

Now I feel like the reasons I didn’t connect with this book might be “me” problems. I couldn’t keep track of the plot when I was listening on audiobook. I kept mixing up the newly introduced characters and often needed to really focus and refresh to remember what happened. Part of this comes down to the characters being separated, so we don’t hear their storylines for a little while. And when listening to an audiobook that time feels even longer. When I did the reading chunks on my kobo, I felt like I had a much better grasp on the plot, which did move a little slowly.

There was a lot going on this month as I was reading so perhaps my listening was distracted. I don’t want this review to deter you from checking out this series. It is a cool concept with great main characters, and I wouldn’t be opposed to going back to this book to read it again to see if I have a different experience. I think this one is a case of right book, wrong time.

Review to come (star rating is sitting at a 3.5 but I might be changing it to a four star the more I think about it)

An outstanding sequel to the City of Dusk. I absolutely love this darker fantasy. The characters are so intriguing! Loved it so much!

I loved this book so, so much! It took me a couple of chapters to get back into the story and reconnect to the characters but once I did, I couldn't put the book down

loved this sequel, It is multiple POVs and there isn’t one I hate. Although, Taesia and surprisingly Angelica are my favourite. I like the growth of the characters and where the plot is going. It moved along the story while having great character development

I loved this sequel, It is multiple POVs and there isn’t one I hate. Although, Taesia and surprisingly Angelica are my favourite. I like the growth of the characters and where the plot is going. It moved along the story while having great character development.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publishers for this review copy. Sadly, I didn’t feel the same connection to these characters that I did when I read the first book. I was often confused about whose perspective I was reading and which family they were a part of or which god they were affiliated with. I’m not sure if reading physically would help, but I just was confused and easily distracted and didn’t love this one.

I loved book 1 and this book was amazing as well. So much in here to keep you reading and I could not put it down.

I really wanted to like this book and there are definitely parts of it that I enjoyed but overall the plot was not well conceived and I desired so much more from it.

DNF (for now). Will hopefully come back and try again at another time. I really wanted to enjoy this but I struggled to get into it.

Thanks to the pals at Orbit for an eARC of this title!

Tara Sim captured me with book one of this series and I was not disappointed by book two. While there were points that felt a little draggy, it was not such a drag that I was disappointed. Very excited for the next installment!

Firstly, I would like to thank NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I love the world building and everything that happens in this book, even though it is ALOT! At some points it felt long but not knowing what would happen next is what kept me turning the pages. It is a lot of content in 1 book but it is well worth the read! Solid 3 stars!

it was okay but i definitely prefer the first book to this. i thought everything was kinda crammed into this book so i’m wondering how the third book is going to be

thank you netgalley for the e-arc!

I will not be giving a review for this because of chose to not finish the first book in this series. The star rating is not how I would rate the book, it is just because it is mandatory on reviews.

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That's my reaction to this book and the events that transpired.  It's a good thing I read it on Kindle because I'm less likely to throw that than I am a physical book.  I love this series and these characters.  If you need a fantasy series to read so you too can make incoherent noises like me, this is it.
How many days until book 3?  I can't count that high.

Downloaded this book not realizing it was the second in a series, and still loved the premise! Was unable to finish because obviously, but the writing was compelling, and I will definitely read the first!

I ended up borrowing the audiobook and listened to this one. I listened to all 25+ hours of it. And im pretty sure I understood about 60% of what happened…

I’m trying to wonder if this is one of those slow middle books in a trilogy and it’s building to the epic final book or if it’s because of the audio. Maybe both? Idk this middle one was not as good.

I’ll still read book three.

Thank you so much to the publisher and Netgalley for the e-ARC! I will be reviewing and/or showcasing this book on my social media accounts when I can. Thanks again very much appreciated and looking forward to this book!