Kaydence Snow

The book has an intriguing introduction and the flow of the writing is really good throughout all I've read.
The author tried to portray the MC as this incredibly driven, highly gifted person with a keen interest in all the sciences but as soon as she enters the academy she instead just is an oblivious and hormone-driven mess with no self-control and the IQ of a housefly.
This case of stupidity and obliviousness is not limited to the MC though. It affects all the protagonists. It's just particularly annoying and intrusive with the MC because of the first-person perspective.

The story is as subtle as a bull in a china shop in general. Everything is painfully blunt and obvious. The time it takes for the MC to make connections and draw conclusions is ridiculously long and makes me think she should go into a school for mentally challenged people instead of the most prestigious academy in the US and I am not saying this to be hurtful. Really, I am not. This is truly how low her mental capabilities appear even when making concessions for the circumstances.

The author has the frustrating habit of making a good case for the MC to act upon but then needs her to double back because that was never where she actually wanted the plot to go but she can't find a good reason that supersedes the initial cause for the MC's actions.
The author basically repeatedly manoeuvres herself into dead ends and then has to bullshit herself out afterwards to get back on track. The way she does it is usually "but feelings and love and stuff so just forget about all that okeeey". I can't even put into words how absurd these conflict resolutions are. She does it to get a bit of extra drama out of these detours but imo the general absurdity and stupidity outweighs the gained tension.

I dropped at around 80-90% somewhere.

So, the verdict basically is very good and flowing writing and emotional investment that had the potential to really affect me but the abysmal plot construction and planning drives it all into the wall. I think this author could be hugely successful if someone else planned out the entire plot for her in reasonable detail and she just applied her very enjoyable writing to follow the guiding thread.

I have a very hard time comprehending how this book managed to stay on a 4.3 star average with almost 6k ratings.… (meer)

Oh my God how much sex is this girl need LOL

But in all seriousness I actually like the series it's cute. And I connected to some of the characters so that was good.

Yes I would definitely recommend this series to friends.

I have to say though I am kind of sort of disappointed that there wasn't any clarification between Bond mates as opposed to just regular bonds. I think they should have like elaborated on that a little bit more. Like being something special about bonds. Does that make sense? Anyway it's a good series.… (meer)