The writing is getting better. ( )

I still find that I don't love any of her characters, I know Autumn had depression and I shouldn't judge her for that, but even afterwards I found her annoying. I enjoyed the first book more, but I'll probably still give the third one a chance. ( )

What a mess! *sighs* I am wretchedly frustrated right now, peeps, considering how much I loved The Dark Heroine. It took me weeks to get through Autumn Rose, and I had to push myself all the way through.

First of all, Autumn Rose doesn't mention Kaspar and Violet until its last 20%. Everything in this book happens parallel to the time stamp of The Dark Heroine but in a different dimension and involving a completely different set of characters.

The main heroine, fifteen-year old Autumn, is a sage, a magic user and a noble woman, a Sagean Duchess of England, who goes to a normal school and struggles with her rising power as a seer and her depression due to the loss of her grandmother.

No one in her school knows who she really is until Prince Fallon enrolls in the same school to keep and eye on her, and they start falling in love.

Straight away I struggled to like Autumn. She did not feel like a well developed character, she was disjointed, jumpy, scattered, neurotic. It seemed that I was supposed to admire her but she confused the hell out of me.

Her relationship with Fallon was even worse. They were meant to feel for each other but I wasn't seeing it. No spark, zilch, nada.

At last there was the whole threat of Extermino suspiciously similar to Harry Potter's Death Eaters and a pretty messy concept of Heroines saving the world. From what? Extermino with their conflicting goals? People like Violet's father? I wasn't seeing the picture.

I perked up a little when Kaspar and Violet showed up, but the joy didn't last. They were described through Autumn's eyes, her perception, and looked pathetic. She was very judgemental, our girl.

So, perhaps, Abigail Gibbs rushed this book through publication, perhaps she felt like she needed a back story and lacked enthusiasm to write it, but whatever the reason, Autumn Rose failed to keep me as enthralled as the previous book. I reserve my judgement until book three, hoping it will rekindle my enthusiasm for the series. ( )

A good book, dealing with very different issues to DWAV. I, for one, enjoyed that it was set in the first dimension, although it took me a little while to work it out!
Character development, while strong, felt a little choppy - but that may have just been because I was skimming it in order to finish it! I love Autumn's characterisation, although the depression seemed to have been glossed over pretty fast. I didn't feel we got to know Autumn's human friends enough to feel a great deal of sympathy for them, either.
One of the great geniuses of the book was seeing Kaspar and Violet for from another point of view. The book definitely felt a lot more mature than DWAV.

All in all, I enjoyed it, and look forward to rereading and hopefully upping my rating to 5 stars! ( )

I did not like this book at all. I did like the characters, but the story was convoluted and sparse. Could be because I didn't read the first one. I didn't realize it was a series when I requested it. Very strange book, with very little explanation as to what was happening. ( )