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No words

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 30, 2023

This book took me so long to read. I kept forcing myself to put it down. Read another book in between chapters. I wasn’t ready to finish it knowing there was no release date for 9.

I read this entire book in denial. The anticipation was ridiculous to say the least. I have never in my life cried so hard from a book. I had to sit up in bed to not drown in my tears I was sobbing so hard… his chapter. IYKYK.

I’m afraid this series has corrupted me so thoroughly that I will never find another that I love as deeply. Bravo twisted sisters. Bravo.

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Shianne C.

Conflicted

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 21, 2022

I really enjoyed most of this book, but like everyone else, I don’t understand why there were several chapters that really didn’t add to the story line. Milton? Why.

I was very hopeful to finally have this story come to an end and finally have the happy ending. Darius is back; Darcy and Orion are free of the curse, BUT - Caleb and Seth are still a mess, why haven’t they become mates yet? Same question for Max and Gerry. Lionel should be dead, shadow bitch should be dead. Instead, they added the Satan spawn and a new enemy? Why? Why? Why?

Rather then add these random fillers, they couldn’t have easily tied everything up and let us have what we wanted.

I am curious as to how long we will need to wait for the 9th book now..

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Disappointing (maybe a spoiler??)

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 4, 2023

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Dark, dark, and beyond dark. And completely left feeling... unsatisfied.

I really enjoyed the previous series set in Aurora Academy. And I also became attached to the characters in the Zodiac Academy series as well.

But I really struggled to finish this book, and really only finished it because I am stubborn that way. But 10% into reading this last book in the series, I already wanted to give up. Sorry, but these characters should of had a better last book and ending. Maybe the 2 authors let their own darkness take over?

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Samantha Hicks

Too much extra

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 22, 2022

I wanted to love it but I legit skipped so much stuff and skimmed other chapters everything dragged on and on ! The second star is for the last few chapters which I think could have happened way earlier ! Hopefully the last book is straight to the action and doesn’t have a bunch of extra pointless points of view.

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Risheru

Too many words, plot is insane

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2023

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A lot happens but the book is still 600 pages too long. We get a lot of pov chapters from random characters and villains which I really dislike and often skim through. If we are not meant to sympathize or understand a character then they DO NOT NEED A POV CHAPTER!!!! Unfortunately some prophetic lines and powerful new magic gets dropped in these chapters so the reader can’t just skip them entirely or risk missing some magic that might have consequence later. (Honestly you could but I would recommend skimming instead so you’re not completely blindsided and having to reread - I know that feeling and I want to save you from the confusion.)

The main characters experience a lot of grief and have sex at odd times, often right in the middle of larger plot sequences going down or right at the start of a fight you’ve already begun in a previous chapter of someone else’s pov. If you’re here at book 8 in this series then you’re already used to the writing and how much the pov chapters skip around and end on mini cliffhangers mid-action. I swear it takes 20 chapters, all pov shifts, to get through one action sequence. All the shifting and cliffhangers make it hard to stay with any one vibe at any time, and it makes the sexy chapters less enjoyable because I’m usually just zipping through them to get back to the action/plot that was just left precariously on a ledge.

The prophecies are quite lengthy and on first pass feel vibey, but they never mean anything until an event has already come to pass. Since they aren’t used well by the characters they’re pretty much pointless. By the fourth time the characters are pondering the various pieces of the prophecies you realize how basic and useless they are.

Imo Tory, Darcy, and Seth have the best chapter povs and the most happens in their chapters that actually move the larger arcs of the story along. Gabriel’s pov is also plot heavy and important. Since the introduction of his character into this series, Gabriel has been a literal hand-of-God, swooping in to either save the day or drop some shift in fate at the drop of a sentence. This has not changed except in this book Gabriel suffers too and is no longer just saving everyone at the last second from horror. Everything else is extremely whiny.

That being said, so much growth has happened in this book and a mountain of plot. All the relationships and character arcs feel fleshed out and i believe in the ships that have formed and the fae everyone has become. I’m really sick of seeing our people lose though. Like damn, book 9 better come through with some heavy wins because they sure sacrificed a lot and we’re not even done yet.

If this book were more succinct, even with all the suffering the writers put the characters through and the impossible boss level the villains have reached, it would easily be worth 4 stars. But since you have to sift through wordy bs to get to the good stuff, and some of that wordy bs is sex scenes (a sad thing to admit but they were so misplaced I enjoyed none of them, they were simply in the way of the important ish going on), 2 stars is fair.

Tana

Came we just finish this already…

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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So I finished the book and per usual to most ZA books, the best parts were in the last 20% of the book. Over all the one theme in this book that was very similar to ZA7. It was a LOT of filler. So much so that it’s becoming prominent that they don’t have an editor. This book felt cash grabby to me. Anyone who reads this series knows how popular this book series is. It would make sense from a money POV to stretch it out to one more book.

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The first 25% of the book was very sad. Watching Tory tell everyone Darius was dead. I definitely cried. But after that it got a little boring I won’t lie. This was mainly do to the filler.

After they run from the burrows, and they grieve the deaths it all goes down hill. But what I thought was the most out of place was the WEIRD sex scene between Tory and the 3 virgins. Like WHAT THE H*** was that. I had to walk away from the book for a bit as I was a bit grossed out. It definitely was not needed. It’s almost like the authors felt like we needed a Tory/Darius sex scene before the end of the book and that’s what they came up with. Like no, it was weird.

Which leads me to Darcy. Why did she has so little chapters?!? There were so many opportunities for character development that never happened. Instead her chapters were filled with dungeon sex. Which I’m sorry was a little weird. Like your fearful of your life, but let’s have sex. Personally I think Darcy needed to spend more time alone. She is very dependent on the people around her. First her sister and now Lance. This was the opportunity for her to stand on her own, be alone and learn that that was ok. But instead she spent it with Lance so that we could have couple time. Darcy also had almost no chapters this book. How does a MC have so little chapters?

Seth had to have had more chapters than Darcy. Chapters that were drawn out. I love Seth and I love Caleb. But the whole I hate you stunt at the beginning was unnecessary and was definitely to draw their relationship out. Which is fine if you want to focus on one relationship at a time and needed to bide time. But the relationship that was building (Gerry and Max) they didn’t even focus on. We got SO little, almost nothing. Why? Do the authors just want to exploit the M/M relationship for popularity? I felt like we got more C/S fighting than G/M relationship building.

When they got to the battle to saving everyone at the mansion and couldn’t and Gabriel yelled the prophecy changed I rolled my eyes. Like of course it did. The authors like to change things like that to draw stuff out. Like that whole section was really really long for it to result in nothing. Yes they got some artifacts from Darcy but Tory didn’t even bother with them. I think the only thing they used was the ring. Then we find out Lionel is just going to keep giving himself guardians so he can’t die. Like make it make sense. So over it. That was the scene that made me drop from a 5 star to a 4 star. It was so obvious in that scene that the authors never had any intention of finishing this series in this book.

What I thought was going to be the final nail in the coffin for me making it a 3 star review was Lavinia having her shadow baby. Something we knew was going to happen but I rolled my eyes again because it just meant one more villain to kill. Another very obvious thing added to keep the plot going and never really finish it. How many villains can you keep adding before the readers say whoa whoa this is not believable.

But wait there’s more, we added one more villain to the mix at the end. A star. Are you kidding me? We have spent 8 books now of the twins trying to kill the same two villains and can’t. But we expect them to kill a star. That’s literally laughable. I skimmed the entire ending because it became so unbelievable.

I guarantee they won’t be able to finish this series in the next book. Instead of wrapping up plot lines and making it come together they added more villains and more to do. When we drill it down, all of ZA8 was fixing what went wrong in ZA7. Darius dying and Darcy’s curse. It got us only inches closer to the finish line. They still have to kill Lionel and his guardians and the shadow princess and now we are going to add a star, false Tory and Darcy, the shadow kid and whatever that was with Lionel at the end. Yeah sure, they will definitely get it done in one more book. I’m rolling my eyes. They should have stopped while they were ahead 2 Stars.

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Laura Winter

buckle up, because I have thoughts

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022

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Listen, I love a thick book. The bigger the better. I want plot and action and character development.

This book was none of those things but an indulgence to nothing we care about. Minor characters get page time - their stories mean nothing and do not drive the book forward. Torture happens for the sake of it, not contributing to any sort of advancement or change in the characters. Deus ex machinas sprinkled everywhere. There was absolutely no plot advancement.

From the author’s Facebook group, we were informed this was so large, they were forced to split it into another book and they were scrambling for the deadline. This was meant to be the conclusion and instead we were insulted with an author-indulgent story of so many characters and absolutely no step closer to answers, just another prophecy. And with the rush to get this to the deadline, the editing was rough and I was stolen from many scenes with confusion and spelling errors and more. Not only that, the ending of the book became so rushed, I literally have no idea what happened. I’m not even sure a reread could help me understand.

I never thought I’d be disappointed that a book was too long, but here we have (once again) about 5% of the book actually doing something of value. And honestly, that value was just giving us some action that was so thin on detail, I couldn’t picture anything or get into it.

Mild Spoilers ahead

As I predicted, something happened that tore me out of believability and ruined my experience, despite the “trials” to reach it. I put trials in quotations because we don’t even glimpse it. The description of magic was weak and left me beyond confused to the point I wanted to just skip ahead and get to whatever the result was. That was also a perfect example of an answer coming out of nowhere and leaving me exhausted and annoyed rather than excited. Don’t even get me started on the weird AF three witch scene. That was literally so uncomfortable and I wonder if it was written purely for the purpose of making sure Tory got an orgasm in this book despite her hubby being dead.

Then we have Darcy and Orion’s story in captivity. Don’t get me wrong. I ADORE them. But this was insulting to them as well. The sacrifice that was made for them was… really insulting to the reader. A magic that comes out of nowhere that saves them and yay we should all be happy. It felt cheap. Their “adventures” through the walls of the palace were also weird AF and if this had been any other book, I would have said it was page count padding. But since there was no plot happening in this book, it kinda felt like a “I have an idea for a weird scene, might as well throw it in”. Their quest for the guild stones and all their purposes are thrown into the background and they just “stumble” upon things like “oh, cool. Forgot we were looking for these”.

I’m all for the slow burn and miscommunication to an extent, but the situation between Caleb and Seth has become a “let’s see how long we can drag this out” and the whole sexual tension went from thick to so strung out, it’s like a limp stretch of old bubblegum that won’t snap.

Max is still a soggy flip flop between his love for Geraldine and his determination to claim her publicly while also not because he’s an Heir. This story would have been so much better if he just caved early on rather than at the end so we could actually get a worthy story from those two.

The addition of the ex councilors was like adding three bratty teenagers into a mix of already too many characters. Tiberius’s personality was even more wishy washy chapter to chapter than Max, and the moms were even worse. They’ve gone from aloof, power hungry figureheads to doting, whining, and pouting about everything. I mean, I love that they suddenly realize that they aren’t getting support and they don’t know what to do with themselves, but it became a drag to hear them constantly bickering and getting nothing done.

Listen, I could rant for a very long time about the rest of this mess, but if you are still reading, I’m sorry that I’ve gone on a tangent similar to that of this book. The gist is that this felt like an author indulgent story of meaningless happenings and filler (dare I say it also feels like a money grab for readers who have been hanging on desperately for a conclusion?) which was incredibly insulting to me as a reader. I am disappointed. With the book, but also with myself for falling for it.

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Marta

disappointing read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 24, 2023

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The first 80% of this book are mostly redundant. I feel like they were just wasting my time. It took me forever to finish this book. I tried to return to it many times, it just wasn’t working for me.

JMullins

I feel as abused as most of the characters.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2023

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8 books.

I will start by saying I loved the beginning of the series. The main characters were getting fleshed out well, but somewhere around the halfway mark things start to break down to the point whereas my review for the previous book stated, this has turned into some kind of torture porn or penthouse forum of nightmares.

if relationships were as tumultuous as EVERY SINGLE ONE IN THIS BOOK, the fae population would have died out millennia ago.

I will flat out say I am done with the "romance" side of things and actively skip pages of text just to get to what I hope is actual plot! Unfortunately, even that doesn't work in the 8th book, as you are just as likely to end up in some nobody's perspective simply inserted to quickly move the story forward at a breakneck pace. Ex: the last couple percent of the book i honestly couldn't tell you anything about the battle because the authors chose to phone it in with some classic Deus Ex Machina magic that simply wins the day... but still loses because while this was supposed to conclude the story, IT DOES NOT END!!!

I struggled to even want to buy this book, but figured I was so solidly invested, I had to finish the series because this was the last book. I feel fleeced.

I am too discouraged to keep bringing up issues I have with this book, so I will just leave it at this.

in honor of Washer:
I am done with getting the shaft, even if it is just a teeny weeny one. I have been thrust against a wall over and over again, and I can't take even an inch more.

Oh, and if you are going to make torturous pornographic text, at least make it novel so its at least slightly more readable than skippable.

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Rhiannon M Crowsey

*jumps off bandwagon*

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022

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Twisters, the Stars have spoken about your next 1244 pages - this was their Greed and you will feel Malice.

“It’s not filler”. Yes it is. Don’t parrot the party line. What it a book good? Yes, sort of. A lot of my upset comes from the fact that this was supposed to be the final book. The problem is we gained more problems than we solved. And that’s not a spoiler because that applies all around. For having read 1244 pages, I absolutely expected resolution on more than we received. I did not understand the need to create problems were they shouldn’t have existed. I didn’t understand the need to give page time to certain situations. I could say so much.. But ultimately that would be spoilers. And I don’t like doing that. Just know that I take issue with almost every single thing with this book.

What I will say is that NONE of the characters seem like themselves. My entire “keep reading” line for people was Geraldine. And wow. Way to make her a caricature of herself. 🙄 She got done so dirty I can’t even right now.

What I can say is.. The Sisters (authors) have been known to use deleted scenes for anthologies or benefit books. So much of this book could have been out-takes used to benefit anything else. I was definitely salty when we found out that this wouldn’t be the final book. Having survived reading this.. I am hesitant to bother with number nine. I don’t even care anymore.

But that’s OK because we have literally no idea when the ninth book is coming out. At a bare minimum they didn’t leave us on a righteous cliff. To be honest any cliff at this point wouldn’t have mattered. I feel betrayed and confused. Why 1244 pages of basically nothing. Just. Why.

Things to expect after completing this journey - confusion. anger. more problems/plot holes to be filled. problems that were resolved to do a 180. questions that were never asked, brought up. denial. more anger and confusion. APATHY. The sudden realization that this was, in fact, a money grab an attempt to promote a series that they have under nourished. *cough Darkmore Penitentiary *cough

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NSF

it just goes downhill

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2023

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This series had the makings of a great fantasy story. Up until book 5-6ish maybe? Where it entirely devolved in to useless fluff. I skimmed my way through book 8, the most bloated book of them all. I even skipped some of the 🔥🔥🔥 scenes. I NEVER skip those. I just couldn’t with these last few books. I wanted to scream “get ON WITH IT ALREADY.” The book veers in so many useless and stupid directions that I took to calling them side quests. Like in a video game where you want to waste time still playing so you veer from the OG storyline by playing every single fruitless and stupid side quest you can think of? That’s what happened here. And with no known release date for the final book, I’m unlikely to finish the series.

It’s a bit sad because it started off well enough. The whole bully theme was well done and while very angsty, still worked. Until the story literally spirals out of control and drones on for 5 more books than is necessary. NINE books?! Seriously?! And not in a good “I’m so happy I get to still read this amazing story” way. More like a “who the heck is Milton again and why does he get a POV when we haven’t seen him for three books?” kind of way.

The first couple books were fine. Read on if you just want to know where the story goes. But don’t say I didn’t warn you about those stupid useless side quests that bring nothing to the main story line. And I mean literally nothing.

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I Give Up....Perplexed Why This Isn't the End

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2022

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Words cannot describe how disappointed I am at this series. 1300 pages of snorefest with another (seriously?) prophecy at the end. I am just done, fed up and confused as to why, at Christmas time, I am not being given a neatly plot driven, explosion of character development, early present that i can obsess over?

I am sick of being dragged along because these two just can't properly edit their work. Seriously, I beg you guys, please please please get a professional editor. You have a good idea and you are ruining it because you can't take constructive criticism. The first line of the book is a run on sentence! There is just so much in the first hundred pages that is said twice, even thrice that it just gets old very quickly.

I did not like Darius coming back whatsoever. That was a deal breaker for me. His death was Tori's only bit of character development that mattered. It drove her in the beginning of this book and that is good! To bring him back is to ruin everything that was built for your main character.

And again, there are too many POVs. Let me yell it from the rooftops, too many! This is an editing problem. Characters which have no bearing on plot progession this late in the game should not have POVs. Period.

Great fantasy novels are mapped out, character arcs planned and plot points prepared. But it feels like these two just write without impunity. They have no idea where this is going. They created so many prophecies and characters that they are having trouble linking and cleaning it all up to a satisfying end.

A solid two again but I am not staying for the last because this is an absolute trainwreck.

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