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The Keep by Veronica Wolff
5.0
I just love this series. I really do. It’s not too often I come across a set of books that end up being like crack. But The Watchers is one of those few series for me and I legit can’t get enough of it. Mainly because it’s pretty brutal and Drew’s kind of a BAMF and doesn’t take any crap.
One of two things I didn’t like about THE KEEP is that the plot is largely unresolved at the end. You find out one little tidbit about what’s happening but bag’s open, cats are everywhere and they’re pissed the eff off. Not a fan of ending books that way. Especially since I know it’s taken me forever to read these books and this one’s three years old. And I know, based on the last time I looked on Goodreads, there was only #4.5 in the series about Ronan but no #5. So minor shit fit until I looked again and saw that Wolff’s publishing book 5 herself and won’t leave us all hanging. THANK YOU.
It does make me sad, though, that it looks like NAL didn’t pick up book five but I love living in a world where authors have recourse of this now. No longer do we have to deal with dead, unresolved series. Hello, self-publishing! Yes, please. For book five, though, I mean it could be cut out newspaper letters on multi-colored construction paper. I don’t care. JUST GIVE ME THE WORDS. Please.
Two of two things I didn’t like about THE KEEP was the attacks on Drew by the Trainees got a little redundant. By the end it was like oh, this again? Slap, slap, kick, kick, blood, bruise, go away. I mean I was even picking up aggravation in Drew about this so it seems like the repetition might have been intentional anyway.
Other than that, loved it. Loved Drew just growing into herself as a bad ass human being but I like how Wolff ground it all out in HOW she’s getting to that place in her life. Dead friends, no family, constant threat of death. And it’s wearing on Drew. That much is obvious, and it might even be starting to break her a little bit.
Ronan is Ronan and I like how he’s still puttering around and being all mysterious. I’m not too big of a Carden fan because he hasn’t been all that much use in the story except to be a love interest and get Drew stronger but he disappears for a good portion of THE KEEP. And when he comes back BOOM. He’s back in style. He drops a bomb and then the story ends. Literally. At the back cover. See above re: unresolved story. Grrr.
And I liked where Alcantara’s character went here. It was wholly unexpected and it paints him in an entirely new light. Plus it gives his motives all new meaning as well. Seriously, this book will leave you with more questions than answers but can it be April already so I can gobble this book up like my cat Fat Dean snarfs french fries, please? Thanks!
This is not a typical teen/new adult vampire series and god, do I love it so. There is so much blood and death and guts and life threatening situations with dashes of man chests and eye candy and BAMF lady fights that it’s kind of my perfect series. There needs to be more of this. Like it seriously harkens me back to my teenage years when vampires were VAMPIRES and fangs and all of that. Too much sparkle in the world now. It makes me sad.
Bloody vamps and the Watchers who hate them FTW!
4.5
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
One of two things I didn’t like about THE KEEP is that the plot is largely unresolved at the end. You find out one little tidbit about what’s happening but bag’s open, cats are everywhere and they’re pissed the eff off. Not a fan of ending books that way. Especially since I know it’s taken me forever to read these books and this one’s three years old. And I know, based on the last time I looked on Goodreads, there was only #4.5 in the series about Ronan but no #5. So minor shit fit until I looked again and saw that Wolff’s publishing book 5 herself and won’t leave us all hanging. THANK YOU.
It does make me sad, though, that it looks like NAL didn’t pick up book five but I love living in a world where authors have recourse of this now. No longer do we have to deal with dead, unresolved series. Hello, self-publishing! Yes, please. For book five, though, I mean it could be cut out newspaper letters on multi-colored construction paper. I don’t care. JUST GIVE ME THE WORDS. Please.
Two of two things I didn’t like about THE KEEP was the attacks on Drew by the Trainees got a little redundant. By the end it was like oh, this again? Slap, slap, kick, kick, blood, bruise, go away. I mean I was even picking up aggravation in Drew about this so it seems like the repetition might have been intentional anyway.
Other than that, loved it. Loved Drew just growing into herself as a bad ass human being but I like how Wolff ground it all out in HOW she’s getting to that place in her life. Dead friends, no family, constant threat of death. And it’s wearing on Drew. That much is obvious, and it might even be starting to break her a little bit.
Ronan is Ronan and I like how he’s still puttering around and being all mysterious. I’m not too big of a Carden fan because he hasn’t been all that much use in the story except to be a love interest and get Drew stronger but he disappears for a good portion of THE KEEP. And when he comes back BOOM. He’s back in style. He drops a bomb and then the story ends. Literally. At the back cover. See above re: unresolved story. Grrr.
And I liked where Alcantara’s character went here. It was wholly unexpected and it paints him in an entirely new light. Plus it gives his motives all new meaning as well. Seriously, this book will leave you with more questions than answers but can it be April already so I can gobble this book up like my cat Fat Dean snarfs french fries, please? Thanks!
This is not a typical teen/new adult vampire series and god, do I love it so. There is so much blood and death and guts and life threatening situations with dashes of man chests and eye candy and BAMF lady fights that it’s kind of my perfect series. There needs to be more of this. Like it seriously harkens me back to my teenage years when vampires were VAMPIRES and fangs and all of that. Too much sparkle in the world now. It makes me sad.
Bloody vamps and the Watchers who hate them FTW!
4.5
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.