readaroundtherosie:Review: Of Wicked Blood (Quatrefoil Chronicles #1) by Olivia Wildenstein & K
readaroundtherosie:Review: Of Wicked Blood (Quatrefoil Chronicles #1) by Olivia Wildenstein & Katie Hayoz“Don’t do anything I would do.”Of Wicked Blood begins, as with most books about magic, with a letter. We meet Slate first- a young man who’s grown up an orphan in the foster care system, confident and cocky, our generic bad boy, who’s currently doing pretty well for himself. He’s been summoned to the small town of Broom (or Broome? I listened to the audiobook) to claim his inheritance. We meet Candace next, our purest pure female MC, who up until now has not had a plethora of male attention, even though she is exceptionally attractive. She’s grown up as the daughter of the head of the university, lived and breathed the origin story of magic and myths, but they’re all just stories, right? The two meet on New Years Eve, right after Slate spends a little time grave-robbing, and they are instantly attracted to each other. Honestly, their chemistry works, although it does feel like it side-tracks the plot constantly. This would generally not have been an issue except for the fact that I was invested in the plot, really appreciated the magic system and just wanted to know more about it.Of Wicked Blood has a gorgeously dark academia atmospheric vibe to it, and a fun cast of characters. I genuinely enjoyed listening to the audiobook (hilariously, the male narrator sounds like he’s trying to impersonate Batman in the beginning, but it levels off and I wasn’t mad about it). My biggest peeve with this was just that all the characters were constantly horny. This just means they spent so much time on-page checking each other out, and considering making out with each other, there was almost more of that than there was plot- and I was really liking the plot! My second biggest peeve was that for most of the book, the female characters only thought about or talked about the male characters and very little else. It’d be nice to see more personality beyond who they’d like to climb.As a fist book in a series, it was fun, it was kinda steamy, the plot was interesting, and I’m interested to see where the series goes! It definitely has promise, and I’d recommend it for a good time. A note on the audiobook: the narration was great- I loved both voice actors for their characters and thought they did a brilliant job of bringing them all to life (Batman aside). -- source link