J. BreeRomance · Romantasy
Unbroken Bonds
Synopsis
The narrator has already survived the man who tortured her, broke her and chased her across the world. His death was supposed to close the fight. It only opens a larger one, because gods live among humans in this setting.
After thousands of years apart, the god bonds that tie these people to the old powers have come back together. They have woken hungry and show no sign of backing down. Research could not prepare the narrator and her allies for the enemies and the wars that have run across millennia.
The group now has to act, and this time they hold an advantage: they are Bonded. Whether that is enough to outlast the gods and whatever the gods have planned is the open question. So is whether the peaceful world they have fought for is within reach, or whether history is set to repeat itself.
This is a fantasy with a modern-day setting, told in the first person by a survivor of abuse. It continues an earlier fight, so expect to be dropped into a conflict already underway. The tone looks to be tense and high stakes, with old grudges and a looming war driving the pace.
How it reads
- <b> I think this is the perfect example of making characters invincible by overpowering them and no longer knowing how to handle it.</b><br><br>We’re being told since book 4 how strong Oli is, we’ve read scenes where she gets to a place and kills everyone in matter of seconds. In this one the whole bonded group becomes the strongest people on earth. And it makes everything boring and anticlimactic, no one is stronger than them, so the villains and conflicts doesn’t feel believable and realistic anymore no matter how much the author tries to introduce new threats. <br><br><b> The plot: </b> I really liked the beginning of the series, I think the concept was great, even though it had its flaws I thought than giving the length of the series everything was going to fall into place. But the more the story progress the more it started to deviate from the original concept. I didn’t like god-bonds plot. I really wished the story would have concentrated in The Resistance and the tension between the gifted and the non-gifted people, although it was an interesting and original turn to the story, the gods only brought more questions without an answer, created plot holes and incoherent scenes.<br><br><b> The Characters: </b> For me this is one the series strongest points of the series (or was), every mmc had a distinct personality and Oli was a very strong female lead. Even if I didn’t like some parts of the story the characters were the ones that made me keep reading the next book because I truly liked them, but in the last books they all become a shadow of what they were and their interactions are unimportant to the story. Suddenly all they do is build things, and have sleepovers.<br><br><b> The Length of the series: </b> I love that there is a cover for each main character, and they’re beautiful and look amazing together but dragging the story for 6 books is unnecessary. The pages are filled with side stories and characters that don’t really matter, and then there’s all of that repetitiveness of mundane scenes that add nothing to the story, not even to the relationships of the bonds and this is something that happened from the first book, I felt like I was constantly reading the same scenes, phrases and words over and over again. And there’s only so much you can ignore, before you need a break. <br><br><b> The Ending: </b> I think the biggest downfall is that you know that Oli could have finished the battle since the beginning of the book. And the villain felt very plain. I had no idea who that person was and also didn’t care. With Silas you had previous history and you hated him, but Pain was irrelevant and The Eternal could have sucked her soul in the first meeting, I didn’t even understand why they needed Nox’s plan.<br><br>I don’t want to only bring out the negative, because overall I liked the concept, I liked where it was heading, but I was rushing through the last books just to know the ending, not to actually enjoy the events leading to it. <br><br>Overall what I’ll remember most will be the characters, and it’s something that I can’t say from most books and series.
- This series is hands down a hidden gem! It is so bloody good. However, I am slightly disappointed by how this book played out. I feel that the actual ending was a bit rushed and that death was used as a shock factor. Vivian did not need to die, I understand that it was used as a 'motivator' but at the same time this could have been done differently, had he been kidnapped and tortured and the like. But his death seemed to have been thrown into the story as a shock factor and had no other real purpose.