The Centaur's Last Breath

by April Fernsby

[Charli G.]

I'll be honest, this book wasn't a favorite of mine. It just didn't capture and keep my attention like I would have liked it to. I found it all too easy to put this one down and not pick it back up. I had to remind myself that I needed to read it for the review just to get through it.

For one thing, I took the book under the guise that it was a brand new, yet-to-be-released book. It's not. It was released over a year ago and there are actually twelve books in the series so far. Another issue is that this book is actually book number three in the series so I came into it without any knowledge of what had transpired in the first two books. There's just enough background that you won't necessarily need to read the first two, but I really dislike reading books out of order.

Honestly, the characters were rather... meh. I could take or leave any of them - although I can really leave Astrid. But the unrequited love between Luca and Cassia is less stiff and forced, making it painful to read scenes between the two. Astrid's burning hatred for Cassia is clear throughout the book and it seems to be a far more prevalent point than it should have been. The only character I truly enjoyed was Stanley and that's probably because he's a talking cat.

I gave this one 3 stars because it's not horrible, but it's not great either. It's just kind of meh. Maybe it just wasn't the book for me.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.