Dark Frost by Jennifer Estep

Dark Frost (Mythos Academy, #3)

by Jennifer Estep

I've seen so many freaky things since I started attending Mythos Academy last fall. I know I'm supposed to be a fearless warrior, but most of the time, I feel like I'm just waiting for the next Bad, Bad Thing to happen. Like someone trying to kill me--again.

Everyone at Mythos Academy knows me as Gwen Frost, the Gypsy girl who uses her psychometry magic to find lost objects--and who just may be dating Logan Quinn, the hottest guy in school. But I'm also the girl the Reapers of Chaos want dead in the worst way. The Reapers are the baddest of the bad, the people who murdered my mom. So why do they have it in for me? It turns out my mom hid a powerful artifact called the Helheim Dagger before she died. Now, the Reapers will do anything to get it back. They think I know where the dagger is hidden, but this is one thing I can't use my magic to find. All I do know is that the Reapers are coming for me--and I'm in for the fight of my life.

Reviewed by Jordon on

3 of 5 stars

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For me the beginning of this book was rather slow and boring, but it picked up halfway through and got really interesting to read. I enjoyed this book, it was entertaining but there was something that kept me from loving it.

I feel like this whole series is on auto pilot. It feels rather shallow and like the author is just churning out books but doesn't actually enjoy writing this story. Maybe. I can't quite put my feelings into the right words but I feel like this whole series is lacking something huge.

There were things in this book that I was sure was meant to move emotional mountains. But I felt unfazed by them. I wasn't completely pulled in to feel the emotions it was trying to illicit. In fact I felt rather removed from the characters and the events because for some reason this story just felt very cookie cut out or paper thin. It felt like the same paranormal romance I've read a hundred times before. It didn't feel original at all.

All the same though I enjoyed this book for what it was. I enjoy this series for what it is.

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