Promise (Seven Wonders Journals, #4) (Seven Wonders)

by Peter Lerangis

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Yeah.... The plan was to continue on to read the final book of this series after this Novella but now that I'm done with it, I feel that I need a change of pace or I'm going back to where I started with this reading slump so I'm picking up something else, still undecided on what exactly.

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Finding out more about the Loculi was something I was really really interested in, but that didn't do anything to fix or erase how utterly horrendous these characters are. Oh my god, none of them actually felt like royalty in charge of the world's most sought after and beloved mythical city. Was Peter Lerangis even trying to write about royalty and not preschoolers? Because if that's the aim, then he failed miserably. Yes, this is for a young audience but do you honestly want me to believe that future kings of Atlantis who are also 17-18 years of age, behave like they've just been plucked out of the slums? This is not funny, I'm assuming the aim was to make Karai and Massarym humorous enough for a younger audience, but all that did was make it look like a stupid decision.

I won't even be pissed if these childish things happened behind closed doors since brothers can be annoying and jealous of each other but not like this. I'm surprised the Akkadians didn't bolt when they saw that the future of Atlantis will be resting in the twins' hands, especially Massarym's. Unfortunately that's not where the stupidity of the characters end, one is blinded by power, pure ambition and basically thinking that the sky's the limit with her research but do the lives of the people matter? Of course not. Do the strange phenomenon occurring after your endeavor matter? Of course not. Is playing God really worth it? Of course it is, because what ever went wrong when humans tried to fill those shoes? A small hint; every single thing. Don't even get me started on her awful parenting methods.

She's not even the worst one, that's all preserved for his majesty the King or in this case her coat hanger, at least in that position he might actually be useful for something. Qalani and Massarym are literally playing with things they can't even begin to understand, granted Massa is basically sheep here but does the King actually stand up and show us why he's filling that throne in the first place? No. Even though he doesn't come from a royal background, he's more fitting to be her door mat than her husband. Is it really that difficult to take reins? You're the freaking King for God's sake, who also supposedly "earned his position", really? Then start being one! Of course that never happens and we're stuck with his majesty the garden gnome, I say this because they could've been exchanged and nothing would've changed.

The characters literally ruin every single interesting thing this book has, we finally learn how the lambda came into existence, we finally understand how the Loculi came into existence, we get to actually learn some more background information about Atlantis as a whole and finally we actually get to learn about a Loculus we've never seen before but do any of those amazing stuff get that big of a value when we hold it as a whole? Nope, the characters are atrocious.

Final rating: 1.5/5