Penny Well Reads's Reviews > Claimed

Actual Rating 2.5 stars

I see how this book can be liked by so many people. However, for me it wasn’t there. The whole thing was too silly and irrational for my taste.

Olivia’s struggles were ridiculous. She was fighting something with reasons that had no fundaments and were illogical. She had no idea of anything and refused to inform herself on anything but she felt justified on her behavior. Since her reasoning lacked sense, I couldn’t care much for her or what was happening to her. She became annoying and absurd to me so, the whole time I had a feeling of randomness and thus, of pointlessness.

Baird has an incredible lack of character development. The whole book is filled with general and unimportant details and yet we get no depth on what actually matters, the main characters. I have no problem with all that extra information because it makes the world a bit richer, but is worthless with empty characters.

The conflict at the end seems like an afterthought. Not well though or develop at all, just put there as a completely random breaking point so Olivia could have a radical change of mind. Just absurd.

The romance was not romantic, meaningful or justified. It is an instant-love situation that has no explanation. He loves her just because she is her mate even though he doesn’t really know her (the shared dreaming is not enough), and she suddenly realizes she loves him, but I don’t know why or how that happened. So the romance was also a fail for me.

Then, I have to say that I found the sex scenes very mediocre, so...

The parts I enjoyed the most were the world building aspects, and although it seems promising for future installments of this series , it is not enough to sustain this book.
Since I didn’t care much for the characters and their story, the book ended up being too long for me and yet, almost empty.

To conclude, I’ll admit that I am curious about the Twins situation. I might read another installment with Twin Kindreds as main characters.


Claimed (Brides of the Kindred, #1) - 2.5 stars
Hunted (Brides of the Kindred, #2) - 4 stars
Sought (Brides of the Kindred, #3) - 3.5 stars
Found (Brides of the Kindred, #4) - 3.5 stars
Exiled (Brides of the Kindred, #7) - 4 stars
Shadowed (Brides of the Kindred, #8) - 3.5 stars
Chained (Brides of the Kindred, #9) - 3 stars
Divided (Brides of the Kindred, #10) - 2 stars
Devoured (Brides of the Kindred, #11) - 3 stars
Enhanced (Brides of the Kindred, #12) - 3.5 stars