Review: Destined

Destined by Aprilynne Pike

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I'm not exactly sure what I liked about this series before. That's happened with many young adult books that I read last year and the year before. I think it's because I read so many adult series more recently and I see way too many flaws with the characters and the stories lately.

This was the final book of this series and it disappointed me a bit. Laurel is pretty much completely useless throughout the whole book. It's ridiculous that she let her friends come with her into faerie. When they did get to faerie and the war began, Laurel was mostly in the way or running away. In regards to her human friends, it's one thing if they went to the gate and then Jameson demanded they come. But her friends didn't know what they were getting into and they should have stayed back so that she didn't have to worry about them.

After all that Klea had done, there were opportunities when they could have killed her but it didn't happen. Tamani ended up having a few perfect chances to kill Klea but Laurel stopped him. The reason being that Laurel wanted answers to why Klea did what she did. Most villains have the same goals: rule the world, kill you all because you're in my way, and rule the world. That's the main point. And Tam had the perfect opportunity to kill her. Laurel couldn't really do anything until the very end after Klea poisoned everyone because they didn't kill her first. Klea played everyone which I feel makes most of them not too bright for not realizing certain things earlier before so many people died. It's like I just want all the villains to die or everyone who makes a mistake but Klea would have never stopped and Uki made way too many mistakes. I was satisfied with the ending but not so much with the book as a whole.



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