Heartless

Great new world.

First of all a note to myself - stop reading other peoples reviews before reading the book. As much as I love to see other people thoughts on the story it really messes up the expectations of the characters, as everyone sees them differently.
The world is beautiful and fun, as much as I didn’t like the idea that the computer game “Cookie” is plying in the mortal world resembles the fae world, obviously, now when I have finished the book, makes a lot of sense. At the beginning I thought it may cheapen the story but now when I finished it opens up a lot of different options for next stories and characters. As 100% Kaysar’s sister is alive and well, probably in the mortal world, 85% she is the one who have created the computer game… but time will tell, as there is so many questions with how’s and why’s, that only Gena will be able to tell.
I’m concerned now, why haven’t we seen Kaysars room?! His kingdom at all?! I was so eager to see all the jars with tongues and etc. Instead we get his forgotten realm… that now belongs to Cookie. There could probably be another book about how Cookie discovers Kaysars real self by entering his home and bedroom…
I love the concept of this story and characters. Love the “mad hatter” vibes and the craziness of it all, as well I like that cruelty and slaughter is acceptable and both characters encourage each other. Obviously everyone who is killed has deserved it, because they are against the King or the new Queen, so there is no guilt or disgust about their actions. It’s completely clear why someone is killed. To be honest there is more room for more gruesome scenarios. As crazy and violent as they all are, more specific details could be revealed. Sometimes I was waiting to read something disgusting or something that would make me cringe, but everything is more or less plain, a lot of killing, some bloodshed but nothing specific. It could be spiced up more, but then I’m not the majority of the readers. Maybe it’s not what everyone wants to read.
Kaysar - you can’t not love him - who doesn’t love a sexy bad boy (fae) who have suffered all his life and only “the one and only” (Chantel) can make him happy and save him. I think I always have gravitated towards couples where the female saves the male from his own suffering. She makes him understand, at the end of course, what he couldn’t see for all this time… thousands of years.
Chantel supposed to grow as a character, find her true self, for some reason the ability to feel the emotion of others skins “garments”, or it just strengthens her own specific emotion or trait, doesn’t really convince me that she has grown… more like she had been like that from the begging, just now everyone else can see it too. She is very rational and strategic from the beginning, she has developed new powers, she has fallen in love, found new home… she has it all and she is more or less calm about it all. I loved that Kaysar could show his anger more, because nothing goes away in one day, he takes some time to figure stuff out… maybe a little longer than anticipated, but he has good reasons for that and it makes everything more believable. The only thing I was not a fan of - the bribing - he really overcompensated with the gifts and she was very greedy to accept and keep them all. Felt like harpy vibes with their love for shiny items, but it throw me off every time from their emotional connection. I got distracted, he gives her everything and she just takes it and after some time just forgives his actions towards her. I get it, thats the way how people react to the ones you love, but I don’t think he needed to give her all these gifts, I wanted him to somehow differently show his true feelings.
It took me a wile to read this book, maybe because I really don’t like e-books, I should just be more patient and order the paperback, but i’m really looking forward for the future stories. I think it will be great and definitely enjoyable series.