Eigentlich Lese ich ja keine Fantasy Romane, aber der hier hat mich richtig mitgerissen, es war einfach unfassbar spannend. Ich konnte garnicht aufhören zu lesen😃

3,75 / 5 I went into this book knowing very little to nothing. I liked the cover, liked the title, the description seemed right up my alley, so I went for it. I knew that The Hurricane Wars is speculated to be a monthly pick for a book box, so I expected a fantasy book one way or another, but I quickly realized that this book is scifi-ish + fantasy and romance, which, quite frankly, scifi isn’t my cup of tea. Though I have to admit the way and the scifi amount in this book works juuuuuuuust about fine for me. The book is divided into two parts, with the first part the first 160 pages. I must honestly say, during that first part, anything that has to do with worldbuilding, this book somehow lost me. Everytime a name was dropped, I had to take a second to think if this is a term for something, a person or a place. And even the names and terms that have been dropped up until this point, I also had to take a second to search my brain where to sort this into (Is this good? Is this the enemy? What are they talking about? ???). It felt chaotic and I can’t really say if it’s a me-thing or a book-thing. A map would have been great here, though I know the final version will have one. Everytime the ships were described, my brain painted the picture of ships like in the Disney movie “Treasure Island”. I would say the only parts I enjoyed thus far were the conversations between certain characters. Bottom line is: After 160 pages I remained confused and just as knowledgeable as I was when I started this book, so I understand when this is the moment people would decide to DNF. Thank the lords it actually got better in the second part, which over all seemed more romance and court politics heavy. I was hooked and invested. There’s a lot more interaction between the characters, which I really liked. The writing overall seemed more cohesive and I am less confused. Some of the writing though reminded me a lot of Laini Taylor’s in Daughter of Smoke & Bone, which was really really nice. I liked Talasyn and Alaric as main characters. Both scarred (not literally) in their own ways because of their past and growing up and fighting during the Hurricane Wars, sworn enemies and understandably not very willing to spend more time with each other than necessary, ended up having great chemistry. I did like that Talasyn was quite feisty during basically every encounter with Alaric, however, even though I mentioned that the writing seemed more cohesive, the way Talasyn sometimes spoke to Alaric didn’t always seem to match the general writing style, which had a very odd feel to it. This might be because of either their age difference or because of how they grew up? Talasyn, an orphan and a trained soldier, while Alaric grew up as a royal. Not sure. The last thing I expected was some of the dialogues to be funny, showing even more so of their great chemistry! The dual pov, which started very loosely and got more and more frequent during the course of the book, was great for understanding the characters and at the same time showed very well that they don’t seem to understand each other at all. I do hope though that the final version will have something to indicate a pov-change!! Something to note is that the pacing was..a choice I guess? It was a back and forth for me between “ok this makes sense” and “I’m pretty sure several days and weeks have passed at this point, but it’s like the characters haven’t moved on? How are we still stuck in “this thing that’s supposed to happen in 5 months””. Unless the second part and those 300 pages were to cover about roughly 2 weeks ? All in all: I enjoyed it. I might do a reread once the book is out for discussion purposes. I’m excited for the sequel as well as for any fan art, which I think this book actually provides a great foundation for. Thank you HarperCollins UK for providing this book for review via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.