I did it, it may have taken me a little bit longer than I anticipated but I finally finished the Monsters and Muses series. We’ve gone full circle here, ending the series in the same way that it began with my least favorite trope, the virgin. I was hoping it would have gone out with a bang. There was banging, but it could have been just so much better if the female main character wasn’t a virgin. I will say though, that everything was wrapped up fairly well.
Our female main character in this story is Violet, the half sister of Kallum, of whom we meet in the very first book, Promises and Pomegranates. I wasn’t very enthusiastic about getting a book focused on her, I have never much liked her in any of the books where she has made an appearance in the past. And honestly, out of all six books and the book one prequel, this book was my least favorite. I didn’t really like Violet any more by the end of this story than I had liked her in book one or any other time she was mentioned in any of the other books. I kind of didn’t care for the male main character either. His name is Grayson James, and if that name sounds familiar, it is. He is the uncle of Aiden from Vipers and Virtuosos, although they are fairly close in age due to Grayson’s father being kind of a lecher. There are sort of a lot of messed up men in this family of musicians. I don’t really want to discuss the plot any more because I just can’t find the motive to make the effort over a book I didn’t enjoy all that much. If you have read the rest of the series, and you are a stickler for finishing things you’ve started, and you don’t care what I have to say, then I encourage you to read it. If you were a fan of the series overall, you will definitely want to read the epilogue.
Because I don’t want to discuss the plot, I will give my final opinion on the series. I thought it was really excellent. I loved how everyone is connected to everyone else in some way. It can be a little overwhelming at times, but it is not overly confusing. I was a little let down that I didn’t get a book about Boyd and Fiona. That was, until I went to Sav’s website and saw that she has a trilogy of King’s Trace novels and one of them focuses on these two. I am very excited about this because ever since I finished book two, Vipers and Virtuosos, I wanted to delve deeper into King’s Trace. On top of that, it looks as though another trilogy of books is going to come out in January of next year, and I believe these stories will star the offspring of some of the Monsters and their Muses. I have a lot to look forward to with this series and I am anticipating great things from Ms. Miller.
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