Love the Belador Series and can't wait for book 5! The only thing I don't like about the series is I just wish they were released closer together, by the time the next book comes out I have to get 2 chapters in to remember what's going on. That being said the writing, story and characters are FANTASTIC! I was so glad that Evalle finally let down some barriers with Storm but now we can't find Storm...Lol! Poor Quinn and Tzader will they seem to never find their HEA! Hurry up with number 5 please..... I honestly don't understand how this book can have 4 and 5 star ratings on this site. This book was horribly written. I can only assume that the high rating is because only fans of the author are reading this book.I will give any book a chance, but it has to be well written. This book could desperately stand to go through some more editing. For example, the authors continuously use vague terms to describe characters or what's going on. Every male character is described as 'handsome' or 'gorgeous' with nothing to explain to us what that actually /means/. How do these male characters actually /look/? What I find handsome is not what some other reader will find handsome, so just dropping one-word descriptors on these guys is not helpful to us. And does every male in the world have to be amazing to look at, in this story? Is not one guy in this woman's life average-looking or not attractive?I found the same vague words to be confounding by the end of the story. The main character is described as being transformed into an aqua-colored gryphon, but that is basically all we are given for a descriptor. The authors hardly describe her at all, and later on in the story she is said to have 'feathers and scales.' This is truly perplexing. Since when do gryphons have scales? And then later on one of the gryphons picks up a sword and uses it. I'm sorry, aren't gryphons four-footed creatures? At this point I'm thinking, "Do the authors even know what a gryphon is?" If they are picturing a gryphon with scales that can hold and use a sword, it would have been helpful if they had actually described what a gryphon in this world looks like when the character first transformed into it.The entire plot feels contrived and uninteresting, with characters showing up conveniently out of nowhere to save the day. The climax was completely confusing with apparently a war going on, but barely any description of the fighting at all so we have no idea of the scope of what is happening. The cover shows a woman with a sword, so I expected a sword to have some significance in the story. It did not.From the front cover to the last page, I was disappointed. I will not be reading any other volumes in this series.
What do You think about Rise Of The Gryphon (2013)?
Love the Belador series.Evalle is another great kick butt heroine.
—sophieMaye
Gah!!!!! I can't believe I have to wait for more!
—AndromedaFox
