The Marionettes

I look back on this series and I want to throw the books because it started out SO good. The premise was cool – blood witches (Marionettes) become bodyguards to Royalty. Even how they use their magic is cool and unique. I loved the initial development of a forbidden romance with a little love triangle. But then a 4th was brought in…and all hell broke loose. Well, in the completely opposite boring way.

Katie confused me on which MMC I was actually rooting for. Which we like, right? Because, it’s usually made pretty damn clear by the end who we should be rooting for. But in this series, nope! So it feels like EITHER choice (it came down to 2 really at the end) was a bummer and no matter what, we maybe wanted her with the other person. Like, which relationship are we rooting for here? I don’t even think Katie really knew TBH… That really tainted the series for me. It just kind of unraveled and got messy at the end and that felt unnecessary when it was all going so right for 75% of the series!

I was torn between 2.5 and 3 but bumped it up because there are so many unique and cool aspects of this series and it’s my perfect 4 book length. Just know you might be left a little WTF-ish at the end.