Like I mentioned above, there were some characters that I felt weren't as fleshed out. Larson even made me start to love Rylan, a character that annoyed the crap out of me sometimes. By the time Endure rolled around, I empathized for every single one of them. I didn't necessarily feel for the characters in Defy, but I started to in Ingite. I did get a couple answers to my questions, but a lot of the foundation of the world was vague. The world building was also a little shaky when Larson tried to expand it in Ignite and Endure. There wasn't really anything that humanized them, so they weren't as believable. However, the villains were just completely evil through and through.

I really appreciated the fact that the heroes in the story had their faults and weren't perfect. There were some characters that I felt were never fully fleshed out, and for that reason the novels didn't hold as much of an impact.

While I gave the second book 3.5 stars, Endure received 4.25 stars for me!Īnother issue I had throughout the series was that it didn't really influence me that much until the last book. The final book in this trilogy by far is the best. The stakes were raised and the end left the third book to be highly anticipated without being an obnoxious cliffhanger. However, I enjoyed the second one, Ignite, a lot more. I actually had less expectations from the first one just because of second book syndrome. Ignite on the other hand, completely blew away my expectations. Though I only gave the first three stars, it does not mean that I like it. She decides to not tell people a secret because she is worried of their reaction, when not telling them only gives them more danger.ĭefy was a fun start to the series. Alexa is not just rash at times, but stupid. One of Alexa's biggest flaws as a character is that she is rash, but I think Larson overdid it a bit. Though she still makes some irritating decisions in the third book, she is more reasonable. She often keeps vital information to herself. My main issue throughout the series was the decisions that Alexa made on her own. Alexa was hard to like at times due to her thought process, but that has vastly improved in the next two books. Our main character is consequently thrown into a world she never new existed. Things go awry when Alexa, Prince Damian, and Rylan all get captured.

Not only is Alexa the best fighter there is, she also is part of the prince's guard. However, that is when the similarities change. The series is very Mulan-like in the fact that our main character, Alexa, cross-dresses as a male in order to be in the army. While I had my issues with it, the story itself was very quick paced. I picked up the first book, Defy, on a whim and completely devoured it. The Defy series is one that I never expected I would read this year.

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