Nicky Anderson's Reviews > Kneel

DNF

Considering how much I loved the Saints of Serenity Falls series, this seriously fell flat.

Talia has been enrolled to attend boarding school, Arbour Academy. It's her last semester before she goes to college. Where did she go before Arbour, why has she been enrolled at Arbour for only her final year?

There is mention of a twin brother Brody who is no longer around. It's been a year since something happened to him...what happened to him? I would expect to know more considering how often he was mentioned in the first 8 chapters.

So many characters were introduced, but I felt no connection to any of them, not even Talia. I had no idea who these people were, only that most of them are referred to as the Elites.

Most of what I read was Talia in the canteen watching/listening to people.

Talia was mildly warned a couple of times by people to stay away from them.

The blurb says this is a dark contemporary romance with off the charts, stomach churning angst, enemies to lovers themes, some scenes of bullying, but I got to 28% (112 pages which includes the prologue and 8 chapters out of 26) before I DNF'd, and I didn't encounter any of the above. I definitely gave the book a chance to grab me, but unfortunately it didn't.

Because of the blurb and the prologue, what I read made me feel like I was reading a different book.

Spice is slow in Lily's books, so I wanted more plot and I just wasn't getting any.