Ashley's Reviews > A Power Unbound

unfortunately did not enjoy this as much as i wanted to :( i think it would have been much better for the series if there had been a 3rd book with just alan and jack on a fun little adventure of their own and then a 4th instalment that was multi-pov or something to wrap up the plot. as it is it almost feels like you’re reading two books forced into one as marske tries to juggle both developing the romance and wrapping up the story. the tension becomes especially apparent in the second half where jack and alan spend long stretches of time serving as essentially vessels of narration and observation for the reader as the plot happens to other people. honestly i think the main couple should be the lynchpin of their own book! instead i was just hoping for an edwin pov cos my man really carried this group to the finish line.

a bit of a shame because i could appreciate jack and alan’s dynamics and i think it would have been really fun if they had more narrative space to develop! but i guess tetralogy is less sexy to say than trilogy lol