Book Review
Title: SeQuence Unbound
Author: Lorraine L.M.L.
Genre: YA/Fantasy/Romance
Rating: ****
Review: So, this review is going to be short and to the point as I can’t discuss a lot of this book without giving away major spoilers for the series, but this is definitely the book where we get the answers we have wanted since book 1 and where the stakes are taken to completely new levels for all the characters, not just Lessi.
One of the first things I noticed with Unbound is we get several new perspectives that we haven’t seen in the books in this series and I was very excited with this and I wasn’t overly upset about losing a certain character’s perspective because after the last two books I had really gone off this character. One thing that I really enjoyed about Unbound was the motivations of all the characters and the different directions the character arcs go in. For example, Lessi’s character arc which had been building over the course of the previous 3 novels really takes a serious turn away from the romance and to the overall problems that her world is facing and how she develops as a person.
In the previous 3 novels, I did feel that some of the characters felt a little flat, but this novel really fixed that. We know that Lessi, Jad and Dante have unique voices, flaws, and virtues but we are introduced to more characters and they have been really fleshed out and one of the best is Jizu. Jizu is a morally ambiguous character but as we learn more about him as a man and a father it brings a degree of clarity to the history of this world which we haven’t had before.
The main goal of this novel is very clear however, there are more goals for individual characters that really shine in Unbound that didn’t have the chance to shine in previous novels. While I won’t go into too much detail Jad’s journey was the one that really stood out to me and he was a character that I felt had so much wasted potential in the previous novels, but he fulfills that potential and more in Unbound.
On the other side of this, the antagonist’s motivation is also clear. In the grand scheme of things, this provided so much tension and suspense that it really keeps you hooked. I also found in the previous novels there was an issue with pacing and Unbound didn’t suffer from this. It felt fast paced in the action scenes and felt slow in places that were meant to draw you in and keep you hanging.
While these books have focused a lot on the romance before this really takes a back seat for the majority of the novel which I was very happy with as it wasn’t overwhelming the reader to the bigger issues that the characters were facing but when it was used it was used in such a way that it felt fresh, new and added more to the story than taking it away.
I haven’t talked much about what actually happens within the novel as it isn’t possible without spoiling this novel and the previous ones if you haven’t read them yet, but all I can say is Unbound was my favourite book in the series so far and it really took away any doubts I had from the previous three novels and I can’t wait for book 5 after the way this one ended. One thing I didn’t enjoy was the introduction of a certain character as I felt that even though this character was needed, I didn’t like their personality and the way they acted in general, but I didn’t let that distract me from the characters that I did enjoy. I also wanted to see more of certain characters, but I am hoping I will have that in the next book.
This book isn’t released until November 8th but you can pre-order it now and if you haven’t started the series yet there is a week to catch up before this installment comes out.
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Kindle Edition: amazon.co.uk amazon.com
Also see: Sequence by Lorraine M. L. M.
I received this review copy from the author.
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