Review: Three to Find (Hemlock Academy Series Book 3) by Kelsey Soliz

Three to Find by Kelsey Soliz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Steamiest Yet

I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.

I wasn’t as big a fan of this book as I was the first two. It was much less subtle world building and more banging the conduit at every opportunity. There was so much less plot too. This is fine if you are looking for silly humour and heated sex scenes, but I’d come to expect more depth and this book didn’t have that.

The book starts with a weird evil villain monologue as Night declares his version of history and his intents, whilst being interrupted by his heir telling him he’s mad and basically that sets the tone for much of the book, as he crawls out of the woodwork. It’s hard to assign him any level of threat after this introduction and it totally changes the way the series is heading.

The goddess has declared that Gabby gets some extra mates because she’s done so well with the first batch. They are all living in the big mansion kept for the leaders of the Conduits that has been empty for a long time and only used for visiting dignitaries. They also dropped out of Hemlock Academy (which is why I find the title of the series a bit strange). They are studying from home because they have to work as council leaders.

The majority of this book is taken up with the search for new mates and the Conduit Gala. Incidents that would normally have peril are muted by the ridiculous nature of the book's villain. To be honest, the goddess wasn’t much less ridiculous and on several occasions, the characters interacted with the readers in a way that just didn’t work for me, because it was suddenly dropped into the style of writing.

This book almost didn’t feel like the same author. There was much less clever layering and more A to B's in a direct route. I’ll probably give myself a break from this series because I’m not sure of how the next book is going to be. If it’s like the first two books then sign me up, but if it’s going to continue like this book I’m not going to bother.

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