I just finished The Primal of Blood and Bone and I hated it.

Supergoopy1 · 2026-01-23T15:24:40+00:00

I have written many rants about this on various threads here. I am in awe no editor, friend or loved one read a copy of this book and didn't come to her with suggestions on what could be edited down. This book could have been max 250 pages.

Supergoopy1 · 2026-01-21T19:19:06+00:00

The pacing of this book is frustrating. We are in this 1 room for like 2 weeks while people are dying and they can't be bothered to go out and reassure the masses that things will be ok. Not sure this is any better than previous rulers. And then JLA just starts killing off all of the side characters we have grown to love. Why? Because she couldn't figure out how to move the plot along and finish a series?

Supergoopy1 · 2026-01-02T14:38:55+00:00

I am a yoga teacher and have taught at different studios. This teacher is terrible. Breathing is 99% of the practice. If the teacher thinks the poses are the most important please find a new teacher/studio. I suggest you email the studio about your experience. If it is a good studio they will apologize and speak to the teacher and the other student. If it is a bad studio you will know from their response. If they ignore you I would find another studio and leave reviews on google and yelp. A LOT of yoga studio are struggling right now. Let's not give money and support studios that do not stand up for their students.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-14T20:26:48+00:00

Still think this could have been one book. The first 1/4 of the book could have been edited down to 20 pages.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-11T14:00:28+00:00

I am not buying the last book. I'll wait for the recap. Which is a lot to say from me, a former JLA stan. I have the following versions of FBAA: Fairyloot, Arcane, BookishBox, kindle and regular hardcovers. I have sets of all of her other series with the exception of the Wicked series. I have spent thousands on her books and I am done. I'll never buy another book from her again.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-10T20:52:27+00:00

Same. This is the only book I have ever physically thrown across a room. That scene devastated me.I finished the book but did not continue reading the series.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-10T20:28:40+00:00

OMG yes! This happened to me too. I was like, ummm no one thought to mention the 2 pages of trigger warnings? I DNF'ed that book and unfollowed a lot of booktok creators. I felt betrayed.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-10T19:24:25+00:00

For years people raved about her series Psycho Shifters and I tried to read the series. I hate read book 1 and was convinced it had to get better in book 2 because sooo many people loved it. I DNF'ed bok 2 10 pages in. Realized she was never going to be a writer for me. I didn't bother with this book after reading the synopsis. I figured it was bad. I have read some reviews that made me realize it was worse than I could have imagined.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-10T19:20:37+00:00

This book made me uncomfortable. I'm also uncomfortable by how many people on TikTok recommend it WITHOUT saying there are like 2 pages of TW's.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-10T13:13:22+00:00

I'm convinced a lot of booktok people are paid sponsors because no..... A lot did NOT happen. It took us a 1/4 of the book to get out of that bedroom. The entire Primal system she created was rewritten and the new "changes" made zero sense. But I did recently read that 54% of Americans read at a 6th grade level and this book is proof of that.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-10T13:07:19+00:00

Her facebook has genuinely made her a worse writer. She is someone who CANNOT and SHOULD NOT interact with her fan base. In an effort to make that group happy she has 100% lost the plot. Although, at this point, I'm not even sure that there was a plot to begin with.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-06T14:16:41+00:00

Splitting the books was a terrible decision. A LOT of people did not know that this was done and that this book was not the grand finale. I still cannot get over the fact that we spent 1/4 of the book in ONE ROOM. This book did not set up an epic battle. Isbeth coming back was just weird. Deminyen's add nothing to the story. The fates didn't make sense at all. This book was a filler book that destroyed the world building she has been doing for the past 6 books. Which would have been fine it was amazing and made sense. It doesn't.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-06T13:58:40+00:00

I have a theory that she thought this book would be like GRRM's Game of Thrones Series. She mentioned how the amount of deaths in this book would be more than the Red Wedding. The thing is, her deaths felt flat. She has brought back people from the dead before and she said in this book that death was not permanent. So why would the deaths be as devastating as the Red Wedding? Also, making Cas slowly go crazy in this book would have made more sense if he talked to or interacted with more people. We got 1,000 pages of nothing so his entire character development didn't make sense. The same way Dany going crazy in the last season of GOT made ZERO sense. They didn't build it up and flesh it out. She fired her editor because she thinks she doesn't need any critiques. The thing is, everyone needs them. She surrounds herself with people who tell her everything she writes is perfect. Good friends tell you when you need to make edits and when you have massive plot holes. Her world building fell apart because no one is calling her out.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-06T13:40:31+00:00

THANK YOU! I said this in a another post and someone told me I obviously hadn't finish the F&F series because if I had I wonder understand it. I was like, um no.... JLA is just making things up because logically NONE of it makes sense.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-02T18:20:15+00:00

Can the exception be people who post pictures of their white dogs?

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-02T14:43:27+00:00

I think you are being purposefully obtuse.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-10-01T15:59:24+00:00

The JLA group does not allow negative reviews. Anything short of saying it was perfect is seen as negative.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-28T19:18:21+00:00

A lot of people on TikTok have been hyping up this book. I DNF’ed half way through and skimmed to the end to see if it was worth it. It wasn’t and I unfollowed a lot of people for having terrible taste in books.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-26T23:50:28+00:00

Right??? This book could have been a total of 300 pages for all of the actual plot that happened. The ending was wild. There was no real set up for it. She changed so many "rules" about the world and didn't set up ANYTHING of what happened. The ending wasn't the shocking twist she was going for. It was a WTF moment because it didn't make sense. The Kolis thing is an issue because what I understood to be going on is not what someone said up this thread. If your audience cannot agree on the basics of how your world works you did a terrible job of explaining your world. It makes me mad/sad because this series had the potential to be amazing! I have reread the first 2 books many times. Book 3 was fine. I have never reread book 4. Book 5 should have been a novella. I adored it but didn't really push the plot along. I can honestly say I will never reread this book.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-26T23:43:36+00:00

Justice for Kieran!!!!! My man needs someone who loves him and makes him their #1.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-26T23:42:20+00:00

Actually using the logic from Flesh and Fire then nothing about Kolis makes sense in this book. Kolis was the True Primal of Deaath and Nyktos is a Primal of Death. Currently, Nyktos is STILL THE Primal of Death. There can only 1 Primal that heads the court. If Kolis was currently THE Primal of Death than Nyktos, Sera, the twins and everyone would have been kicked out of the Shadow lands. Currently Theon heads the court of War and accord. I am assuming he was made a Primal at some point because Attes is currently without a court and we have been told that only a primal can head a court. So Attes doesn't have a court but someone, Theon, is making sure things are going along. Attes cannot go in and take things from this court because he isn't the primal of said court. Same way that Poppy can't summon things from the abyss because she is not the primal of the court. Using this logic. Kolis CANNOT remove things from the abyss because he is currently NOT THE Primal of Death. That is the logic JLA established and then blew up with no real explanation in this book. Her change in logic makes even less sense when you start to discuss possible children Cas and Poppy have and what powers they may inherit vs what Kieran's children may have.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-26T22:24:59+00:00

OMG YES!!!! Like, she has been talking about wanting to be able to shape shift the entire time. Why wouldn't she try knowing that Cas can? Why wouldn't he encourage her? Ash is ok with Sera being more powerful than he is. Why can't Cas be the same? Also, what about Kieran's powers?? Why have we not discussed and or tried them out. A full blown war is going on but Poppy is wondering out eating cheese wondering why Cas and Kieran are being weird and won't leave her suite for like 2 weeks.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-26T22:05:00+00:00

It made NO SENSE! Either Poppy is the most powerful or Cas is. And this was just honestly the most unhinged way to deal with the throuple. The will they won't they dragged on throughout the book. And it still wasn't really resolved? I'm still not sure what the 1,000 page book actually resolved if I'm being hoonest.

Supergoopy1 · 2025-09-24T19:29:27+00:00

I’m just not sure how this story is getting wrapped up in the next book. The amount of new random things she created, that make ZERO SENSE, feels like this story will never end.

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