What Hunts Inside the Shadows: your next fantasy romance obsession! (Of Flesh and Bone Book 2) (Of Flesh & Bone)

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All the things that were wrong with the first book in this series have been amplified in this book. The mate bond is not just a crutch anymore (in the first book, the author used it to force the female MC to like the male MC), now its a fully formed wheel chair rolling the plot forward. The crass and vulgar moments between characters are exacerbated, the mind-numbingly idiotic possessiveness and jealousy between characters is also played up to the point that it felt like they'd regressed to the age of teenagers (maybe its a young author? I don't know). In fact, a lot of the emotional pin-wheeling that the characters do in this book seems to be for no reason other than to stir up pointless emotional drama and hide the fact the book has no real action driving its plot. The pacing of the book feels so off to me and so slow. It really felt dragging and once or twice I thought about DNF´ing but decided to power my way through it.

I mean seriously. As much as I enjoyed the characters, the sass, and some interesting build-up of the series. I AM BORED. I WANT ACTION TO HAPPEN NOW. I WANT THINGS TO HAPPEN NOW, NOT JUST FORESHADOWING OF THINGS TO COME. Caldris: “Everything you have felt is real. Everything you will continue to feel for me is real. You were made to be mine.” DNF at 56%…life’s too short to read books that I can already guess the ending of (and it’s annoying). You know me as well as you know yourself, my star. The heart that beats inside your chest is mine. The soul that resides within your body has been mine for longer than you have existed,” I said, keeping my voice soft and gentle as I took another half-step toward her. “Everything you have felt is real. Everything you will continue to feel for me is real. You were made to be mine.”This book was like A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire had a baby with A Ruin of Roses, but not in a good way because all the characters and plot points felt recycled from one or the other of those two stories. Nothing original or exciting enough to keep me going, sorry. Speaking of plot, I literally gave up reading about halfway. Too obvious where things were headed, and I didn't care enough for any of the characters in this raunchy, horrible book to bother continuing to watch it all play out.

This one is definitely better than the first one. By a lot. But while it's better, it's still nowhere perfect.What Hunts Inside the Shadows is the second book in the Flesh and Bone series. This is book 2 of a 6 book series and I will be discussing some of the aftermath of the events in book 1 so this is a spoiler free review for this book but do not proceed if you do not wish to be spoilered. Events in Book 1. this whole book was just them riding on a horse or sleeping in a tent. I don’t like when the entire story is just them traveling. caldris is still as awful as he was in book one. this guy is supposed to be centuries old and yet several times basically loses it when estrella tells him she needs some more time. he's violent and demanding and i find him childish... and it just escapes my mind how i'm meant to find him a good romantic partner for estrella. i just don't like this whole 'he becomes mindless with rage' thing, it gets on my nerves. estrella is boring for the most part so she's not compelling as a main character - she has her moments of showing some sort of a personality, but they happen very sporadically through-out the book and after not caring for most of the book about her, i couldn't bring myself to care about her when she decided to show she had some personality after all.