Our Dark Duet: A Mostly Satisfying Conclusion to the Duology

Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab is the conclusion to a monster-filled duology. I love the horror genre, so I really enjoyed the first book in the series, This Savage Song. Our Dark Duet was one of my most anticipated novels of 2017, and while I enjoyed it on the whole, there were a few minor things that didn’t quite add up for me.

THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.

KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.

AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.

THE WAR HAS BEGUN.

THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.

Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in. And a new monster is waiting—one that feeds on chaos and brings out its victims' inner demons.

Which will be harder to conquer: the monsters they face, or the monsters within?

To see my review of the first novel in the series, This Savage Song, click here. 

What I liked:

1. THE MONSTERS!! Hands down this will always be my favorite part of this series. I just love the monsters that Schwab created. I love how they’re created, what they do, and why they do it. They are some of the coolest things I’ve come across in fiction in a really long time.

2. The cities, Verity and Prosperity. Going along with the monsters, I love the run-down, corrupt world that these people and monsters live in. Schwab did such an awesome job crafting these bleak, amoral societies. They’re delicious to read about!

3. The potential of the Chaos Eater, the new monster in this series. It was creepy AF, and I loved the anticipation of what we were going to find out about it. Where did it come from? What does it do? How do we defeat it?!? View Spoiler »And I really wanted to know how it’s connection with Kate would play out! « Hide Spoiler

Ultimately I enjoyed the book quite a bit. The ending wasn’t quite what I hoped for, so when I finished, instead of feeling all these flurry of emotions like I would want, I kind of shrugged and was like, okay, that was a fun book.

What is a good monster book you’ve read? 

A.S. Thornton

A.S. Thornton has evolved from book blogger to author with a particular fondness for writing forbidden love in ancient deserts. When not writing, she’s caring for dogs and cats as a veterinarian. You’ll never find animals at the center of her writing, though, because those fictional worlds don’t have veterinarians and her literal brain can’t accept that the poor critters would be without parasite prevention. Thornton’s debut, DAUGHTER OF THE SALT KING is available wherever books are sold.