General’s Daughter by Heather Knight

 

1 Star

The US and the world have been destroyed by the volcano in Yellowstone erupting.  The survivors have all gotten together in small compounds run by individuals.  General Balenchuk oversees one of those compounds.  His daughter Ilsa has learned she must keep a façade on to meet her father’s expectations.  Until the day she is kidnapped to be used against her father.  The man who takes her is someone from her past she thought to never see again.  Ilsa isn’t sure if it is a good or bad that this man is back in the picture.

I know I say that one star isn’t a book I finished but I did finish this one and wish I hadn’t.  The premise of the book was interesting and not usually something I would pick up, but it intrigued me.  The sex scenes were ridiculous written.  Think someone who hasn’t been writing for long.  The story was also all over the place.  At one point they go over the one character’s entire history to where she was, and it didn’t fit into the book.  Heather Knight also had a lot of unanswered world building questions.  The world has been covered in ash so how were there forests, vegetation, and animals.  Then there was the issue of Ilsa being stabbed in the kidney.  Literally a day after leaving the hospital she goes out and hikes to get away from her father.  I’ve had surgery before there isn’t any way possible you are going out hiking after major surgery like that.  This is a hard pass.

 

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