I marked Last Light Falling: the Covenant as Did Not Finish (DNF) at 42%.

I genuinely wanted to like this novel, even though I went into this novel not expecting to like it. Unfortunately at 25% I knew that Last Light Falling wasn't the book for me. I generally stay away from books that seem to, or have, Christianity as a theme in books. However I disregarded that because I was truly interested in the dystopian aspects of this novel. 

So for the most part, this book was interesting and quite the read. I enjoyed quite a few snippets of this story. However Last Light Falling has a ton of religion references and I just didn't like reading about those parts. I thought that I could endure it for the sake of this story but there's just too much of it for me. Last Light Falling seemed to be doing two things at once: telling the dystopian story/aspects of the novel, and then infused the story with almost pages full of references to god and how Arena and Gabe are the Chosen Ones. 

I was very happy that Arena was a kickass lady who did not take any bullying from anyone. I also really liked that Gabe was the brainiac to Arena's brawns. They're both smart, it's just that Gabe seems to be the genius of the twins. 

There's also a ton of dialogue and scenes that felt entirely too forced and unnatural. 

Overall, Last Light Falling was a great idea, but the story had poor execution. 

I give Last Light Falling: The Covenant, 1 star.

I went into this book blind. I got both the first and second book in the series quite a while ago on Netgalley and because I'm ridiculously unorganized, I'm only just getting to them now which means I didn't have a clue what they were about.

Wow. There is a lot of violence and a lot about faith in this book. The book focuses around two watchers called Arena and Gabe. They were orphaned when they were 9 years old and got taken in by a couple called Myra and Daniel who looked after them from then on. On their 15th birthday they received a letter addressed to them with a key and instructions from their uncle Finnigan who they hadn't seen in years and who they believed to be dead.

There is a ridiculous amount of death in this book.. Arena is what can only be described as an assassin. She has got crazy good fighting skills. She is lethal and if I'm honest I honestly don't know where she got her skills from? I guess she was just gifted with them as her and Gabe are the 'Chosen Ones'. Gabe is also a good fighter but maybe not quite in the same league as Arena. However he has a talent for all the technical stuff that could help them along their way. He also seems to be able to sense when danger is near. Which is always a good gift to have. This book gets a little confusing at times as you seem to just get a load of information dumped on you to take in and I never can so always end up forgetting some crucial bit to the plot. 

Overall this isn't a bad read and I'm intrigued to see what happens next so I'm off to continue the series.

This title wasn't for me.

I received this electronic book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. 

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this opportunity!