Guys! Guys! Guys! I'm so excited about this one (first in the series is achillean if you're interested, I'm just jumping straight into the sapphics)Guys! Guys! Guys! I'm so excited about this one (first in the series is achillean if you're interested, I'm just jumping straight into the sapphics)...more
Creepy forest, lesbians, murder and resurrection, awful families! This sounds so good I'll actually read a book by a man for the second time this year.Creepy forest, lesbians, murder and resurrection, awful families! This sounds so good I'll actually read a book by a man for the second time this year. God bless. ...more
In the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous miIn the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love [image]...more
Thank you to Willow Haven Press and NetGalley for this ARC copy
Crown of Slumber was a refreshing take on a fairyt I was… dancing in the forest [image]
Thank you to Willow Haven Press and NetGalley for this ARC copy
Crown of Slumber was a refreshing take on a fairytale, that managed to twist the story while never losing the classic feeling.
(4.5/5)
As a Romantasy, I think it succeeded at making the relationship between out main characters believable. Both were three-dimensional , had their own motivations and backstories that didn't revolve around each other, and were lovable enough to care about for the almost 500 pages.
Positive: -Well done characters -Interesting plot -Interesting world-building (including the lore of the world itself, and the particular magic/powers of each of the creatures and people we were introduced to) -The disagreements. Our characters were attracted to each other from the beginning, (which I find much more believable than them only realizing after 400 pages) -Almost 500 pages total but it's super fast paced and easy to read. The last maybe 70 pages felt a little dragged out and that brings me to my one negative below.
Negative: -The conflict of the third act of the novel felt both predictable and not up to part with the rest of the story. It was easy to anticipate, the most obvious option, but felt a bit lazy given what we knew (Spoilers: the power our main character had and, on top of that, her stubbornness made it a little unbelievable that she was not able to just... get out of that situation. I understand panicking, feeling defeated, etc, but every other time she was presented with a dangerous situation, she was resourceful and fearless. It felt like her reaction to this new problem was only different because we needed it to last a bit more and be the final issue, which tends to take more than a chapter to fix)
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