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Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

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izzy_w_'s review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

it is a very good book with a captivating plot. the different perspectives and sub-plots are well managed and interesting in their own regards. however, two main flaws are that there are many characters who pop up in a manner that implies previous knowledge but there is none (by having names or super close bonds) and the ending was a little disappointing for me (regarding niamh and snow).

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eve81's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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funkylitchick's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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reubennieandthejets's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Her Majesty's Royal Coven was an engaging read. It does what all good urban fantasy does and blends our mundane reality with a fictional fantastical world in a consistent way. I was able to suspend my disbelief and get sucked onto the story because the world building made sense with reality and the fictional rules of the world Dawson created. However, Her Majesty's Royal Coven has elements that stop it from being a 4 or 5 star book for me. The change of perspective wasn't entirely successful because specific povs felt more three dimensional than others. The depth and nuance in Niamh's and Leonie's chapters made me feel like Dawson enjoyed writing from her povs more. Therefore, I skimmed whenever the pov switched to Helena or Elle because I wanted to get back to the characters that felt more fleshed out. The constant change in perspective also impacted the pacing. It felt like the book kept stopping and starting.

Personally, I think the depiction of transphobic felt slightly unbelievable and abrupt. The rhetoric Helena uses did sound realistic. I'm sure Dawson has heard those exact arguments or had them aimed at her many times. However, the extremity of Helena's transphobia felt too sudden. That level of hated comes after a period of radicalisation and being in an echo chamber of disinformation. So I think, scenes of Helena seeking out other witches should have came before she jumped straight from mild disgust and confusion to fully fledged extremist terf rheotic.

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reb_curt's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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r_gale's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Loved this book, took a while for me to get into it with the chapters jumping between 4 characters. But once I hit the half way point I struggled to put it down.

Love the way she writes so clever and funny and the characters are so well rounded, can't wait to read the next book !

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