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An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

23 reviews

nimeneth's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Kidnapping

margaret_k30's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

alyvia_jeane's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Kidnapping and Gore

fionamatilda's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Kidnapping

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

vagrantheather's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

At 12-14 I probably would've loved this. At 30-something I just cannot tolerate the shallow/nonexistent relationship building. I thought the fae were poorly done - Rook especially, who's just an awkward straightforward human but with special fae magic and immortal hotness. There is nothing strange or unearthly about him. It's a tired gripe now to complain about obscenely ancient beings falling in love with 17 year old protagonists; similarly tired to gripe about teenagers who have unearned mastery over extremely difficult fields. 

I could not enjoy the writing because it felt like the author was trying to use $5 words rather than choosing the best words to convey her intent. It's not the worst prose - better than ACOTAR - just noticeable. Descriptors felt empty; pretty phrasing that meant nothing. 

The over the top declarations of love were gag inducing and the characters felt stiff.

1.5 for personal enjoyment, 3 overall because I know in a curmudgeonly old lady and it's not meant for my age range. Split the difference for Storygraph.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Bullying and Kidnapping

laurenevlyn's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The amount of times I was giggling and blushing throughout this book is actually insane. I thoroughly enjoyed An Enchantment of Ravens and had so much fun reading it. I definitely agree with my favorite booktuber, Caricanread, who says that this book is written like a fairytale. Truer words have never been spoken. The main part I enjoyed about this book was the romance. It was extremely fast-paced yet very believable and well done, which is a hard combination to achieve. Rook is the love of my life and Isobel made a wonderfully clever protagonist (and their chemistry is amazing as I said earlier)! All in all a wonderful book that I very much recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, and Animal death

littleflowerfairy's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Classism, and Torture

The adult/minor relationship is between a 17 year old human and an immortal fae, though there's no real maturity difference between them. The death of parents happens off page, mentioned a few times.

thatbookbitch's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Death, Vomit, and Death of parent

r3ader's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Blood

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Vomit