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novelnerd_11's review
adventurous
hopeful
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Blood, and Suicide
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Death of parent, Violence, War, and Pregnancy
remy_licked_my_book's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-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? Yes
3.0
A retelling of The Queen and her Huntsman. This book was slow paced and felt a bit repetitive. Considering the main character, Sophia's name stands for wisdom, she was quite gullible. The Queen manages to attempt murder 3 times which was a bit unbelievable. I liked the morals shared throughout the story and I came to love Sophie in the end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and War
teaofleaves's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
The plot is underwhelming. Highly predictable. Boring. Very cliché in its message. Contains severely short chapters that I don't think work well for this book. I've read a book where this has worked well for it. The foreshadowing that led to something that would happen later in the plot was predictable. Instead of building tension and suspense, it was straight to the point with certain things that should have had it, which makes it just as underwhelming as the plot itself. I honestly considered DNFing the book. However, I'm normally not one for doing so as I think one can learn so much from a book that they don't like, and that one should challenge themselves as to why they aren't enjoying it. Thus, they become a better literary critic that way, in a sense. And honestly, it's not worth reading...it's just so underwhelming, predictable and boring that I wouldn't pick it up again personally. The only positive thing I can say is that I finished it, somehow. The writing was mediocre due to the plot and how, as a retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Snow White, it was written. If the author was trying to put some sort of feminist twist on this retelling, it was highly minimal as it was only seen predominantly in the beginning, and, even then, it wasn't enough to say that's actually the case.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Blood, Death, Suicide, and Murder
Minor: Death of parent, Gore, Animal cruelty, and War
lilacsophie's review against another edition
dark
inspiring
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent, War, Vomit, and Animal cruelty
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