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Nevermoor. Probele de admitere ale lui Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

28 reviews

potato456's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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maeverose's review against another edition

2.5

Disclaimer: I am very much an adult and not the target audience

I wanted to read this after hearing someone talk about the third book being a response to jk rowling’s bigotry, and from people calling it a non-problematic version of harry potter. I expected something better… it felt like hp fanfiction at times, and this first book at least had some minor bigotry of it’s own. Not as bad as the hp books but still…

Here were all the harry potter similarities I noticed:

Morrigan has an abusive family that doesn’t care about her
Said abusive family gifted her a terrible christmas present once
The over-the-top magical world vs the normie world
Jupiter reminded me a lot of dumbledore if he were young
The trials
Very ron-like best friend
Very draco-like antagonist
The Halloween and Christmas celebrations
villain who’s name scares people
Disfigured (slightly) villain
Villain who mysteriously disappeared due to being weakened by a fight
Villain who kindly waited until after the trials to make his move
Shadowy creatures coming after Morrigan (even once while they were stopped on a train…)

It has the ’bitchy preppy girl rival who hates the female mc for literally no reason’ trope. It has the withholding of information from the mc for no real reason trope. I’m not sure how I feel about the only two Black characters (one with the last name ‘Blackburn’) initially being bullies (also for no reason), even if they did both come around in the end. It was just an odd choice. And the whole ‘Jack faking a disability’ thing was also odd. It obviously was kind of resolved in the end but the whole ‘faking a disability’ idea is a bit questionable. A lot of actual disabled people get accused of faking their disability for one reason or another and that being in the book the way that it was just rubs me the wrong way. This is very very minor but at one point a character says ‘he or she’ instead of ‘they’ and that will never not be annoying to me. I’m also left feeling like the world wasn’t explained very well. It’s probably explained more in later books, but I feel like the first book should give you a decent idea of the world and I still have a lot of questions.

I was bored and mildly annoyed the whole book pretty much. I wanted to read it in full so I could form a full opinion on it in comparison to harry potter, but I don’t know if it’s worth it to continue in the series just for that. This might’ve put me in a reading slump.

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suspiciouspinecone's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny fast-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

I thought this cover looked stupid. I thought it looked childish and silly and dumb. I thought it would be poorly written with flat, uninteresting characters.

I will never--never--judge a book by it's cover, ever again.

I loved this book so much, it is now my favourite book. I devoured it, and if I had access to the rest of the series, I would devour them too, because I just love this so much. I love every character, I love every concept, I loved it all.

Shout-out to Anna for buying me this absolutely wonderful book. Never would've gotten around to reading otherwise.

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amaramorgenstern's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Eignet sich definitiv zum nochmals Hören. Die Sprecherin ist einfach perfekt. Ein richtiges Comfort Hörbuch. Das Buch ist allgemein super empfehlenswert. Die Geschichte ist super süß und vermittelt auch gute Werte. Für 10-14 Jährige am Besten

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anselm's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny 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

The start was a bit slow. But once you get through the first half it really gets going and is an engaging read. It has a lot of heart and defines found family.

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victoriousbookworm's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

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zozo_reads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

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genny's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted 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: No

The comparison to Harry Potter can't be helped - we've got an unloved 11-year-old protagonist who gets whisked away to a magical world where they discover their own abilities, a sense of belonging, and a mysterious connection to the big bad villain...but that's not to say that Nevermoor is unoriginal! In fact, I'm impressed by how unique the world is despite the mentioned tropes. I read a review that likened the setting to a cross between Hogwarts and Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, which is pretty spot on. It does feel a little too random at times (or maybe that's my age talking), so hopefully the world will feel more "cohesive" in the next books.

It only took a few pages for me to love Morrigan and want to adopt her, haha. That the Wundersmith was written as a larger than life villain, too large to be believable for Morrigan, more myth than man...

only for that to be completely subverted by the reveal of Mr. Jones and how he had orchestrated everything from the beginning...

very cool. The humor always hits, too! This was a delightful start to a series and I'm already diving into the sequel.

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lusandra's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious 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: Yes

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emily_mh's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny hopeful 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

UGH, PERFECTION. This has all the creativity and and whimsy of A Series of Unfortunate Events, without the author having been accused of sexual harassment. The world-building is so fun and imaginative and has a steampunk vibe to it. I didn't want it to end, and I cannot WAIT to borrow the next book from my library.

As a side note, I listened to the audiobook. Let me just say that Gemma Whelan does an ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL JOB!! It reminded me of audiobook CDs I used to borrow from the library and play on my bulky CD player to get to sleep when I was a kid. Definitely my favourite audiobook of the year so far.

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