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maimona's review against another edition
5.0
I have just finished the book and it becomes my new fav book.
It has not been a long time since I have finished reading "Eleanor and Park" and can't deny that I was afraid that this book will be boring because everyone said that it's so different from "Eleanor and Park", but honestly I couldn't put the book after I got into it, the storyline is amazing: magic, vampires, love and betrayal, friendship, foe or ally, everything is there, that it doesn't even make a sense anymore.
Got to discover a lot of new things in the depths of the story only at the end, and it only made me more excited.
In conclusion, I fill in love with the book, and I think I will go to read another "RAINBOW ROWELL" book, guess I have become a new fan of her :)
by the way at the beginning I couldn't stop comparing it with Harry Potter serious (I am my self a hardcore hp fan), the two stories at the end are really different; let's be honest if there is magical school, a chosen boy, principal with a twisted personality, evil and peace who wouldn't think of Hp??
*** A must-read for fantasy, vampires and magic world fans
It has not been a long time since I have finished reading "Eleanor and Park" and can't deny that I was afraid that this book will be boring because everyone said that it's so different from "Eleanor and Park", but honestly I couldn't put the book after I got into it, the storyline is amazing: magic, vampires, love and betrayal, friendship, foe or ally, everything is there, that it doesn't even make a sense anymore.
Got to discover a lot of new things in the depths of the story only at the end, and it only made me more excited.
In conclusion, I fill in love with the book, and I think I will go to read another "RAINBOW ROWELL" book, guess I have become a new fan of her :)
by the way at the beginning I couldn't stop comparing it with Harry Potter serious (I am my self a hardcore hp fan), the two stories at the end are really different; let's be honest if there is magical school, a chosen boy, principal with a twisted personality, evil and peace who wouldn't think of Hp??
*** A must-read for fantasy, vampires and magic world fans
hi_its_winter's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
hellabora's review against another edition
5.0
This book was amazing. Drop what you’re doing and read it now. Another Rainbow Rowell knockout.
hey_hail's review against another edition
3.0
I had a very hard time with this book. I kept putting it down and picking it back up and getting frustrated. It sounded SO MUCH like a knock off Harry Potter and it was SO slow moving. It took forever to get anything going, the first I would say third of this book is just building the world and relationships, while also not really giving you anything. I don't know if you're required to read Fangirl before this (I did not, still haven't) to get the feel of the main two and know what's sort of going on, because It feels like the book expects you to know everything out right and I was so so so lost. It was one of those books though that I wanted to keep reading even though I dreaded picking up the book, just because everyone was saying good things about it. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it. I would certainly not recommend it to anyone I know and I won't re-read it. I will reluctantly read the sequel because I am a completest and I cannot help it.
agoo's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Caused my breakup to actualise ‘cause it started a heated argument but I liked the book a lot!
My only points of criticism when I read it was that the story is kind of flat until Baz comes in and that the spells were a little too goofy.
Otherwise the developments of romance were good and the ending was satisfying (gonna pretend the second book doesn’t exist).
My only points of criticism when I read it was that the story is kind of flat until Baz comes in and that the spells were a little too goofy.
Otherwise the developments of romance were good and the ending was satisfying (gonna pretend the second book doesn’t exist).
suzanna_gg's review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Cons
- rushed conclusion but weirdly extended epilogue (esp because there are two more books)
- we did not need 12 povs (not exaggerating)! It feels sooo lazy when you just swap and there’s no mystery to what ANY character who has more than three lines of dialogue is thinking
- wish they had gotten to prance around the magic school more
- the spells have got to be some of the laziest or cheesiest thing ever written and I can’t decide which
- dognapping
Pros
- permanent consequences of magic
- gay people
- numpties
- kidnapping
c_ab_bage's review against another edition
5.0
it’s a high quality drarry fic and i’m not complaining-
revriah's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0