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This Woven Kingdom

Tahereh Mafi

3.94 AVERAGE

adventurous 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: N/A

This book is great and has some of the best romantic banter I've read.

myra104's review

3.5
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes

I’ve never been happier to have the second book in a series in my life!

Dnf

pinksa's review

4.25
funny mysterious tense
adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Complicated
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firecatviolet's review

3.5
mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I really liked the beginning of the book, there was strong intrigue and an interesting hook to tie the male and female leads together. 

About 2/3rds of the way through the book, however, I grew tired of no one answering anything. All the characters just bickered, never giving straight answers, and not even the narration gave the entire story all at once, just little crumbs about basic information. It's one thing to have a mystery, it's another to withhold basic information that the female MC knows about herself for the sake of "suspense". It wound up killing all suspense for me and feeling like I was reading Dragon Ball.

I think dancing around the the answers, even in the narration, left the narration feeling redundant. There are 4+ incinstance where Asileh's ice blood is brought up and half explained. There are 3+ instances where Kamran complains about silk being scratchy. Sure, it emphasized its importance (maybe), but I only found myself skipping paragraphs only to find that the narration was still rehashing info I'd already read.

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amberesther's review

3.0
adventurous challenging slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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gigimbr's review

4.0
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated