1.95k reviews for:

Curious Tides

Pascale Lacelle

3.84 AVERAGE

mcguiremag3's review against another edition

2.75

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

stephanie1210's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

stephi_the_great's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bibliotequeish's review

2.0

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Eight students from Aldryn College- School of Lunar Magics, perished in the Dovermere sea caves. One survived.
Emory, the surviving student, has been left with confusing and dangerous powers.
Enlisting the help of her best friend's brother, Emory tries to navigate her new found abilities, while making shocking discoveries about her school, and herself.

This was going to be it.
This book has everything I love.
Dark academia
Magical abilities
Power hungry villains
A splash of romance

I was so excited, and then I wasn't.
It took me over a month to read this.
And while that may not sound like a lot. If I was enjoying this, I would have finished it in a few days.
This just was not what I wanted.

megxns's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book is far from the worst thing i’ve ever read but it just didn’t really work for me. you can tell the author did a LOT of work with the worldbuilding but unfortunately the execution fell flat—many aspects of the world felt over-explained or annoyingly repetitive but yet i still didn’t have a good grasp on the limits of the character’s magics. the characters themselves also came off as way more “tell” than “show”, and i didn’t get attached to any of them. i think chopping 100 pages would’ve been helpful to tighten up some of the character development and pacing that was lacking 

sisterhimbo's review

4.0

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this book is so fucking good that i gladly sat through 500 pages of 19 year olds making bad life choices

ellanettie's review

2.0

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pretty magic system with a lot of potential and i liked kai. everything else was tedious af and i was annoyed

propheticfire's review

5.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

pinecone47's review

3.75

slow-paced

sweetdi's review

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced