Reviews

El Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

mossymichelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

prairieraven's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

denisnovakova's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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? Yes

3.5

admiralkitwen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

While this is one of the lowest book ratings I have given, it was not a terribly bad read. I do not understand all of the history that falls into a story like this and at many time throughout the book, the writing was choppy and I felt myself rereading pages multiple times. All in all though it was a cute story, and I loved how each ending of the characters were included.

bookscorpion's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

foxyreadings's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

dori97's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

mmihevc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

angelune's review against another edition

4.0

4.25/5 stars

i feel like the pacing of this book was a little off in that it was really hard to see where the plot was going till like a solid 40% of the way through.

also you can kind of tell that, at some point, leigh considered making it a series because of some hints of expansion riddled throughout the pages, but i also like that it ended up being a stand-alone, as i think the ending was perfect.

one thing that i do wish we got more of and i would have changed, are the moments between luzia and santángel that we were not able to see, we were just told about them. like the whole concept of their lessons and them bonding during those moments, i wish that actually happened in front of us, on the page, instead of just being given crumbs and 2 lines about them?

otherwise i did really like this book. one forte was valentina. such an interesting and complex character. i only wish that she had given hualit the same treatment. alas....

also, you cannot tell me that ending was not leigh's attempt at rewriting what could have been in ruin and rising!!!!!!

kdietmeier's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.5