3.76 AVERAGE

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced
adventurous dark funny 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: No
adventurous emotional reflective 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: No
adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

2.5
where is the flavor?? kinda boring and predictable... My main issue is the relationship development (or the lack of)
adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I didn't enjoy this one as much as other books in this series. Uneven pacing. Heroine was frequently too stupid to live (TSTL). Main characters were bland.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-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

I liked the romance aspect of this, but I found the overall plot pretty slow and I was just waiting for something to finally happen. I was also expecting this to have a kind of conclusion for the whole series or something and it didn't? Like it was pretty much completely separate from the others in the series, whereas the others seemed to be building towards "saving magic" almost and so this fell flat as the final book in the series.
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Too lazy to write a whole review but this was just an meh-okay book. Mostly because the FMC annoyed me so much. I think this retelling is just not for me. Too bad because I was looking forward to reading (and liking) this!
adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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