Reviews - Gifted & Talented

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Gifted & Talented

Olivie Blake

3.84 AVERAGE

jorimae's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wow! What a rollercoaster of emotions. It's like a fever dream but a long one. I love it, but I also hate it? I don't know; I like the language she used in the book. I've never read a book that is filled with vocabularies I've never heard of before. It's refreshing.

literateworld's review against another edition

3.0

dark 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

rosemwood's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

There are three pov's, Meredith, Authur, and Eilidh. It's told in third-person. The narrative voice, which is unknown, stays consistent across the chapters. It's more a literary presence than a person providing commentary and critique from a higher level. The writing was witty, sharp, and a clever narration. The characters were morally grey and unlikeable. the narration and tone were snarky and metafictional. The pacing was a slow build-up with not a lot of magical elements during the plot. The siblings were dysfunctional. The commentary between the characters took up more spaced than needed.

bmce01's review against another edition

3.5

emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kayleighroyston's review against another edition

3.0

"Every year on his birthday she wandered around for the day, bereft, like she was missing an organ- like he'd physically stolen one of her lungs."

"That he had come into my life when I was too weak to love him."

This book had a lot going on and a lot going for it. The characters were complex and had complicated relationships, the siblings all have minor magic but it isn't really focused on as much as I would have liked.
The writing style was clever but I think some of the story could have been sectioned down or this could have been a series but overall, a pretty enjoyable read about sibling chaos and dynamics and a bit of nepotism.