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Thorn

Intisar Khanani

3.95 AVERAGE

stirlingluci's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

thedarkfields's review against another edition

4.0

A very pleasant and refreshing surprise after reading so many generic and fun-but-uninspired YA series recently. A standout.

The characters are great, the pacing is fairly good, and there were a lot of "twists"/developments I didn't expect but flowed extremely well (not forced in for drama). There were parts of the ending I wasn't crazy about, which is why not 5 stars, but that's more personal preference. I did appreciate the groundedness/reality of the entire book, even while dealing with magic and other fantasy elements.

..I also appreciated that the main characters didn't instantly love each other (not a fan of that trope at all).

prufrockcoat's review against another edition

5.0

It's been a while since a swallowed a book whole like I have this one--it's got the same magic to it that Naomi Novik's UPROOTED does. Fair or not, I tend to be pretty dubious of self-pubbed books, but this was truly polished to a mirror-shine, even the text design (which nobody thinks about!).