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When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker

334 reviews

escsmith's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

I found this difficult to get into at first. I think the author tried too hard to make this an entirely made up world but took it too far. Basic phrases like day and night were changed, and there were so many that at the beginning I was flipping back and forward to the glossary constantly.
Once I got used to it I like the story and the characters. I did anticipate what the twists were well ahead of time though. Also the family tree has some major spoilers in it.
I felt like the book felt unfinished, probably because I already knew had figured out what information it ended with.
There are so many unfinished plot lines in this that feel out of place.
Overall I did like the story but feel some things could have been done better.

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wisteriacrown's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

interesting world building, but overburdened by uninteresting, unlikable characters that never have growth— ALL movement is plot that furthers the mystery of fmc’s traumatic past

numerous characters’ perspectives are given but none of the work to make the reader care about these extraneous supports are given until later: their purpose is to advance plot and nothing else

personal gripe: mystery is not mysterious enough— i figured things out way too quickly

pacing is strange, so sexual conversation occurs at weird, inopportune times; fmc’s angst is “cured” by sex and she is only anchored to mmc because of sexual attraction

not really an “enemies-to-lovers” romantasy as advertised,

she’s his “dead” wife with amnesia so she’s already inherently not his enemy

the plot might be interesting enough to read the sequel, but the cast is personally very grating

i’m not emotionally sadistic enough to enjoy angst with no resolution so i might ultimately just be the wrong audience for this— therapy has me agonizing over the fmc’s choices rather than empathize with her

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breazy777's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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

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banbookbans's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense 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: Complicated

Loved as much as, if not more than ACOTAR. Can't wait for book 2 - what a cliffhanger. If you consider yourself a Nesta fan, get ready for Raeve! She is Nesta x10. Great world building, dark humor, yearning. This book left me devastated at times. Gut-wrenching.

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baz46's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

When the thesaurus was snatched.

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sallyern's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Read this and initially didn’t like it but bestie had me reread it. I do think I was super distracted the first time I read it and I couldn’t keep up with the storylines. Second time around I thoroughly enjoyed. I did have to go back and relisten to several parts when I got distracted. Super fun read.

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keelahope's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

DNF’d halfway. I love the worldbuilding and writing style, and I loved the first quarter of the book. But it was just a little too dark, and the plot was boring. The dragons hardly show up. It just was not the story I was expecting.

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