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When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker

174 reviews

allyrosereadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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lindsaygp_reads's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I am a big fan of big beautiful poetic/lyrical language, so there was a lot in the writing that I was a huge fan of. The first quarter of the book feels VERY different from the rest of the story, where the beginning feels a lot more like a fantasy forward book with political intrigue and secrets, but as soon as Raeve leaves the city it pretty quickly switches over to a romance centered romantasy book, and while I loved the romance in this book the switch did feel a bit abrupt.

The relationship between Raeve and Kaan is delightful and toe curling— I love how he crawls for her but also pushes her, refuses to let her waste herself away and continue forgetting who she is, who they are to each other. Their intimate scenes together are steamy and playful that lean into need.

I loved Veya, she reminds me a lot of Jenny from Outlander and I really enjoyed her scenes. Her relationship with Kaan feels very relatable and real. The pain she carries from their father is crushing. The little time that she does spend with Raeve felt important and tender (like putting a bandaid on a fresh paper cut) and I really wish there was more!

I think that what keeps me from giving this a full 5 stars is that I wish we had the opportunity to understand Raeve better, earlier. **MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD**

I also really fucking hate getting a character who very vocally does not want children and then getting a surprise pregnancy or a forgotten child. As a child free person, I find it beyond annoying and borderline insulting. The only way I am justifying this in my head is that Raeve did not want children but Elowyn did, and based on the epilogue, she is perhaps more Other than she realizes. Also, it’s unclear to me if Kaan knew that she was pregnant when she left, so perhaps it is a surprise to them both, which I will have to sit with a while to know how I really feel about it.

The next book needs to be here immediately because I have so many questions about what is happening with Raeve and Elowyn, and if this Other is just another part of them both or something bigger.

The ending was both satisfying if a little jarring in terms of where we are in time and how Raeve/Other is getting around like this, and the political implications of torturing and killing Kaan’s bastard of a brother. Because in the chapter right before it’s all talk about keeping him alive and why she can’t tear out his throat, but then there she is immediately after.

My hopes for the next book are more consistency with the blend of fantasy and romance, but even still this book is probably my favorite of the year.

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cassandra226's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I loved the world building in this book. The story and discovering the lost past of the characters was wonderful. Cannot wait for the next book.

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idsah's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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arecordofki's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I've heard many complaints about this book that made me hesitant to start it, but tbh it's been the dragon fantasy I've been yearning for where for once there's a bond between rider and dragon. The world is so rich and intricately built and the premise of the relationship is quite unlike what I expected.

While yes, the story does drag towards the 70% mark, it isn't in too bad of a way, it feels like they're just making a small rest stop before revving up for the remaining stretch of the book. The plot twist did in fact, twist too! The only thing that irked me was

this push and pull between Kaan and Raeve, where he says I can tell you your past and she says no because she things bad things are better left unsaid. Which, fair I guess?? But also just get it over with 😭 mad that I didnt get to see Kaan for a good portion when they landed in the Burn but the side characters were nice to peek through!

I can't say I disliked it because I kept picking it up and wanting to explore even more and more of this world. I would 100% continue the series

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alexsian29's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

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sirpandacat's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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laurenlolson's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nukie19's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is a bit slow but full of lots of great world building. So glad that there is a follow on because the story really gets moving well into the book and there is lots still to unpack. Hoping we get more dragons in the next one as well!

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anitaforthewin's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional 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: Yes

This book was so solid! A lot of Romantasy tends to lose the plot or put it on the back burner in favor of the romance, but I really feel that this one didn’t. This was truly a high fantasy, though I feel like we could have reined it in a little — for example I always had to reframe sentences to understand the passage of time because the book uses dae/slumber for day and night (and uses terms like slumber-terror for nightmare) and cycle for a day(24hr period), rise for morning, phase for a year, etc. However, the world building and plot were great, though by the end it’s clear that this really was a book to set up the major players of the world. I’m guessing it’s going to be more far-reaching and way more political, especially given the last few chapters. I’m excited to see where the series goes. One thing that took me out a little though was just some weird phrasing the author does at times. I don’t have a specific example, but it gave me the feeling of authors who prescribe to the “said is dead” philosophy but instead of it being used for dialogue, it was for actions.

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