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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

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therainbowshelf's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The gist 📚: Lei is taken from her village and made to serve as a concubine to the king as one of his Paper Girls. Her resolve to free herself of the situation solidifies when she falls in love. I enjoyed this book.

For readers looking for 💕: a vivid fantasy world, a harem genre story, political intrigue, fighting oppression, kick-ass Heroins, and queer romance.

My thoughts 💭 The world is vivid and reminded me of Daughter of Smoke and Bone because of the human/demon denizins of the world. There were prominent aspects I didn't enjoy, though. The climax also didn't quite feel earned, which really took away from the whole experience for me.

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mothie_girlie's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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

3.5

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lucyreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

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ghromidko's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

This book was honestly forgettable, it really let me down, most likely because it was overhyped. Though, I still was engaged in the story, I just have to remind myself that not every LGBTQ+ book is going to be a hit with me!

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charliebriggs96's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.0

This book was so immersive and enthralling that I was captured and transported in every page to beautiful settings, smells and textures that can only be felt by an author who is good at what they are doing. But the storyline to this book is what makes it a brilliant fantasy read!

I loved that this book is an open discussion about the harms that some traditions can do to women. Especially younger, possibly easier to manipulate girls who know no different, and never have had to. Lei’s character brings those questions, questions that show this negativity in traditions, to light, opening the eyes possibly to many. I loved this, although Lei herself is naive in certain topics, her fight and her drive is admirable to say the least.

Class is another discussion in this book that I feel is handled well, it isn’t too far away from current discussions in our world, albeit we don’t have a Bull/Demon King in ours. It’s still believable and relatable to me, something I feel is very hard to do in any book especially in a book with magic and humanoid creatures.

TW: this book does have a king who essentially SA’s women every year in the name of tradition, one is as young as 16. His age isn’t verified, but he’s at least nearly 30 I think. He also at one point rapes a character but it isn’t heavily described. He also openly beats these women to the point that they have shamans to heal them every time they ‘visit’ him.

Finally, the romance in this book is utterly pure and delightful although they have to hide it for their safety. They communicate well, and discuss things that I think leads to a healthy relationship. And it’s sapphic, what’s not to love!? Wren and Lei are my new OTP, I hope the second book fairs well for them. (Yes I am buying the second book ASAP).

Read this book, it’s so good. With a small shaky start this book blooms into a fantastic read.

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