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719 reviews for:

The Rivaled Crown

Holly Renee

3.49 AVERAGE

challenging emotional tense 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
adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging hopeful fast-paced

I had loved the first two books in this series and found them to be fun, enjoyable reads, but this one was so different from the other two and I did not feel like it flowed very well. I found myself just pushing through to be done with it and see how the series ended.
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Well that was disappointing…
I feel like the author listened to the complaints about the first 2 books of this trilogy being too much romance. this trilogy was is a romantasy- a romance in a fantasy setting. This whole book was like “WAIT im a deep lore fantasy! I have so much back story and depth! Let me drop this random magic and give you no explanation!!! And there’s another one! PRETEND I MAKE SENSE!!” There was so much chaotic world and magic building in this book. It was nonlinear, messy and honestly nonsensical. I feel like this caused there to be so much back pedaling in the character development. They were flat and nothing they did make sense. Where was our dark, broody MMC? Where was our snarky, sassy, bad ass FMC? They were not in this book. Even the smut was lack luster and this author always has the best smut!!
I almost DNFed every day but I just kept pushing in hopes it would get better- definitely should have 
adventurous challenging sad tense slow-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
adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-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: No