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bookedbymadeline's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
I’m not a huge fantasy reader but I loved Havenfall! It was a quick read with well developed characters. The world building was really well done-I liked the guide in the beginning plus the magic system and realms were slowly uncovered instead of info dumped at once like I’ve seen in other books.
It did take a little while to get into the book but once I did it was hard to put down! The plot twists kept me guessing and kept turning the story on its head. I never knew what to expect (with the exception of one twist)! Also, the cover is stunning 😍
I’m excited to check out book 2 and hope the romance/love triangle is a little more developed.
It did take a little while to get into the book but once I did it was hard to put down! The plot twists kept me guessing and kept turning the story on its head. I never knew what to expect (with the exception of one twist)! Also, the cover is stunning 😍
I’m excited to check out book 2 and hope the romance/love triangle is a little more developed.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Trafficking and Kidnapping
Minor: Confinement
lastsilversunset's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping
Moderate: Child death and Death
Minor: Blood and Violence
ceilidhwilliams's review against another edition
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? It's complicated
2.5
YA protagonists often get criticised for being stupid, but Maddie is by far the dumbest protagonist I’ve ever read, this book would be 200 pages shorter if she had even on ounce of intelligence.
The last ~50 pages made this some what redeeming.
The last ~50 pages made this some what redeeming.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Violence, Trafficking, and Grief
Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders
abutler's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Kidnapping and Murder
scorpioness's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
My biggest problem with this book is the native erasure. The inn that Maddies (I’m assuming white)family is in charge of is in the mountains of Colorado… and they’ve been there since like the beginning of time… yeah not adding up, unless Maddie has some unmentioned native ancestors (but then everyone from fiordenkill and byrn are white?). This is one of the things that was frustrating about the book, in addition to maddies character at times. Not frustrating in a way where you’re invested in the story that much, but just frustrating because it’s slightly annoying. The dialogue between taya and Maddie felt kind of forced at times, and I feel like I wanted their romance to be developed just a little bit more? Idk I feel like there’s a way to make the romance second priority and also develop it well.
Overall though, I enjoyed the atmosphere of it and the plot was better than some other books I’ve read, but the foreshadowing was sloppy at times.
Overall though, I enjoyed the atmosphere of it and the plot was better than some other books I’ve read, but the foreshadowing was sloppy at times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, and Trafficking
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Gore, and Violence
Minor: Bullying, Confinement, and Self harm
Native erasure and slight grooming as well Self harm page- 150 Body horror page-170sophiesmallhands's review
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I really loved the premise of this book: a secret inn hidden away that acts as a gateway to different worlds? A murder mystery with the politics of other worlds involved? A bisexual MC? I really wanted to love this book (and the cover had nothing to do with it at all…).
But what follows is a whole lot of hand-wringing and a lot of repetitive dialogue. Unfortunately, Maddie the main character, really started to frustrate me, and while I realise she has been thrust into a position of power during a delicate situation but I really wanted to shake her sometimes to grow a spine!
The final plot twist was a goodie (but admittedly there were some very obvious red herrings…) but this just felt like a fairly generic YA fantasy that could’ve been ground-breaking, but just…wasn’t…
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Kidnapping
gattolinos_nerdy_nook's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
I found this book to be fast paced for it's size and covers a lot of story in 320 pages.
There was some interesting characters and relationships which I forgot about before reading it again. I felt like I also enjoyed it more this time around at 3.75 instead of the 3.5 (so much of a difference I know), where I think I could appreciate what was resolved in the first book and what still needs to be resolved in the second.
The ending also leaves this open to have a couple of different scenes and potential scenarios, which I'm interested to see if they do happen or not.
I think my favourite characters are Taya and the Silver Prince, and probably for almost opposite reasons. Taya feels like a very rounded character and the more Maddie interacted with her the more I wanted to read and get to know her, as this is a shorter book and there is a lot happening, she isn't in it as much as I would like and doesn't have a huge amount of character development because of that.I'm not sure how much I'll get to see her in the sequel considering she is now in another world and it looks like the door sealed behind her. The Silver Prince on the other hand is very 2D in my opinion but I kind of liked that. We don't know anything about him other then he created the Oasis city in his world. Instead you are given "Charismatic Leader that seems to know more than letting on" which is just fun. Sometimes it is just fun to have characters that you don't have to overthink and you get what you are given.
This to me is very much a fun weekend read where you can sit down and read it in a day or two which is what I more or less this time around.
There was some interesting characters and relationships which I forgot about before reading it again. I felt like I also enjoyed it more this time around at 3.75 instead of the 3.5 (so much of a difference I know), where I think I could appreciate what was resolved in the first book and what still needs to be resolved in the second.
The ending also leaves this open to have a couple of different scenes and potential scenarios, which I'm interested to see if they do happen or not.
I think my favourite characters are Taya and the Silver Prince, and probably for almost opposite reasons. Taya feels like a very rounded character and the more Maddie interacted with her the more I wanted to read and get to know her, as this is a shorter book and there is a lot happening, she isn't in it as much as I would like and doesn't have a huge amount of character development because of that.
This to me is very much a fun weekend read where you can sit down and read it in a day or two which is what I more or less this time around.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Murder, and Kidnapping
halfwaytoaugust's review
adventurous
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, and Violence
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