4.52k reviews for:

Malice

Heather Walter

3.93 AVERAGE

clelalia's review

4.5

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

courtell1998's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-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

mburrows's review

4.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

brittsinbooks's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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

srs_idk's review

3.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a good YA sapphic retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Interesting POV as it is focused on the villain. However, the story feels like it was rushed to just end as this is book one of a duology.

tnicmccauley's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

marbb_22's review

3.75

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

erica_booked's review

3.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really don’t know how I feel about this book. To me it was very wordy for nothing to happen until the last 10 ish chapters. I’m all for a dark, lesbian, fairytale retelling but the book did give off soft homophobia. Alyce was misjudged the entirety of the book, very cliche vibe of “you’re different than us so you must be bad!”. Everything was so painfully obvious on how it needed to be solved but played off like it was this shocking detail, when I knew almost right away. The trope of, oh she won’t remember you, made me over the book tbh. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

erush26's review

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

bookdragonenby's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed the drama of Malice. The fun world building and complex emotions that follow us made me all the more enthralled. Where I stopped my enjoyment was at the utter stupidity of the characters. They often acted in ways that make sense for a 20 year old, but ultimately was still dumb as shit. I am excited to see what happens next in Misrule. I enjoyed Walter's writing and found it fun, just not the love drunk childish leads.