A review by the_jesus_fandom
The Flawed Princess by Alice Ivinya

2.75

 For being titled “The Flawed Princess”, the book has a distinct lack of flaws for its main character. Her only two flaws are being crippled and hotheaded. But obviously we get the typical plot of the girl being insecure and afraid of not being “worthy” of the male lead (Like, my goodness, we get it. You hate yourself.) 

And then at the end she decides to

not have her leg healed because then she wouldn’t be herself anymore… idk man I feel like there’s a difference between realising your physical flaws don’t make you worth any less than anybody else and actually refusing to be healed of something that is genuinely a burden in everyday life.

 

The male lead does admit some of his faults at the end, but most of the time he gets away scott free. There’s this whole drama about him

killing her father and uncle. But that’s not the biggest issue. I get why he had to mete out justice. You know what’s never addressed? The fact that he didn’t allow her to see her father and uncle one last time before killing them. That was the real issue.

 

What I did like was the tables turning of her being the powerful and capable one at the end and everyone else needing her help. 

Minor quabble: there were a bunch of grammar issues (its/it’s, to/too) 

The twist in tone??? Very startling.

Fern dies and there’s earth + BLOOD goblins? Genuinely horrifying and kinda cool.

I just didn’t see it coming since up til then the amount of gore and violence had been pretty tame.