A review by camryngray
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

adventurous challenging dark funny 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? Yes

4.0

This book did a really good job of making flawed characters incredibly lovable. It's so easy for a "bad" character to be hard to read and frustrating, but Harrow did an amazing job of making Opal so lovable. The structure of this book was interesting. While I didn't feel like it was twisting all over the place, it also didn't flow the way I was expecting. That wasn't bad though, I just seemed to struggle to guess how much was left or at what point in the story we were. I feel like that mirrored the point of the story a bit. The epilogue was a bit too much of a bow on top, although I'm glad the footnotes were finally explained. I wish we knew more about Jasper at the end though! Overall, I really solid book though.