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A review by allyriadayne
Lie by Natalia Jaster
3.0
3,5.
Basically a Pinocchio retelling with an enemies to friends to lovers to enemies again to lovers trope thrown in. The romance was pretty good, Natalia Jasper obviously knows and likes this trope, too. The plot was very thin and got resolved quickly at the 75% mark, that actually was what I liked from the past book but in this one it worked against the story. I wanted more action and ✨ magic ✨ but the author relied more heavily in the romance and the characters.
The story would have benefited from having only one pov, Aspen's (she was the one doing the actions and driving the plot) and not the other which basically only gave repetitive insight into Aire's thoughts. In another occasion would have been fine because hellooo a True Knight facing morally ambiguous decisions? grieving his dead wife while feeling Something for Aspen? but the character was so transparent that one kinda knew what was happening already. I still liked his character a lot, though, I'm a sucker for knights.
Basically a Pinocchio retelling with an enemies to friends to lovers to enemies again to lovers trope thrown in. The romance was pretty good, Natalia Jasper obviously knows and likes this trope, too. The plot was very thin and got resolved quickly at the 75% mark, that actually was what I liked from the past book but in this one it worked against the story. I wanted more action and ✨ magic ✨ but the author relied more heavily in the romance and the characters.
The story would have benefited from having only one pov, Aspen's (she was the one doing the actions and driving the plot) and not the other which basically only gave repetitive insight into Aire's thoughts. In another occasion would have been fine because hellooo a True Knight facing morally ambiguous decisions? grieving his dead wife while feeling Something for Aspen? but the character was so transparent that one kinda knew what was happening already. I still liked his character a lot, though, I'm a sucker for knights.