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A review by agrimmreview
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
2.0
**spoiler alert** First thank you to NetGalley and Redhook Books for sending me an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
This review is full of spoilers
This book was well written and was full of potential but in the end fell a bit flat for me. Firstly, I honestly did not understand why Violet could not attend a normal school after Penelope knew about her. Once the cat was out of the bag why not let her have a normal childhood experience, they claim that's what they were trying to do for her but the whole situation made no sense to me. Violet herself was just barely tolerable as a main character. I was much more interested in Aleksander and hell even Caspian who is a complete side character.
Penelope was an excellent villain I could not stand her throughout the entire book. She was a selfish entitled being that seemed to think she was owed by every generation of the family for a deal she made with their ancestor, not to mention these people are her own descendants as well that she is sacrificing for her own power and immortality. Not to mention the other countless innocent children.
I hated the fact that Violets mom really did just up and save herself without one word to her family so they could be prepared and make a plan.
The ending to me was super unsatisfying with Violet and Aleksander, I could live with them not ending up together but everything was just so left open. I wanted to see what happened with Aleksander the doors, if he was able to reforge them and what came of doing so. It was all too vague.
This review is full of spoilers
This book was well written and was full of potential but in the end fell a bit flat for me. Firstly, I honestly did not understand why Violet could not attend a normal school after Penelope knew about her. Once the cat was out of the bag why not let her have a normal childhood experience, they claim that's what they were trying to do for her but the whole situation made no sense to me. Violet herself was just barely tolerable as a main character. I was much more interested in Aleksander and hell even Caspian who is a complete side character.
Penelope was an excellent villain I could not stand her throughout the entire book. She was a selfish entitled being that seemed to think she was owed by every generation of the family for a deal she made with their ancestor, not to mention these people are her own descendants as well that she is sacrificing for her own power and immortality. Not to mention the other countless innocent children.
I hated the fact that Violets mom really did just up and save herself without one word to her family so they could be prepared and make a plan.
The ending to me was super unsatisfying with Violet and Aleksander, I could live with them not ending up together but everything was just so left open. I wanted to see what happened with Aleksander the doors, if he was able to reforge them and what came of doing so. It was all too vague.