A review by starblossomstella
Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.

This main character is wholly unlikeable at the start. She's constantly whining, aggressive, and otherwise just mean spirited and haughty. Her magic might be mean too but the fact she's willing to take it out on everyone else as the focal point of the conflict and then not take responsibility is an instant no from me. There's not enough information to build any sort of sympathy with this character either. The final straw was her

defiantly stating to the council that she would rather choose pain than magic and then in a small number of pages willingly signing away her magic to her old friend, whom she dislikes because he went off and became a council member. Her inability to act with any rationality is off-putting.

And based off the other reviews here, I'm not missing much.