A review by rara2018
The Book of Gems by Fran Wilde

2.0

I really need to quit trying to read this series. There has yet to be a single one I truly enjoyed. Luckily, they’re short so it’s not too much of a burden, but still they are just not for me in the slightest. This one was generally boring and soooo frustrating especially with Dev’s complete refusal to believe a main plot point that was made immediately obvious the first time it appeared. As always, the characters made zero impact on me and you could’ve literally swapped them out with potatoes and it would have read the same in terms of emotional complexity. The gems are still a cool concept in theory, but I have yet to see it play out in a truly interesting fashion.