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A review by abi_grace_5002
A Throne of Swans by Katharine Corr
2.0
3.5 starts - However, it could have been a 4.5 to 5 star book (and that is what I rated it until just over half way)!
Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed the book and it truly helped me to get out of my reading slump. However, there were some major aspects of the storyline that I feel pure hatred towards. And these unfortunately outweighed nearly all of the positives that this book offered.
SPOILERS AHEAD...
Why oh why did the characters have sex, straight after confessing their love!!??!?!?!??! Is it just me who thinks that this is ridiculously unrealistic and toxic? I personally like a love story to be well developed and not rushed. I love it when it takes the characters time to reach certain milestones in their relationships and the fact that the authors had this come straight after the main characters confessions was just a major turn off for me. I feel like it presented the main characters as immature through the excuses of being "unable to control their feelings for one another". I feel like this just paints the completely wrong picture for any person reading this. Also, I feel like the love interest was also quite really rude and belittling towards Aderyn at points and they never showed any love/feelings towards each other until BOOM they confessed their love kinda out of nowhere (bar the few times the female protagonist said she missed the dude).
Okay, now onto the other aspect of the book that I purely hated. So I understand that this "trope" (why this is even a trope I don't know) is popular with some people, but I think it is very strange and almost unhealthy. MAJOR SPOILER COMING.........
The bad guy is engaged to one person, confesses his love to another, but having an affair with his half-sister! Why did this even need to be included??? They could've had some other sort of "forbidden romance" trope, why did these characters have to be RELATED??!?!?!?!!! They did have to add the half-sibling aspect. One of the characters was already married, so why add this? Also, why does the main character have to marry her cousin? This is incest. Oh and the main characters (who became each others love interest) were distant relatives. So, that was another part of their relationship that I really did not love.
However, all that being said...
I liked most of the characters.
The book did have hooked me from the beginning.
I liked the world/world building that was shown.
And I thought that the writing style was good.
Despite those major aspects of the book that I hated, I wouldn't say don't read it as I did enjoy it overall and will be reading the second. I have a feeling I am going to enjoy the second one more. fingers crossed.
Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed the book and it truly helped me to get out of my reading slump. However, there were some major aspects of the storyline that I feel pure hatred towards. And these unfortunately outweighed nearly all of the positives that this book offered.
SPOILERS AHEAD...
Why oh why did the characters have sex, straight after confessing their love!!??!?!?!??! Is it just me who thinks that this is ridiculously unrealistic and toxic? I personally like a love story to be well developed and not rushed. I love it when it takes the characters time to reach certain milestones in their relationships and the fact that the authors had this come straight after the main characters confessions was just a major turn off for me. I feel like it presented the main characters as immature through the excuses of being "unable to control their feelings for one another". I feel like this just paints the completely wrong picture for any person reading this. Also, I feel like the love interest was also quite really rude and belittling towards Aderyn at points and they never showed any love/feelings towards each other until BOOM they confessed their love kinda out of nowhere (bar the few times the female protagonist said she missed the dude).
Okay, now onto the other aspect of the book that I purely hated. So I understand that this "trope" (why this is even a trope I don't know) is popular with some people, but I think it is very strange and almost unhealthy. MAJOR SPOILER COMING.........
The bad guy is engaged to one person, confesses his love to another, but having an affair with his half-sister! Why did this even need to be included??? They could've had some other sort of "forbidden romance" trope, why did these characters have to be RELATED??!?!?!?!!! They did have to add the half-sibling aspect. One of the characters was already married, so why add this? Also, why does the main character have to marry her cousin? This is incest. Oh and the main characters (who became each others love interest) were distant relatives. So, that was another part of their relationship that I really did not love.
However, all that being said...
I liked most of the characters.
The book did have hooked me from the beginning.
I liked the world/world building that was shown.
And I thought that the writing style was good.
Despite those major aspects of the book that I hated, I wouldn't say don't read it as I did enjoy it overall and will be reading the second. I have a feeling I am going to enjoy the second one more. fingers crossed.