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A review by marie_22
The Crown of Oaths and Curses by J. Bree
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
I’m kind of conflicted about this.
It was an entertaining and intriguing story, I’ll admit, but at the same time I was bored a lot while reading. It started out a bit slow and continued that way, which at first didn’t bother me, I found it to be interesting enough to keep going. But there was a lot of inner monologue that got kind of repetitive after a while.
Now my real problem with this story though were the characters.
I literally hated every character except for Rooke, who’s a saint and I love her <3
This is a 700-page book (almost) in which she was treated horrifically from beginning to end, and at first this kind of made sense considering what’s going on in the story. However, Rooke never did anything that would justify this mistreatment, she proved herself to them over and over again and still nothing changed.
Why she continued to help them is honestly beyond me…
In my opinion, the author went way too hard on the enemies aspect of this story, there is no way they can turn this around in the sequels. You’ll never make me like any of these characters now after I had to suffer through this whole book, like they’re irredeemable.
Ironically, I’m still kind of interested in seeing the author try and change my mind in the next book, so I might continue…
It was an entertaining and intriguing story, I’ll admit, but at the same time I was bored a lot while reading. It started out a bit slow and continued that way, which at first didn’t bother me, I found it to be interesting enough to keep going. But there was a lot of inner monologue that got kind of repetitive after a while.
Now my real problem with this story though were the characters.
I literally hated every character except for Rooke, who’s a saint and I love her <3
This is a 700-page book (almost) in which she was treated horrifically from beginning to end, and at first this kind of made sense considering what’s going on in the story. However, Rooke never did anything that would justify this mistreatment, she proved herself to them over and over again and still nothing changed.
Why she continued to help them is honestly beyond me…
In my opinion, the author went way too hard on the enemies aspect of this story, there is no way they can turn this around in the sequels. You’ll never make me like any of these characters now after I had to suffer through this whole book, like they’re irredeemable.
Ironically, I’m still kind of interested in seeing the author try and change my mind in the next book, so I might continue…