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A review by starcrossed_pages
Celestial Banquet by Roselle Lim
2.5
Thanks to NetGalley, Dreamscape Select, and Sweet July Books for providing an ARC of The Celestial Banquet audiobook by Roselle Lim and narrated by Natalie Naudus.
2.5/5 ⭐️ rounded up only for nosy drunk god who is too invested in the love triangle.
Tropes
• Love Triangle
• So Much Love Triangle
• Top Chef type cooking challenges
• Gods & Immortals
• Beginning/End of chapter world-building snippits
I think it is time for me to accept... I have outgrown YA books 😔 This could not be more YA love triangle if it TRIED, but at least it seemed self aware about that... sometimes...
But seriously, the girl you like is cooking with explosive chicken and you think now is the time to go "so what are we?". DUDE, read the room!!
The Celestial Banquet itself is just background for love triangle "oh my gosh who will she pick" time. We have broke ordinary girl who cooks (but is also not even an adult and DEFINITELY not an established chef with decades of experience, and yet you want me to believe she is soOooO amazing at cooking that she is going to compete to be the best chef?), broke farmer boy that is her childhood best friend (cough cough, Gale), and noble boy that is very nice and loving (cough cough, Peeta).
The stakes were not high at all. Death is only for unimportant background characters, so much so that one character dies, is brought back to life (no one questions this?), then SHOULD die a second time. Like what.
Imagine going through something claiming it is for the greater good of saving your people from an invading empire, then seeing what the cost is (knowing fully going into this what is at stake!!!) and then suddenly getting on your high horse about how "the price is too high"... Then immediately back-peddling and taking the prize anyway.
This was just a disappointment. Only plus for me was that the narrator actually sang in one part and DAMN that was kind of impressive!!
2.5/5 ⭐️ rounded up only for nosy drunk god who is too invested in the love triangle.
Tropes
• Love Triangle
• So Much Love Triangle
• Top Chef type cooking challenges
• Gods & Immortals
• Beginning/End of chapter world-building snippits
I think it is time for me to accept... I have outgrown YA books 😔 This could not be more YA love triangle if it TRIED, but at least it seemed self aware about that... sometimes...
But seriously, the girl you like is cooking with explosive chicken and you think now is the time to go "so what are we?". DUDE, read the room!!
The Celestial Banquet itself is just background for love triangle "oh my gosh who will she pick" time. We have broke ordinary girl who cooks (but is also not even an adult and DEFINITELY not an established chef with decades of experience, and yet you want me to believe she is soOooO amazing at cooking that she is going to compete to be the best chef?), broke farmer boy that is her childhood best friend (cough cough, Gale), and noble boy that is very nice and loving (cough cough, Peeta).
The stakes were not high at all. Death is only for unimportant background characters, so much so that one character dies, is brought back to life (no one questions this?), then SHOULD die a second time. Like what.
Imagine going through something claiming it is for the greater good of saving your people from an invading empire, then seeing what the cost is (knowing fully going into this what is at stake!!!) and then suddenly getting on your high horse about how "the price is too high"... Then immediately back-peddling and taking the prize anyway.
This was just a disappointment. Only plus for me was that the narrator actually sang in one part and DAMN that was kind of impressive!!