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A review by hexgirl_
Court of Winter by Krista Street
1.0
I want to be transparent at the beginning here - I DNF’d about 43% of the way through the book. So around ~140ish pages I just couldn’t do it anymore.
The troupes that I got from what I read: enemies to lovers, a sort of hades/persephone dynamic possibly, naïve fmc, with perhaps a touch of forced proximity if you squint. Fated mates(educated guess)
I….hated this book. Really it’s on me, I’ve been consuming books like this for a long time and was hoping for something different from the norm. Went into a bakery hoping for bangin steak cause I was tired of the usual bread ya know? I’m the idiot who wanted a product that I should have known this book wouldn’t have produced. So I own that. That is on me.
However.
This book is going to be the one that gets my pent up feelings about this type of fantasy romance I suppose.
Can we please. Please. Please. Please. Please write intelligent female characters? Ones with just one iota of intellect to their name? A singular brain cell if you will?? I am so tired of the troupe that the fmc just doesn’t know better or that they can’t parse together the picture that’s right in front of them. That plot device can seriously take a reader out of book.
Or! Perhaps one who reacts to things normally??? Or at least in the realm of possibility? I realize that my conception of normal may be different than others but cmon! Example of what I mean here: it is stated multiple times that the male main character KILLED HER FAMILY. She only has a sister left. He KILLED the others. KILLED. And 20% into the story they are basically flirting. Though the female lead is somehow engaging in flirting without being aware it’s flirting cause remember the whole HE KILLED HER FAMILY bit. Oh and this scene happens after he also pretty much KIDNAPS HER FROM HER HOME. Ya know the one where her SINGULAR LIVING FAMILY MEMBER LIVES. But oooo he’s so sexy. Excuse me where’s the female rage???? Where’s the holding fast to your experiences and ideals!!!!!!! I just can’t.
‘But you said she doesn’t /know/ she’s flirting’ which imo is one of the most annoying plot devices I’ve seen come to life in books in the whole freaking world. At one point she internally reveals that she’s been with men before, which is confusing on other levels of the plot but that’s not the topic right now, so my point is SHE SHOULD KNOW AND BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS.
I just…I’m so annoyed. I loved the concept of the book. Family killer comes for main character and sweeps her off into the cruel world of noble fae. I was excited for tension. I was excited to see how in the world the female heroine forgives the male lead for such an atrocity(if she even can). But the whole ‘instant attraction so powerful I can’t control my own reactions and emotions’ thing is such a cliche and honestly such a huge disappointment.
The troupes that I got from what I read: enemies to lovers, a sort of hades/persephone dynamic possibly, naïve fmc, with perhaps a touch of forced proximity if you squint. Fated mates(educated guess)
I….hated this book. Really it’s on me, I’ve been consuming books like this for a long time and was hoping for something different from the norm. Went into a bakery hoping for bangin steak cause I was tired of the usual bread ya know? I’m the idiot who wanted a product that I should have known this book wouldn’t have produced. So I own that. That is on me.
However.
This book is going to be the one that gets my pent up feelings about this type of fantasy romance I suppose.
Can we please. Please. Please. Please. Please write intelligent female characters? Ones with just one iota of intellect to their name? A singular brain cell if you will?? I am so tired of the troupe that the fmc just doesn’t know better or that they can’t parse together the picture that’s right in front of them. That plot device can seriously take a reader out of book.
Or! Perhaps one who reacts to things normally??? Or at least in the realm of possibility? I realize that my conception of normal may be different than others but cmon! Example of what I mean here: it is stated multiple times that the male main character KILLED HER FAMILY. She only has a sister left. He KILLED the others. KILLED. And 20% into the story they are basically flirting. Though the female lead is somehow engaging in flirting without being aware it’s flirting cause remember the whole HE KILLED HER FAMILY bit. Oh and this scene happens after he also pretty much KIDNAPS HER FROM HER HOME. Ya know the one where her SINGULAR LIVING FAMILY MEMBER LIVES. But oooo he’s so sexy. Excuse me where’s the female rage???? Where’s the holding fast to your experiences and ideals!!!!!!! I just can’t.
‘But you said she doesn’t /know/ she’s flirting’ which imo is one of the most annoying plot devices I’ve seen come to life in books in the whole freaking world. At one point she internally reveals that she’s been with men before, which is confusing on other levels of the plot but that’s not the topic right now, so my point is SHE SHOULD KNOW AND BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS.
I just…I’m so annoyed. I loved the concept of the book. Family killer comes for main character and sweeps her off into the cruel world of noble fae. I was excited for tension. I was excited to see how in the world the female heroine forgives the male lead for such an atrocity(if she even can). But the whole ‘instant attraction so powerful I can’t control my own reactions and emotions’ thing is such a cliche and honestly such a huge disappointment.