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A review by sonikas
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
3.0
So here's the thing: I should have really liked this book.
In fact, I was fully prepared to love this book. I liked Cruel Beauty, and I really liked Gilded Ashes, so when I started this book, I went into it with high expectations. And perhaps that was the problem. See I don't think that 3 stars counts as a bad review, in fact the reason that I gave it 3 stars is because I still really like Rosamund Hodge's writing and Crimson Bound isn't a bad book, even though it just didn't work for me.
Hodge tends to write her female characters as very conflicted, very raw people who are usually carrying the burden of some decision that has been made. In Cruel Beauty and Gilded Ashes, the characters were carrying the burden of decisions made for them, but in Crimson Bound, the consequences that the main character is dealing with are because of her own bad decision. That is probably the theme of the book, hard questions and even harder answers.
Because the main character's suffering is somewhat of her own doing, because she's a difficult character to read about, I found it hard to root for her. I found it hard to connect with the book. But I found it intriguing enough to read. Which is why I finished it.
I don't think it's a bad book at all, it just didn't work for me. Still Hodge's writing is good enough to push me till the end, and great enough that I'll definitely be looking out for her next book.
In fact, I was fully prepared to love this book. I liked Cruel Beauty, and I really liked Gilded Ashes, so when I started this book, I went into it with high expectations. And perhaps that was the problem. See I don't think that 3 stars counts as a bad review, in fact the reason that I gave it 3 stars is because I still really like Rosamund Hodge's writing and Crimson Bound isn't a bad book, even though it just didn't work for me.
Hodge tends to write her female characters as very conflicted, very raw people who are usually carrying the burden of some decision that has been made. In Cruel Beauty and Gilded Ashes, the characters were carrying the burden of decisions made for them, but in Crimson Bound, the consequences that the main character is dealing with are because of her own bad decision. That is probably the theme of the book, hard questions and even harder answers.
Because the main character's suffering is somewhat of her own doing, because she's a difficult character to read about, I found it hard to root for her. I found it hard to connect with the book. But I found it intriguing enough to read. Which is why I finished it.
I don't think it's a bad book at all, it just didn't work for me. Still Hodge's writing is good enough to push me till the end, and great enough that I'll definitely be looking out for her next book.