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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
4.0
It's weird. When I opened my Fairyloot and saw this book, the first thing I asked myself was why the hell this book had somehow escaped my radar. This book sounds and breathes me. This book seems written for me. How had I missed it? Where was all the promo? Why didn't all the promo reach me? Why did I need a bookbox to get this book to me? But well, it did reach me in the end and I couldn't wait to read it.
And this book was exactly what I had hoped it would be. It was in every way an amazing and mesmerizing fairytale with a very strong and powerful message at the very end. I don't wanna tell you too much about the plot, since there are quite a few surprises along the way, but I think the most important themes of this tale were forgiveness, acceptance and finding your own worth when no one else is telling you how remarkable you are.
What I found most interesting was the grayness of the characters. The line between good and bad was incredibly thin. A lot of characters did good things and bad things. They did bad things for good reasons or good things for bad reasons. It made the characters interesting, complicated and layered and it also made all the conflicts between the characters more interesting, because depending on who's point of view you favor you could root for a different outcome. It also means that the characters had a lot of growing to do and I'm glad we got to see that.
And then, last but not least, there was the world, all the different creatures and the mythology. I loved how the author included her inspiration in the back of the book, but I loved it even more how well all elements fitted and how it felt like this was the only way to make them work. Everything felt so vivid and everything was incredibly interesting. Something new was waiting around every corner and small things happening early in the book played bigger roles later. Every little detail, it was all coming back somehow.
I really enjoyed this read and I will now certainly read the other books by Bashardoust too!
And this book was exactly what I had hoped it would be. It was in every way an amazing and mesmerizing fairytale with a very strong and powerful message at the very end. I don't wanna tell you too much about the plot, since there are quite a few surprises along the way, but I think the most important themes of this tale were forgiveness, acceptance and finding your own worth when no one else is telling you how remarkable you are.
What I found most interesting was the grayness of the characters. The line between good and bad was incredibly thin. A lot of characters did good things and bad things. They did bad things for good reasons or good things for bad reasons. It made the characters interesting, complicated and layered and it also made all the conflicts between the characters more interesting, because depending on who's point of view you favor you could root for a different outcome. It also means that the characters had a lot of growing to do and I'm glad we got to see that.
And then, last but not least, there was the world, all the different creatures and the mythology. I loved how the author included her inspiration in the back of the book, but I loved it even more how well all elements fitted and how it felt like this was the only way to make them work. Everything felt so vivid and everything was incredibly interesting. Something new was waiting around every corner and small things happening early in the book played bigger roles later. Every little detail, it was all coming back somehow.
I really enjoyed this read and I will now certainly read the other books by Bashardoust too!