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A review by crispycritter
Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver
3.0
Man I was super disappointed in this. Each book in the trilogy got progressively worse.
Rose was the LEAST COMPETENT killer I've ever read. The entire conflict of this book was Fionn having to (for some reason) clean up Rose's messes.
We skipped over all the emotional development of Fionn and Rose’s relationship to - what? - manufacture angst?? So many time jumps where we should have settled in and shown the work.
The timeline of this book rehashes a lot of B&B and L&L. Weaver didn’t do a good job providing context in this book, assuming readers remembered what had happened in past books.
The spice wasn’t spicin as I’d expect. A lot of it was honestly - gross? I kept thinking of how stinky Rose’s cast probably was while Fionn’s face was all up in her business. And I don’t care how well you wash off a butt plug, that was JUST IN HER BUTT DON’T PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH! The cotton candy was creative I guess?
Rose was the LEAST COMPETENT killer I've ever read. The entire conflict of this book was Fionn having to (for some reason) clean up Rose's messes.
We skipped over all the emotional development of Fionn and Rose’s relationship to - what? - manufacture angst?? So many time jumps where we should have settled in and shown the work.
The timeline of this book rehashes a lot of B&B and L&L. Weaver didn’t do a good job providing context in this book, assuming readers remembered what had happened in past books.
The spice wasn’t spicin as I’d expect. A lot of it was honestly - gross?
Also Weaver included an author’s note asking readers to please read the epilogues. Me: yes, we are in a literacy crisis and it’s super weird people just don’t read prologues and epilogues. Me at the first epilogue: the fuck is this epilogue
I swear this review is saltier than I actually feel. It was a fun, quick read. Just did not meet my (in fairness) very high expectations.