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A review by tracey_stewart
Rogue's Pawn by Jeffe Kennedy
2.0
Received from Netgalley for review.
I wanted to like this. I liked the writing - clean and direct and intelligent. I liked the main character, Jennifer. I liked Darling and Starling and Blackbird and Larch. I liked the general idea, of the bargaining and quid pro quo and the system of magic.
But the book didn't, quite, hang together – I don't buy Jennifer's accidental transportation into fairyland, and the story as a whole didn't resolve believably in my eyes. And while I understood the arc of Jennifer's "training" and its necessity to the story as given, I hated the whole aspect of (someone's going to say it, so it might as well be me) Fifty Shades of Fae.
I wanted to like this. I liked the writing - clean and direct and intelligent. I liked the main character, Jennifer. I liked Darling and Starling and Blackbird and Larch. I liked the general idea, of the bargaining and quid pro quo and the system of magic.
But the book didn't, quite, hang together – I don't buy Jennifer's accidental transportation into fairyland, and the story as a whole didn't resolve believably in my eyes. And while I understood the arc of Jennifer's "training" and its necessity to the story as given, I hated the whole aspect of (someone's going to say it, so it might as well be me) Fifty Shades of Fae.