bearowl 's review for:

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
2.0
adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Enemies want to sleep with each other too quickly, and loving like a jealous high schooler is too fashionable. The real reason this is a 2 though is that it’s yet another book that celebrates cruelty and violence as long as the “right” person is doing it. The writing quality isn’t terrible by any stretch though, although at times the characters seem pretty dense in ways that don’t feel realistic - but I sympathize with the difficulty of writing mysteries in fiction.