A review by ayooo6767
A Crown of Bitter Orange by Laura Florand

4.0

3.5 Not as good as the other books in the series or most of Florand's other books, but still sweet and heartwarming. Malorie was good except for the fact that she never told Tristan she loved him, even at the end of the story. I guess they both know it, but still. She also mentions patriarchy a lot, which is good except it in no way enhances the plot, it's like Florand just wanted to throw some overt feminist language in the book. Furthermore, I don't know if it's just me noticing it in this book or not, but the excessive sentimentality over events that happened a close to century a ago and CONSTANTLY REPEATING her insecurities about it every couple pages became extremely tiresome. Still love Florand but I'm hoping for better with Lucien's story.