laura_anne_art 's review for:

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley

1.75

slow-paced

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Nope.
This book would be better if it were more queer, had no romance at all, and/or were shorter/moved faster.
As a kid I was obsessed with the blue sword, hated the hero and the crown, and adored beauty. I regularly reread beauty and consider it absolutely incredible and gorgeous. I haven't reread the blue sword in ages and now I'm worried to, and I stand by my hatred of the hero and the crown. After recently rereading beauty I was excited to read this and wanted to love it. And I did love the beginning.  But at a certain point I got bored and annoyed, and the story dragged so slowly and took me so long to finish. I almost dnf'ed this book so many times but I just wanted to finish it. Idk if it was worth it, I did not like the ending, it was too ridiculous for me.
Particularly when I realized that

the romance would be between such a young woman and such a much older man who knew her as a very young child, I really checked out.

I'm realizing that that's an issue I have with many of McKinley's books and now I'm a little sad about that.