A review by booksandbops
A Court Bright and Broken by Amy Patrick

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

3.8 ⭐️ (I really wish GR let us do increment stars!)

Thank you to The Nerd Fam for gifting me a copy of the EARC for an honest review. I was enjoying this Cinderella twisted retelling and would’ve given 4 starts for the first half of the book. I liked the initial story building we were getting with the Elves and the Humans and liked the depth of our FMC & our MMC but it’s like about 60% or so into the book the book flips direction. As this is book 1 I am guessing this is intentional and setting up for book 2? The MMC starts doing all the things the FMC clearly has detailed what she dislikes about the dad and then the MMC goes and does similar things (maybe he’s not “the one”?!). I want to know about the powers the witches have!! . Then we are building up to an ending but I don’t know how to explain that it doesn’t so much feel like a cliffhanger but instead feels like the book just stopped? I was hoping it would end maybe on them running off and not right before. It was a bit jarring but I am very curious to see what the author does in book 2. 

For me this was a nice quick afternoon read and I’m ready for book 2!