A review by katjaaaaaa
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

4.0

3,5/5 stars. I adore Leigh Bardugo and her writing style, how it carries away in the magical world. I also adore her, again, big accent on the characters, especially the female protagonists. Every character felt alive, cruel, reckless, stupid at times but so human I enjoyed following their journey. The idea to make the setting
more historical was an interesting choice but I like how it added some “classic” flavor to the story making it feel like an old fairy tail, especially combined with nicely integrated old English dialogues and magic that made
absolutely
no
sense

oh my god the magic system literally does not exist in this world and every time the MC does something extraordinary it just never get explained,,,,, the whole ending basically happened based on “magic goes brrrr” i really REALLY got annoyed at how overpowered MC was

oh and the whole romance line kept hinting on being a slow burn during the first half of a book and then hit me in the guts with the most rushed and unnecessary sex scene ever why Leigh I know you can write slow burn whyyyy

Nonetheless, an amazing book, I would love to see more one-shots from LB like this

Teoda babe please call me I’m free this evening xx