A review by fourhand13
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

medium-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Not too bad by any means, I felt engaged throughout and this was a pretty easy read.

I feel like a lot of people are jumping the gun to be like "thing bad so that means book bad >:(" with any of the iffy things depicted (e.g.
gender essentialism, prison and punishment system
etc.) and it's like this is only book 1. I have a good bit of faith that some of those things will be tackled in the following installments of the series, bit hard to deconstruct every systemic issue in 450 pages.

The dialogue comes across as quite cheesy and stereotypical at times and I do think the writing quality went down a touch towards the end with the action scenes but over all, not the worst read.

I beg the next person who has sex in this series uses lube


Aside from the openly noted content warnings I will say that if you have an aversion to animal death skip chapter 1 (niamh's first one) at least and possibly parts of chapter 21.

Also if you're susceptible to paranoia about having people read your thoughts, this might be a miss too cos there's a LOT of that.
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