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A review by bamamelereads
The North Wind by Alexandria Warwick
Did not finish book. Stopped at 63%.
DNF at 63%
I was promised a steamy enemies to lovers Beauty and the Beast retelling, and what I got was bland, boring, and irritating.
Wren is incredibly unlikeable. If you took the most annoying parts of Nesta and Feyre from ACOTAR and put them in one person, you'd get Wren. Her sister Ellora is 100% Elain. Boreas is bland. The plot is slow and plodding, and I'm honestly not sure I can find the point to it.
Also, something that has bugged me from the beginning....they are in a cold and desolate land where hardly anything grows. And yet EVERYONE HAS WINE! WHERE IS THE WINE COMING FROM? Even if Boreas has access to other places that can grow things, Wren makes it clear she didn't know those places existed. So where do the people in her town get wine?!
And by 63% in, there's been no real movement on the "to lovers" part, so the burn is just too slow.
Ugh so sorry, but many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the preview. All opinions are my own.
I was promised a steamy enemies to lovers Beauty and the Beast retelling, and what I got was bland, boring, and irritating.
Wren is incredibly unlikeable. If you took the most annoying parts of Nesta and Feyre from ACOTAR and put them in one person, you'd get Wren. Her sister Ellora is 100% Elain. Boreas is bland. The plot is slow and plodding, and I'm honestly not sure I can find the point to it.
Also, something that has bugged me from the beginning....they are in a cold and desolate land where hardly anything grows. And yet EVERYONE HAS WINE! WHERE IS THE WINE COMING FROM? Even if Boreas has access to other places that can grow things, Wren makes it clear she didn't know those places existed. So where do the people in her town get wine?!
And by 63% in, there's been no real movement on the "to lovers" part, so the burn is just too slow.
Ugh so sorry, but many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the preview. All opinions are my own.