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The Sylvan and the Sand by Sarah M. Cradit
5.0
◦ I've received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ◦
The book began very intriguingly with Yesenia trying to have a spicy moment with Erran when he destroyed everything with his feelings – which for me was pretty funny because Yesenia was pretty hot and bothered and then he started talking destroying her mood and that made me giggle.
The humor from between the pages was the perfect thing ever. I will not quote any of the funny things said in the book because you legit have to read it yourself. The language can be tricky because it reminded me of the Outlander type of language, the Scottish language if I’m not wrong – it was tricky, but not extremely hard to understand or read and I felt it added something more unique to the book. Each one of them was talking so nice and colloquially and here comes Yesenia with her language which in my head sounded a little bit rougher for a lady back then – which made her even more unique.
Yesenia as a character she’s strong, definitely beautiful, and doesn’t shy away from that but at the same time she knows the body is just a body and doesn’t “price” it as everyone else in the kingdom does with pretty dresses and all of that, she’s more on the boyish side and I loved she held her ground and always had something hiding in her sleeve that would’ve stun everyone.
Corin as a character at the beginning I hated him. I loathed him with all my life because he was the perfect puppy for his brother and father and I hated him for not standing his ground towards his abusers, but along the way I’ve learned that he had two sides of him. A good doer in front of his dad and brother who wouldn’t blink in the wrong direction, and a secret side of him that did way more good behind their backs. I cheered when he first stood up against his brother, I adored that moment. This time the growth of a character wasn’t focused on the female as usual, but on the guy – Corin grew up immensely through the story and it was just perfect.
There was something magical in the book mostly about Yesenia’s brother – Byrne, we got a story about him towards the end of the story that kind of made me feel a little bit creepy, but in general, the book doesn’t contain a magical system. It does contain sexy scenes which are pretty spicy but not spicy to end up being smutty but enough to make you all blush.
The book contains a couple of tropes that I’ve enjoyed a lot, forced marriage, forced proximity, enemies to lovers, and a new trope that I’ve not read previously – the surprising marriage. I thought I might not enjoy that trope but I actually did and it was really nicely made.
The plot twist, the bigger plot twist came towards the end of the book and it was just amazing. For me, the book has been a quick read and fast-paced and I legit didn’t realize when I ended up being 60% in it because it just flow so nicely.
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The book began very intriguingly with Yesenia trying to have a spicy moment with Erran when he destroyed everything with his feelings – which for me was pretty funny because Yesenia was pretty hot and bothered and then he started talking destroying her mood and that made me giggle.
The humor from between the pages was the perfect thing ever. I will not quote any of the funny things said in the book because you legit have to read it yourself. The language can be tricky because it reminded me of the Outlander type of language, the Scottish language if I’m not wrong – it was tricky, but not extremely hard to understand or read and I felt it added something more unique to the book. Each one of them was talking so nice and colloquially and here comes Yesenia with her language which in my head sounded a little bit rougher for a lady back then – which made her even more unique.
Yesenia as a character she’s strong, definitely beautiful, and doesn’t shy away from that but at the same time she knows the body is just a body and doesn’t “price” it as everyone else in the kingdom does with pretty dresses and all of that, she’s more on the boyish side and I loved she held her ground and always had something hiding in her sleeve that would’ve stun everyone.
Corin as a character at the beginning I hated him. I loathed him with all my life because he was the perfect puppy for his brother and father and I hated him for not standing his ground towards his abusers, but along the way I’ve learned that he had two sides of him. A good doer in front of his dad and brother who wouldn’t blink in the wrong direction, and a secret side of him that did way more good behind their backs. I cheered when he first stood up against his brother, I adored that moment. This time the growth of a character wasn’t focused on the female as usual, but on the guy – Corin grew up immensely through the story and it was just perfect.
There was something magical in the book mostly about Yesenia’s brother – Byrne, we got a story about him towards the end of the story that kind of made me feel a little bit creepy, but in general, the book doesn’t contain a magical system. It does contain sexy scenes which are pretty spicy but not spicy to end up being smutty but enough to make you all blush.
The book contains a couple of tropes that I’ve enjoyed a lot, forced marriage, forced proximity, enemies to lovers, and a new trope that I’ve not read previously – the surprising marriage. I thought I might not enjoy that trope but I actually did and it was really nicely made.
The plot twist, the bigger plot twist came towards the end of the book and it was just amazing. For me, the book has been a quick read and fast-paced and I legit didn’t realize when I ended up being 60% in it because it just flow so nicely.
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