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A review by ameserole
Court of Swans by Melanie Dickerson
4.0
I have received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
It is all kinds of awkward that I'm just now diving into Court of Swans Trust me, it really truly is. Mostly because I got this back in October and I'm just reading it now. It's February. So, yeah, I definitely suck when it comes to reading eARCs sometimes but there are rare occasions that I can just sit and focus on them as well.
Exhibit A - today. For some reason it is definitely eARC day and I'm not ashamed one bit.
Back to the book though. In this, you will meet Delia. We are also getting to see the beautiful England in 1381. I've never been to England but I would be pretty excited to visit nowadays. I've only ever been out of the country twice - Canada and Paris.
Sooooooo I definitely need to travel once it's a-okay in the world again.
Again, back to the book. After meeting Delia, I came to the conclusion that she was a pretty sweet and cute girl. Not sure how she manages to like all seven of her brothers when I can't even get along with my two older siblings.. but the world is filled with mysterious people. I will say that the evil step-monster, I mean step-mother, was horrible. I absolutely hated her in the beginning and after her brothers were under arrest - well, I immediately thought of her.
Evil wench.
Luckily for them, Delia knows that they are being wrongly accused of whatever stupid blasphemy the king's men stated to her. I mean.. yeah it's totally and completely believable that the a 10 year old was plotting against the king or whatever.
TOTALLY. BELIEVABLE.
Then there's King Richard. For some reason, which seems pretty odd to me now, he was making me think of the movie 'Robin Hood'. The one with Russel Crowe. Yet, this character reminded me of Prince John from the movie who becomes King after his brother dies at battle. The reason why my brain went down this route.. well, they both ended up annoying me. Plus, they were both on this war path of killing people on a whim. Especially if they posed a threat.
Like Delia's 10 year old brother. Such a threat.
Honestly, so much happens in this book and I enjoyed every second of it. I enjoyed all the twists and turns throughout it because they kept me on my toes. Even the ending was surprisingly good and I wasn't expecting it to go that way at all.
In the end, I'm definitely intrigued to dive into the second book to see what is going to happen to Audrey.
It is all kinds of awkward that I'm just now diving into Court of Swans Trust me, it really truly is. Mostly because I got this back in October and I'm just reading it now. It's February. So, yeah, I definitely suck when it comes to reading eARCs sometimes but there are rare occasions that I can just sit and focus on them as well.
Exhibit A - today. For some reason it is definitely eARC day and I'm not ashamed one bit.
Back to the book though. In this, you will meet Delia. We are also getting to see the beautiful England in 1381. I've never been to England but I would be pretty excited to visit nowadays. I've only ever been out of the country twice - Canada and Paris.
Sooooooo I definitely need to travel once it's a-okay in the world again.
Again, back to the book. After meeting Delia, I came to the conclusion that she was a pretty sweet and cute girl. Not sure how she manages to like all seven of her brothers when I can't even get along with my two older siblings.. but the world is filled with mysterious people. I will say that the evil step-monster, I mean step-mother, was horrible. I absolutely hated her in the beginning and after her brothers were under arrest - well, I immediately thought of her.
Evil wench.
Luckily for them, Delia knows that they are being wrongly accused of whatever stupid blasphemy the king's men stated to her. I mean.. yeah it's totally and completely believable that the a 10 year old was plotting against the king or whatever.
TOTALLY. BELIEVABLE.
Then there's King Richard. For some reason, which seems pretty odd to me now, he was making me think of the movie 'Robin Hood'. The one with Russel Crowe. Yet, this character reminded me of Prince John from the movie who becomes King after his brother dies at battle. The reason why my brain went down this route.. well, they both ended up annoying me. Plus, they were both on this war path of killing people on a whim. Especially if they posed a threat.
Like Delia's 10 year old brother. Such a threat.
Honestly, so much happens in this book and I enjoyed every second of it. I enjoyed all the twists and turns throughout it because they kept me on my toes. Even the ending was surprisingly good and I wasn't expecting it to go that way at all.
In the end, I'm definitely intrigued to dive into the second book to see what is going to happen to Audrey.