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A review by e_funk44
A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
5.0
"Death might be waiting, but I was going to be a queen. I would have my throne if I had to carve a path of blood and bone to get it back.
Death could wait."
A Crown of Wishes gets AAALL the stars. It was so freaking fantastic and magical.
I’m not going to lie, I was a little hesitant to start reading this because while I liked A Star-Touched Queen, I didn’t love it. Don’t get me wrong, ASTQ was beautifully written but it lost me in all the extra details and bored me at points. But if you couldn’t tell from the above statement then let me say it again, this book is pure magic and is definitely one of my all-time favorite reads. ** Side note, you don't need to read ASTQ before ACOW but I recommend it
I loved the concept/plot of the whole book. A magical tournament filled with life or death trials and the prize for passing these trials is a wish?! And then add in two strangers, one a fox prince the other a jewel, fated to work together or risk losing what they want most, their kingdoms? Yes please!
While the plot was fantastic, the characters were what really made the book. They were so fleshed out and REAL. Gauri was such a wonderful heroine. She is strong, determined, intelligent, doesn’t trust easily, and she guards her heart with both her daggers. But what made her so fantastic was when she allowed herself to open up bit by bit and be vulnerable. The person to bring this vulnerable side out in Gauri was Vikram. The cunning, charming, brilliant, hilarious, fun-loving, sassy, fox prince. Oh and did I mention he is handsome? Vikram and Gauri are magnetically pulled together and their chemistry jumps off the page. Their sassy banter were some of my favorite moments. They both had me swooning and I had to put down the book just so I could completely fangirl over them! They’re one of my favorite bookish couples.
“The Prince was staring at me strangely. No man had looked at me that way. Men had looked at me in admiration, in fear, in lust. They’d looked at me with disbelief at who I was. He looked at me with disbelief at who I could be.”
When talking about ACOW you can’t NOT talk about Roshani Chokshi’s writing. It is elegant, captivating, gorgeous, and enchanting. And even though this entire story was around magic and Otherworlds, Roshani gave a sense of realism to the story. I think this goes back to how realistic the characters were and I felt that maybe this wasn’t just a story, maybe in this did happen. After reading this book, there is no doubt that Roshani Chokshi is one of the best writers of this generation.
“But for the first time, I wanted to believe in the things that outlasted us: the stories that came to life in a child’s head, the fear of the dark, the hunger to live. Those were the footsteps that not even Time could discover and erase, because they lived far out of reach, in the song of blood coursing through veins and in the quiet threads that made up dreams. I wanted to hold the hope of those tales within me and follow it like a lure all the way back to myself.”
Death could wait."
A Crown of Wishes gets AAALL the stars. It was so freaking fantastic and magical.
I’m not going to lie, I was a little hesitant to start reading this because while I liked A Star-Touched Queen, I didn’t love it. Don’t get me wrong, ASTQ was beautifully written but it lost me in all the extra details and bored me at points. But if you couldn’t tell from the above statement then let me say it again, this book is pure magic and is definitely one of my all-time favorite reads. ** Side note, you don't need to read ASTQ before ACOW but I recommend it
I loved the concept/plot of the whole book. A magical tournament filled with life or death trials and the prize for passing these trials is a wish?! And then add in two strangers, one a fox prince the other a jewel, fated to work together or risk losing what they want most, their kingdoms? Yes please!
While the plot was fantastic, the characters were what really made the book. They were so fleshed out and REAL. Gauri was such a wonderful heroine. She is strong, determined, intelligent, doesn’t trust easily, and she guards her heart with both her daggers. But what made her so fantastic was when she allowed herself to open up bit by bit and be vulnerable. The person to bring this vulnerable side out in Gauri was Vikram. The cunning, charming, brilliant, hilarious, fun-loving, sassy, fox prince. Oh and did I mention he is handsome? Vikram and Gauri are magnetically pulled together and their chemistry jumps off the page. Their sassy banter were some of my favorite moments. They both had me swooning and I had to put down the book just so I could completely fangirl over them! They’re one of my favorite bookish couples.
“The Prince was staring at me strangely. No man had looked at me that way. Men had looked at me in admiration, in fear, in lust. They’d looked at me with disbelief at who I was. He looked at me with disbelief at who I could be.”
When talking about ACOW you can’t NOT talk about Roshani Chokshi’s writing. It is elegant, captivating, gorgeous, and enchanting. And even though this entire story was around magic and Otherworlds, Roshani gave a sense of realism to the story. I think this goes back to how realistic the characters were and I felt that maybe this wasn’t just a story, maybe in this did happen. After reading this book, there is no doubt that Roshani Chokshi is one of the best writers of this generation.
“But for the first time, I wanted to believe in the things that outlasted us: the stories that came to life in a child’s head, the fear of the dark, the hunger to live. Those were the footsteps that not even Time could discover and erase, because they lived far out of reach, in the song of blood coursing through veins and in the quiet threads that made up dreams. I wanted to hold the hope of those tales within me and follow it like a lure all the way back to myself.”