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The Wind Weaver by Julie Johnson
4.5

I have actually found myself in a Romantasy mood again. What perfect timing this beautiful book had to catch my attention in my local bookstore. First off as always...the cover??? Hello??? It's soo beautiful! It caught my eye immediately and I'm grateful it did because this was actually such a good read. I know I give 5☆ ratings easily but what can I say? I liked all the characters (actually I like Soren way too much imho), no one annoyed me much and they were all unique and made sense in their own way.
I knew Uther was gonna die at the end. I made sure to already cry preemptively when the idea popped into my head that he could, then cried again when he actually did.

The story made sense and felt unique enough to me. Although fae are done a bunch in romantasy I personally hadn't encountered this kind of direction with the fmc also being one before. Usually I feel like it's a human girl whisked away by the fae. On that note I have to say again that I really liked Rhya as a protagonist. I feel like she wasn't completely unreasonable in her stubbornness as I feel like romantasy fmcs can tend to be sometimes. 

I think I've kind of lost what I wanted to say. Overall I was very happy with this book and I truly enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to book 2! 

Edit: After letting this sit for a while I do have a few criticisms and am therefore lowering my rating a little. Beware of potential spoilers I'm not sure.

I still enjoyed this overall. However I do agree with some of the criticism others have made. First off; this really wasn't enemies to lovers. Scythe was being a rough ass in the beginning, yes, and she obviously (how would she) had no clue about him so to her he was an enemy, but they were never truly enemies imo. Not that I mind that personally, just the marketing of enemies to lovers is off. 
Also I do agree he was unnescessarily rough in the beginning. I wouldn't say it was quite abusive yet, though some dialogue may be questionable in the name of banter, but I felt like you could tell he wasn't very serious. Maybe it's just that that kind of talk is normal for me and never meant in a serious way so it doesn't read too badly for me. 
Overall he was fine, not nescessarily swoonworthy for me, though romantasy mmcs rarely are, simply because my type is usually different. 

All in all this was still fine, but I'd lower my rating to 4.5☆ for these points.