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criticallyours 's review for:
My Beautiful Enemy
by Sherry Thomas
3.5 since I really enjoyed the prose even if the plot wasn't quite what I wished for.
This is a star-crossed lovers trope, separated by the Milky Way only to be reunited by a bridge of magpies sent by fate. They had crossed each other's paths through a mutual old friend, had met again and fell in love on the dusty road of Chinese Turmekistan (?), and reunite in England with an ocean of unspoken words and misunderstandings between them. Each had betrayed the other, and I delighted that Ying-ying had such a direct hand in it since many FMCs that I've read typically tread a more passive route and with less chronic results. We need more willful and daring FMCs; it feels like authors these days are afraid to write a story in which the FMC dares to be anything less than perfectly wholesome. But we need more dynamic and interesting FMCs to steer us into stories that are not safe remixes of tried and true classics which results in just more of the same blandness.
The story was quite enjoyable, but I felt that my suspension of disbelief was tested. Two spies on different sides is a wonderful trope, but both being masters in multiple languages, history, subterfuge, martial arts, AND having multiple points of contact throughout their childhoods and personal lives? But it was still an enjoyable story in the end.
This is a star-crossed lovers trope, separated by the Milky Way only to be reunited by a bridge of magpies sent by fate. They had crossed each other's paths through a mutual old friend, had met again and fell in love on the dusty road of Chinese Turmekistan (?), and reunite in England with an ocean of unspoken words and misunderstandings between them. Each had betrayed the other, and I delighted that Ying-ying had such a direct hand in it since many FMCs that I've read typically tread a more passive route and with less chronic results. We need more willful and daring FMCs; it feels like authors these days are afraid to write a story in which the FMC dares to be anything less than perfectly wholesome. But we need more dynamic and interesting FMCs to steer us into stories that are not safe remixes of tried and true classics which results in just more of the same blandness.
The story was quite enjoyable, but I felt that my suspension of disbelief was tested. Two spies on different sides is a wonderful trope, but both being masters in multiple languages, history, subterfuge, martial arts, AND having multiple points of contact throughout their childhoods and personal lives? But it was still an enjoyable story in the end.