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A review by samanatha
Fantastical by Kristen Ashley
4.0
3.5/5
Light and easy breezy. This book while happy and fun lacked the depth of the previous novels. It would have always been hard to follow The Golden Dynasty, book #2 in this series. While I can appreciate that challenge, I was still disappointed. The characters were okay but I never felt like I connected with them. This superficiality made it feel like a filler book, which I detested wading through. Luckily the shortest book so far, it was not a brevity of frustration and irk.
The only piece that was outright bad to me was how Cora spoke. As someone who is pretty much the same age as Cora, I can truly say her language is atrocious. Grown women just do not walk around talking like 16 year olds. Once in a while, perhaps, and it's a cute joke, but all the time?! No. I just do not understand the point of her linguistic failings from a literary stance. Perhaps to further separate her from the Fantasy world? It seems unnecessary and often annoying.
The speech patterns may have contributed to my feeling that Cora is the least enjoyable so far of the Fantasyland heroines. Tor is also my least liked though I somewhat suspect my feelings toward him were due, again, to sensing there was more to him that we never got to see.
Could have been so much better, but it is what it is and I move on.
Note: It became painfully clear in this book how important it is to read this series in order, much confusion and many spoilers for those who read out of order.
Light and easy breezy. This book while happy and fun lacked the depth of the previous novels. It would have always been hard to follow The Golden Dynasty, book #2 in this series. While I can appreciate that challenge, I was still disappointed. The characters were okay but I never felt like I connected with them. This superficiality made it feel like a filler book, which I detested wading through. Luckily the shortest book so far, it was not a brevity of frustration and irk.
The only piece that was outright bad to me was how Cora spoke. As someone who is pretty much the same age as Cora, I can truly say her language is atrocious. Grown women just do not walk around talking like 16 year olds. Once in a while, perhaps, and it's a cute joke, but all the time?! No. I just do not understand the point of her linguistic failings from a literary stance. Perhaps to further separate her from the Fantasy world? It seems unnecessary and often annoying.
The speech patterns may have contributed to my feeling that Cora is the least enjoyable so far of the Fantasyland heroines. Tor is also my least liked though I somewhat suspect my feelings toward him were due, again, to sensing there was more to him that we never got to see.
Could have been so much better, but it is what it is and I move on.
Note: It became painfully clear in this book how important it is to read this series in order, much confusion and many spoilers for those who read out of order.