A review by rhensie
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Edit: put down to a 3 because if Unseelie deserved 4, then this doesn't deserve to be anywhere near it

Ehhhhhhhh… The first half of this book was bad. Nothing relevant happened. Yeah, the battle at the end was cool, so that probably gives it its 3.5 instead of 2.5. But the craft, the plot, the pacing, and at times the writing, were all off. There were a bunch of punctuation mistakes in the ebook that took me right out of the story. Leonie felt like diversity points. I love Theo (and she’s named after one of my favourite characters!), but we don’t see enough of what she is actually like. At times, I hated the way the book did it’s representation.
Talking about goth girl cutters, whining about how hard it is for cos people to use correct pronouns, calling Theo a him over and over again even by the characters who weren’t meant to be the TERFs.
The idea is great but the execution was not it for me. Idk if I’ll read the sequel, this ends
on a cliffhanger that feels shoe-horned in for the sake of having a cliffhanger
and I’m not a big fan of that. 
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