A review by joblo
Weyward by Emilia Hart

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Read this one for a buddy read. Pretty good— the descriptions of nature were beautiful and it made me really want to move to a cottage in the English countryside and start planning my garden for this summer lol. It was cool to see the common motifs/symbols between each storyline, too— the bees and crows and stuff. 

I’m not a fan of stories that use “women are suffering” as the main plot point/storyline— I know, I get it, and I feel like there are a lot of ways to write equally powerful stories about women that don’t focus on misogyny/abuse. Also— I liked the characters and felt for everything they went through, but I felt like their actions were inconsistent at times. And again I would have loved to see more of their lives as people in their own right rather than the period of their lives that’s a direct response to the abuse they endured (even though I get it, overcoming the abuse was the point of the story). It’s just— I want to read stories about cool, powerful women where the core of the story isn’t “women have suffered for generations”
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