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A review by erica_booked
Malice by Heather Walter

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

3.0

I really don’t know how I feel about this book. To me it was very wordy for nothing to happen until the last 10 ish chapters. I’m all for a dark, lesbian, fairytale retelling but the book did give off soft homophobia. Alyce was misjudged the entirety of the book, very cliche vibe of “you’re different than us so you must be bad!”. Everything was so painfully obvious on how it needed to be solved but played off like it was this shocking detail, when I knew almost right away. The trope of, oh she won’t remember you, made me over the book tbh. 
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