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A review by oxshilo
The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
DNF at a little under 50%, and it was only that far because it was the only book I had on my iPad and I had no wifi to buy a different one.
I'm so disappointed; I was supposed to love this series. Everyone else in the world loved this series, why didn't I?! I know the writer is great and even the story is interesting, but the 'love story' was just... cringe worthy for me. I never liked Kestrel, and while I didn't dislike Arin, he never did anything to make me like him, either. It was too much back and forth 'I love you', 'wait no I'm disgusted with you', maybe even too much internal monologue from both of them, if that makes any sense at all. I feel like it was repetitive and both this book and book 2 could have been a lot shorter because the same thing kept happening over and over.
One of the last straws for me was, like how cliche can you be? I knew I had to stop reading and just put the series to bed when I looked down, saw '19 pages left in chapter', and genuinely felt like I wanted to cry because that was just so much to read.
I'm so disappointed; I was supposed to love this series. Everyone else in the world loved this series, why didn't I?! I know the writer is great and even the story is interesting, but the 'love story' was just... cringe worthy for me. I never liked Kestrel, and while I didn't dislike Arin, he never did anything to make me like him, either. It was too much back and forth 'I love you', 'wait no I'm disgusted with you', maybe even too much internal monologue from both of them, if that makes any sense at all. I feel like it was repetitive and both this book and book 2 could have been a lot shorter because the same thing kept happening over and over.
One of the last straws for me was