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clemslibrary 's review for:
Crown of Earth and Sky
by Emberly Ash
thank you to netgalley for sending me an arc of this book in return for an honest review!
i have … mixed feelings. The world itself is interesting and i liked learning about the fae and their powers. but that’s unfortunately about it :|
Veyka is an interesting character but was massively sexualised, as in her looks were what was talked about for a solid 85% of the book which did make me feel uncomfortable. I didn’t quite known what to expect going into this since it does have some darker themes, but the constant sexualisation just made it less enjoyable and genuinely uncomfortable at times. something will be going on and yet all Arran will talk about is her curves or boobs etc. I also didn’t like the very typical younger impressionable girl dating a 300 year old dude - i thought we were past this. Yes Veyka is 25 but for me this was still quite iffy.
I didn’t like Arran. I thought he was rude and so dismissive of Veyka, she lost her brother in a brutal attack and is forced to rule, and at the beginning all he does is fault her and state what’s wrong with her and how he considers her pathetic. Their relationship itself wasn’t great for me either, with nowhere near enough character development for the way their relationship is at the end. Only redeeming part about Arran is his beast, but even then we could have had so much more on him and his magic.
I liked the guards, but again feel like they could have had so much more depth and real personality. They all have backgrounds that could have been talked about so much more, as well as their actual friendships.
A lot of the book felt very surface level, including the sex scenes. Which for me, were not particularly well written and didn’t actually add much to the story and plot itself. There were also some sec scenes that were just ridiculous, i know this is a fantasy book but i was reading them and cringing
This book was fine - quite surface level and playing into some tropes and conventions that i didn’t like and i found myself slogging through certain scenes to get to better moments
i have … mixed feelings. The world itself is interesting and i liked learning about the fae and their powers. but that’s unfortunately about it :|
Veyka is an interesting character but was massively sexualised, as in her looks were what was talked about for a solid 85% of the book which did make me feel uncomfortable. I didn’t quite known what to expect going into this since it does have some darker themes, but the constant sexualisation just made it less enjoyable and genuinely uncomfortable at times. something will be going on and yet all Arran will talk about is her curves or boobs etc. I also didn’t like the very typical younger impressionable girl dating a 300 year old dude - i thought we were past this. Yes Veyka is 25 but for me this was still quite iffy.
I didn’t like Arran. I thought he was rude and so dismissive of Veyka, she lost her brother in a brutal attack and is forced to rule, and at the beginning all he does is fault her and state what’s wrong with her and how he considers her pathetic. Their relationship itself wasn’t great for me either, with nowhere near enough character development for the way their relationship is at the end. Only redeeming part about Arran is his beast, but even then we could have had so much more on him and his magic.
I liked the guards, but again feel like they could have had so much more depth and real personality. They all have backgrounds that could have been talked about so much more, as well as their actual friendships.
A lot of the book felt very surface level, including the sex scenes. Which for me, were not particularly well written and didn’t actually add much to the story and plot itself. There were also some sec scenes that were just ridiculous, i know this is a fantasy book but i was reading them and cringing
This book was fine - quite surface level and playing into some tropes and conventions that i didn’t like and i found myself slogging through certain scenes to get to better moments