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A review by drridareads
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
3.0
I enjoyed buddy reading this book with Ahmed Ejaz
I think it's the first fairy tale retelling I read..
This book was a retelling of Red Riding Hood. But it's not really that similar I mean it could do fine as an original book I thought.
We follow Rachelle who is supposed to become the next woodwife and protect everyone from the evil of the Great Forest but she is not very careful and becomes bound to the that evil as she becomes bloodbound.
What I loved:
• The setting. It was magical and it had that fairytale feeling to it. It’s dark and grim. The imageries for the forest were breathtaking. All credit to her beautiful writing.
• How Rachelle was a survivor first and foremost. Even though she was haunted with her guilt, she admitted that to herself.
• Armand. I have a thing for people with silver hands maybe.
• The chemistry between Rachelle and Armand.
• Zisa and Tyr’s story. I devoured (:P) those parts. It was gloomy.
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What I did not love:
• I felt like most of the characters besides Armand were very one-dimensional. Our protagonist Rachelle had such potential but I feel like that wasn’t fully explored I mean we should’ve gotten to see more of monstrous side and basically just more of her. Erec who was one of main characters; did not exactly have much personality for most of the book, except that he teased her. Amelie and the King felt more like plot devices than actual characters.
• There was a whole chunk in the start where they looked for the DOOR; it was dragging on too much.
• The Devourer. Our main antagonist and sadly we don’t know much of him.
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After this review I'm going to be a bit inactive.
Overall I enjoyed this. 3.5 stars!
P.S guys what is with the ugly cover? :P
I think it's the first fairy tale retelling I read..
This book was a retelling of Red Riding Hood. But it's not really that similar I mean it could do fine as an original book I thought.
We follow Rachelle who is supposed to become the next woodwife and protect everyone from the evil of the Great Forest but she is not very careful and becomes bound to the that evil as she becomes bloodbound.
What I loved:
• The setting. It was magical and it had that fairytale feeling to it. It’s dark and grim. The imageries for the forest were breathtaking. All credit to her beautiful writing.
• How Rachelle was a survivor first and foremost. Even though she was haunted with her guilt, she admitted that to herself.
• Armand. I have a thing for people with silver hands maybe.
• The chemistry between Rachelle and Armand.
• Zisa and Tyr’s story. I devoured (:P) those parts. It was gloomy.
•
Spoiler
When we find out that Erec is the forestborn, I was so surprised even though now I see that there were hints, and he becomes more interesting specially with his love for Rachelle.What I did not love:
• I felt like most of the characters besides Armand were very one-dimensional. Our protagonist Rachelle had such potential but I feel like that wasn’t fully explored I mean we should’ve gotten to see more of monstrous side and basically just more of her. Erec who was one of main characters; did not exactly have much personality for most of the book, except that he teased her
Spoiler
he became interesting when we found it his mad obsessive love for Rachelle• There was a whole chunk in the start where they looked for the DOOR; it was dragging on too much.
• The Devourer. Our main antagonist and sadly we don’t know much of him.
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Spoiler
When Rachelle manages to put the Devourer it just seemed too easy, I don’t understand if that was the solution why didn’t Zisa think of it?After this review I'm going to be a bit inactive.
Overall I enjoyed this. 3.5 stars!
P.S guys what is with the ugly cover? :P