Review by jace_in_books - The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray

jace_in_books 's review for:

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I finished it in morning but I'm still processing how good it was!

It has everything you need in great book! Great character development, found family, coming of age, great plot line and plot twist. After long time i finally got book about PIRATES who were actually pirates not some sailors who tried to look like one.

My favorite character was PAPA, cuz he's the purest and most loving parent ever and i cried a lot when he passed...

Ophelia is ace and she struggle with self identity, she doesn't know where she bolongs and author did a great job in writing the helplessness when you're young adult and you're trying to fit in what ever it takes.

At first i didn't like Betsy i actually hated her, cuz even thought i could relate to her struggles i hated how she act towards Ophelia, like she (Ophelia) was the one who cases her the troubles/truma. But after papa passed she started to realize that, ophelia was never the problem and that made her character glow up so much. That at the end i totally love her and their sisters bond, but i also wished her happiness with Ravi.

I won't be specific about the plot bcs i don't want to spoil to much, but the description was so smooth that it made me feel like i was on the ship with them, although some were pretty fcked up how great was described the pain or visual of the action. For example tooth extraction by pirates. That was pretty wild and my jaw hurt like hell.

Only flaw of this book was Ravi's ans Betsy's love story, cuz that was instalove with trauma bond and even though it's believable and I'm happy for them, it was way to short and i would appreciate it if the first kiss was after they found Crays.

At the end i would love to say that it didn't felt like debut, in the best way possible, and i can highly recommend this book.

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