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lmaonice 's review for:
Spellbook of the Lost and Found
by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
this was really disappointing. I have almost nothing good to say about it tbh
1. the writing was okay but not great, some sentences and particularly the dialogue were clunky
2. I didn't find the characters engaging
3. similarly, I didn't find the story engaging, the entire time this book just absolutely failed to grab my attention
4. I found Hazel and Olive's perspectives almost indistinguishable a lot of the time, a new chapter would start and we'd switch perspectives and I'd forget we'd switched perspectives EVERY TIME until some dialogue made it clear
5. I found the twists at the end got progressively more and more ridiculous, not in the sense of there being no basis for them, they'd clearly been planted (well, some of them), but just that the idea of them at all had me saying "oh come on? really?"
6. ew @ the accidental incest. I mean the characters didn't know Ivy was their sister but still uncomfy to find out that the girl both Rowan and Hazel had had feelings for, and Rowan had done more than kissing less than sex with was their sister
7. Ivy was such a non-character. She was important to the overall plot of the book but in almost every single group scene if you completely took her out you would not notice
8. some of the dialogue was really cringy, especially when it got preachy about social issues, it's not that I don't agree with what was said bc tbh I do, it was just so shoehorned in so it could appear 'woke'
9. I didn't care about either of the romances
I wanted to dnf this book, but by the time I realised I wanted to I'd already been reading it for a week and didn't want that week to count for nothing so I just decided to finish it.
*if you're wondering why I gave this two stars instead of one when I have nothing good to say about it it's because I give books one star when they make me royally pissed off about how bad they are, and this book didn't do that, I just don't think it's good
1. the writing was okay but not great, some sentences and particularly the dialogue were clunky
2. I didn't find the characters engaging
3. similarly, I didn't find the story engaging, the entire time this book just absolutely failed to grab my attention
4. I found Hazel and Olive's perspectives almost indistinguishable a lot of the time, a new chapter would start and we'd switch perspectives and I'd forget we'd switched perspectives EVERY TIME until some dialogue made it clear
5. I found the twists at the end got progressively more and more ridiculous, not in the sense of there being no basis for them, they'd clearly been planted (well, some of them), but just that the idea of them at all had me saying "oh come on? really?"
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7. Ivy was such a non-character. She was important to the overall plot of the book but in almost every single group scene if you completely took her out you would not notice
8. some of the dialogue was really cringy, especially when it got preachy about social issues, it's not that I don't agree with what was said bc tbh I do, it was just so shoehorned in so it could appear 'woke'
9. I didn't care about either of the romances
I wanted to dnf this book, but by the time I realised I wanted to I'd already been reading it for a week and didn't want that week to count for nothing so I just decided to finish it.
*if you're wondering why I gave this two stars instead of one when I have nothing good to say about it it's because I give books one star when they make me royally pissed off about how bad they are, and this book didn't do that, I just don't think it's good