thejestess 's review for:

Direbound by Sable Sorensen

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I really wanted to like this book (I love mind bonded creatures! I love fantasy worlds! I love Pack as a concept! Found familyyyyy!!!) and maybe that is why I am so disappointed. There was so much potential here! And then instead of it being fun, I found myself frustrated at basically every authorial choice. I think I understand what they were trying to do, but the longer the story went the less I liked Meryn and the more I wished that if this story was the one they wanted to tell that it was from someone else's point of view. A book where

it turns out your king is evil?? And the girl you didn't like who didn't even want to be bonded is actually your queen?? After she basically spat on everything you wanted to be?? And now she wants you to follow her??? THAT would be a fun book