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- Not going to lie, I found this book... frustrating lol. It had so much potential and it just fell a bit flat for me
- I really loved the start of the book! The beginning was so strong, and it really pulled you in and got you invested, but pretty much the minute she got to Kestrin's kingdom it just fell off the rails for me. Alyrra (aka Thorn) went from being this strong character to someone who was kind of selfish and just let bad things happen to people because she didn't want to have to be princess.
- There wasn't really much of a plot for the middle of the book, it was just an internal monologue/struggle of Thorn. She would be mad that bad things were happening and that royalty wasn't doing anything about it, but she was literally doing the same thing by not trying to become princess again.
- There was magic and mages in this world, and it comes up quite a bit in the beginning, but then nothing happens with it. It just kind of exists in the world but never really gets explained or used
- There were just a lot of things that were happening in the middle of the book that didn't actually add anything to the overall plot and just felt like fluff.
- Not going to lie, the ending REALLY annoyed me. It was set up to be so cool, and then the final confrontation is literally a conversation and then the villain never faces any consequences for what she's done and only her underlings are punished. And that was the end of the story. It just didn't give me any closure in the story and felt incredibly unfair to the underlings (who, even though they did bad things, were ultimately just pawns of the big villain, who was just let free to wander).
- Overall, I think the book could have been really good, but the plot was just going in too many directions and not really being tied together. The beginning of the book I loved, but the rest of it I just wasn't a fan of.
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PS. Read trigger warnings before-hand. There was quite a bit of abuse and sexual assault
- I really loved the start of the book! The beginning was so strong, and it really pulled you in and got you invested, but pretty much the minute she got to Kestrin's kingdom it just fell off the rails for me. Alyrra (aka Thorn) went from being this strong character to someone who was kind of selfish and just let bad things happen to people because she didn't want to have to be princess.
- There wasn't really much of a plot for the middle of the book, it was just an internal monologue/struggle of Thorn. She would be mad that bad things were happening and that royalty wasn't doing anything about it, but she was literally doing the same thing by not trying to become princess again.
- There was magic and mages in this world, and it comes up quite a bit in the beginning, but then nothing happens with it. It just kind of exists in the world but never really gets explained or used
- There were just a lot of things that were happening in the middle of the book that didn't actually add anything to the overall plot and just felt like fluff.
- Not going to lie, the ending REALLY annoyed me. It was set up to be so cool, and then the final confrontation is literally a conversation and then the villain never faces any consequences for what she's done and only her underlings are punished. And that was the end of the story. It just didn't give me any closure in the story and felt incredibly unfair to the underlings (who, even though they did bad things, were ultimately just pawns of the big villain, who was just let free to wander).
- Overall, I think the book could have been really good, but the plot was just going in too many directions and not really being tied together. The beginning of the book I loved, but the rest of it I just wasn't a fan of.
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PS. Read trigger warnings before-hand. There was quite a bit of abuse and sexual assault