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A review by clingingontobooks
The Prince of Prohibition by Marilyn Marks
3.0
Why there were faeries in 1920s NYC was actually really well explained. That was my biggest hesitation with this book. I really liked how the book started in a farm town in Georgia so you got to see the less common faeires too.
The overarching plot was very cool and pretty unique because you really don't find stories where faeires are living with humans in modern day. The start was intriguing and the ending was so good! But almost nothing happened in the middle, it was pretty painful. The summary compares the book to ACOTAR. But this is the most like ACOTAR book I've read. The MMC appearance wise is very similar to Rhys except for the eyes. His friends are the IC with some of their roles swapped around. Honestly the FMC's brother was the character I found most interesting even though none of the characters like him. I don't think he has an ACOTAR equivalent, it probably helped that he felt like an original character. There were a lot of scenes where I could draw a parallel to ACOTAR. The plot was very different from ACOTAR so these scenes detracted rather than added to the story. The weakest part was the characters. There was so much telling about them rather than showing.
I'll most likely continue this series because I want to see the plot and characters developed further and hopefully the next books won't use ACOTAR as a crutch.
The overarching plot was very cool and pretty unique because you really don't find stories where faeires are living with humans in modern day. The start was intriguing and the ending was so good! But almost nothing happened in the middle, it was pretty painful. The summary compares the book to ACOTAR. But this is the most like ACOTAR book I've read. The MMC appearance wise is very similar to Rhys except for the eyes. His friends are the IC with some of their roles swapped around. Honestly the FMC's brother was the character I found most interesting even though none of the characters like him. I don't think he has an ACOTAR equivalent, it probably helped that he felt like an original character. There were a lot of scenes where I could draw a parallel to ACOTAR. The plot was very different from ACOTAR so these scenes detracted rather than added to the story. The weakest part was the characters. There was so much telling about them rather than showing.
I'll most likely continue this series because I want to see the plot and characters developed further and hopefully the next books won't use ACOTAR as a crutch.