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hollypeckitt 's review for:
Spellbook of the Lost and Found
by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Eerie, unsettling, and a new, more sinister kind of magic than anything else in YA.
Certainly an interesting read with great LGBTQ and ethnic representation, but Spellbook of the Lost and Found wasn't amazing. Simplistic writing, yet the imagery coarsing throughout was especially beautiful, and I loved the references to classics and older literature.
However, this wasn't without flaws. The consistent pattern of naming virtually all the characters after trees and plants took away from the story. It's a minor thing, but it just seems a bit juvenile to name a cast of 8 main characters with the nature-based names in the same damn book. The major initial twist in the book threw me off entirely and was brilliant, but I feel like all the other twists that followed were meant to be taken the same way and yet were easily predictable. Nevertheless, a great read.
Certainly an interesting read with great LGBTQ and ethnic representation, but Spellbook of the Lost and Found wasn't amazing. Simplistic writing, yet the imagery coarsing throughout was especially beautiful, and I loved the references to classics and older literature.
However, this wasn't without flaws. The consistent pattern of naming virtually all the characters after trees and plants took away from the story. It's a minor thing, but it just seems a bit juvenile to name a cast of 8 main characters with the nature-based names in the same damn book. The major initial twist in the book threw me off entirely and was brilliant, but I feel like all the other twists that followed were meant to be taken the same way and yet were easily predictable. Nevertheless, a great read.