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racheleanne06 's review for:
The Once and Future Queen
by Clara O'Connor
DID NOT FINISH: 25%
DNFED AT 25%
I decided to DNF this book at 25% for a few reasons.
1. This book is problematic, and after scanning reviews it seems like this only gets worse.
2. The relationships between the characters are toxic, Devyn is constantly belittling Cassandra, yet Cassandra is all over him anyway.
3. Talking of Cassandra and Devyn, these are two very unlikable characters. Devyn is rude and condescending, constantly calling Cassandra ‘little girl’ or ‘princess’. And Cassandra is naïve, and very immature. If the book hadn’t told me these characters were in their 20s I would have thought they were somewhere in the region of 14-16.
4. Another thing I really disliked was the insta-love at the start. The premise was interesting and the idea of the book was promising, but this didn’t really kick in (except one small scene) until at least 80 pages or so into the book. O’Connor spent the rest of the time building a forced and toxic relationship between Cassandra and Devyn… I really wished she had stuck to the world building and plot instead because we were then given a tonne of info-dumping to make up for it.
All in all, this book had so much potential, and so much of that potential was wasted. I am disappointed, but seeing how toxic this book gets later on when it comes to women and relationships I am not going to regret bailing out when I did.
I decided to DNF this book at 25% for a few reasons.
1. This book is problematic, and after scanning reviews it seems like this only gets worse.
2. The relationships between the characters are toxic, Devyn is constantly belittling Cassandra, yet Cassandra is all over him anyway.
3. Talking of Cassandra and Devyn, these are two very unlikable characters. Devyn is rude and condescending, constantly calling Cassandra ‘little girl’ or ‘princess’. And Cassandra is naïve, and very immature. If the book hadn’t told me these characters were in their 20s I would have thought they were somewhere in the region of 14-16.
4. Another thing I really disliked was the insta-love at the start. The premise was interesting and the idea of the book was promising, but this didn’t really kick in (except one small scene) until at least 80 pages or so into the book. O’Connor spent the rest of the time building a forced and toxic relationship between Cassandra and Devyn… I really wished she had stuck to the world building and plot instead because we were then given a tonne of info-dumping to make up for it.
All in all, this book had so much potential, and so much of that potential was wasted. I am disappointed, but seeing how toxic this book gets later on when it comes to women and relationships I am not going to regret bailing out when I did.