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Faebound
by Saara El-Arifi
adventurous
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Respectfully, I hated this. Nothing about this book worked for me. Magic drums that shoot people? Make it make sense. An Obeah? Still not sure what the heck one looks like… silver eyes and a tuft of fur on its back? Sounds ghastly. They are fighting an endless war because??? Because they all think they’re better than each other? To make sunlight or something somehow? Literally no clue what the stakes were here and it seemed like they weren’t really sure either.
The characters were flat and uninteresting at best and most were down right unlikeable. I HATED Lettle. What a hot headed selfish brat. She read like a 15 year old but I think she was meant to be in her late 20s. The romances gave nothing. Lettle and Rayan in particular had zero chemistry and the majority of their interactions were just her being a brat while he repeated her name over and over. She must be really hot because she has no other redeeming qualities.
The strangest part was that the author chose to end the book by transferring so much power to a male character. I felt like she spent the entire book trying to cultivate “strong” female characters and then majorly diminished them all with one singular event. As a reader I wasn’t unhappy with that particular turn of events, but it seemed like it ran counter to what the author was trying to accomplish. If you want my honest opinion, I think this book was unfairly boosted because it featured diverse characters. It was not even remotely deserving of the hype that preceded it.
This is of course only my opinion. Feel free to subject yourself to this book if you are like me and you must decide for yourself. 😅
The characters were flat and uninteresting at best and most were down right unlikeable. I HATED Lettle. What a hot headed selfish brat. She read like a 15 year old but I think she was meant to be in her late 20s. The romances gave nothing. Lettle and Rayan in particular had zero chemistry and the majority of their interactions were just her being a brat while he repeated her name over and over. She must be really hot because she has no other redeeming qualities.
The strangest part was that the author chose to end the book by transferring so much power to a male character. I felt like she spent the entire book trying to cultivate “strong” female characters and then majorly diminished them all with one singular event. As a reader I wasn’t unhappy with that particular turn of events, but it seemed like it ran counter to what the author was trying to accomplish. If you want my honest opinion, I think this book was unfairly boosted because it featured diverse characters. It was not even remotely deserving of the hype that preceded it.
This is of course only my opinion. Feel free to subject yourself to this book if you are like me and you must decide for yourself. 😅