shostakofish 's review for:

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

2.5

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I had heard a lot of really good things about this book so maybe my expectations were too high? It's a solid enough subversion, but it's subverting a genre that hasn't really been played straight for going on 20 years now. 
Honestly I'm shocked this is in "General Audience" rather than middle grade and I kept going back to double check that I hadn't missed a tag somewhere.

It's not that it's bad writing or anything, but the only thing that really makes it not a middle grade book is some graphic-ish violence against monsters, but nothing watership down or warrior cats kids cant handle