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readeatgamerepeat 's review for:
The Crowns of Croswald
by D.E. Night
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Just a note: Thanks to the publisher for giving me an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review, this did not impact my review and all thoughts and opinions are my own :)
Okay so, unfortunately, I have quite mixed feelings about this book, I will preface this with saying that I liked this book, but there were just a few gripes that I couldn't really get over. I will start with the things I liked: I loved the characters and the world building. The main character Ivy is very fun to follow through her adventures, and the mystery around here was just really fun. The world building was really well done and the descriptions of the places and buildings and the sensations Ivy was going through was really vivid and I felt really immersed in the book. The magic is very unique and I can't really think of anything I read that is similar. I also really liked the relationships between the characters, and the dynamics between the royals and the scriveners, I dearly loved all the characters and the school setting felt very real to me.
This is also were some of my gripes start unfortunately, I will preface things I'm saying with it happens occasionally, and because parts of the book are so strong the fact that they jolt you out of the story feels even more severe. So just to emphasize, both of these points are minor - they didn't make me dislike the book, I just felt more meh about it by the end?
So one thing that personally kinda took me out of the story where there were these random comments about fat characters sprinkled throughout the book where there were just a few characters who were described as fat and then were all just...either bad or evil or just stupid and incompetent - and like yea it does happen in literature and it doesn't happen that often but it happened often enough to notice and feel weird about the descriptions. This book was just so kind and delightful throughout that I didn't really expect it and it jolted me out of the story the few times that it did happen. That leads me to my second gripe which did end up leading me to lower my rating, which is that there were 0 consequences for Ivy. Everything always turns out great for her, and when she does get in trouble and there is supposed to be some inconvenience there it is sort of glossed over and ignored. The writing can be a little jumpy which in general I don't mind, but the jumps were basically used in a way to not talk about the inconveniences Ivy could experience and on the other end of that, they also mean that we don't really get shown how Ivy earns any of the things she is said to have earned by various adults. There were just a few moments where I was like "what happened to this?" or "When did this happen?" and it just happened enough times that I was a little confused.
Okay so, unfortunately, I have quite mixed feelings about this book, I will preface this with saying that I liked this book, but there were just a few gripes that I couldn't really get over. I will start with the things I liked: I loved the characters and the world building. The main character Ivy is very fun to follow through her adventures, and the mystery around here was just really fun. The world building was really well done and the descriptions of the places and buildings and the sensations Ivy was going through was really vivid and I felt really immersed in the book. The magic is very unique and I can't really think of anything I read that is similar. I also really liked the relationships between the characters, and the dynamics between the royals and the scriveners, I dearly loved all the characters and the school setting felt very real to me.
This is also were some of my gripes start unfortunately, I will preface things I'm saying with it happens occasionally, and because parts of the book are so strong the fact that they jolt you out of the story feels even more severe. So just to emphasize, both of these points are minor - they didn't make me dislike the book, I just felt more meh about it by the end?
So one thing that personally kinda took me out of the story where there were these random comments about fat characters sprinkled throughout the book where there were just a few characters who were described as fat and then were all just...either bad or evil or just stupid and incompetent - and like yea it does happen in literature and it doesn't happen that often but it happened often enough to notice and feel weird about the descriptions. This book was just so kind and delightful throughout that I didn't really expect it and it jolted me out of the story the few times that it did happen. That leads me to my second gripe which did end up leading me to lower my rating, which is that there were 0 consequences for Ivy. Everything always turns out great for her, and when she does get in trouble and there is supposed to be some inconvenience there it is sort of glossed over and ignored. The writing can be a little jumpy which in general I don't mind, but the jumps were basically used in a way to not talk about the inconveniences Ivy could experience and on the other end of that, they also mean that we don't really get shown how Ivy earns any of the things she is said to have earned by various adults. There were just a few moments where I was like "what happened to this?" or "When did this happen?" and it just happened enough times that I was a little confused.