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A review by leamaura
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
4.0
Reading this book, I felt like I was learning about the origins of the genre. I loved the epic vibe it gave me. Since the book has this older writing style, and being English my second language, I also had to look up for some words, but I enjoyed the reading anyway after picking up the pace.
The main defects of this book can be condensed in three points:
- The longest digression in history: really, I was around 30% through the book (percentage given by my kindle), and I started the book again because I thought I missed the point where the timelines joined again. Spoiler: it happened around 43%
- When did that love story happen? Again, I'm not sure it's a language gap, but one moment she was dying, the moment after she was very, very close with Luthen. And realized in that same moment she also loves Tor. It was confusing.
- Arein has quite some judgment defects, apparently the only reason she didn't die from them is because she had this other great destiny to fulfill.
So, why giving it this high a rating?
Because I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I STILL LOVED READING ALL OF IT. I actually got a bit emotional reading how she would treasure both loves, which were different and both true. That very very long digression was an interesting story in itself, and as it finally closed I still gasped. I constantly disagreed with Aerin's stubbornness, still cheered for her while she healed (although, I'm quite sure she should have been quite old at the end of the book by all the time she had to wait to be able to move on to the next step in her glorious journey).
In the end, it's a book you love in its defects.
The main defects of this book can be condensed in three points:
- The longest digression in history: really, I was around 30% through the book (percentage given by my kindle), and I started the book again because I thought I missed the point where the timelines joined again. Spoiler: it happened around 43%
- When did that love story happen? Again, I'm not sure it's a language gap, but one moment she was dying, the moment after she was very, very close with Luthen. And realized in that same moment she also loves Tor. It was confusing.
- Arein has quite some judgment defects, apparently the only reason she didn't die from them is because she had this other great destiny to fulfill.
So, why giving it this high a rating?
Because I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I STILL LOVED READING ALL OF IT. I actually got a bit emotional reading how she would treasure both loves, which were different and both true. That very very long digression was an interesting story in itself, and as it finally closed I still gasped. I constantly disagreed with Aerin's stubbornness, still cheered for her while she healed (although, I'm quite sure she should have been quite old at the end of the book by all the time she had to wait to be able to move on to the next step in her glorious journey).
In the end, it's a book you love in its defects.