A review by megancmahon
The Binding by Bridget Collins

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book took about a hundred pages to get going, but once it did I was totally hooked. The fantasy aspect of this was fascinating and required a big shift for me - the worldbuilding required the reader to see books as a violation of someone's emotional privacy, and it was very strange for me to imagine books as a bad thing. I liked it, though! The love story was also beautiful and heartbreaking, and I fell in love with Emmett fast.

My two points of contention are that I wish there hadn't been rather so much violence against women, and that I would have loved a deeper dive into the fantasy worldbuilding alongside the love story. However, this book was totally unputdownable once the first hundred pages had gone by, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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